Airbnb·Software Engineer

Airbnb Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

BengaluruPosted Jun 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The process started when I got an HR email about my application, even though I’d applied so long ago I’d forgotten about it.

The HR communication immediately felt unprofessional. They told me I’d be receiving two HackerRank links for sixty-minute tests, but I only got one.

I did the one assessment I received and completed everything correctly—100% of the test cases. When I replied that I’d finished, they sent a second link. I ran that one too, and even then I didn’t have a clean pass: I got 13 out of 17 test cases.

After following up again a week later, I got notified through the application portal that I was rejected within ten minutes of sending that message. The result felt abrupt, and the uneven testing

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