Airbnb·Software Engineer

Airbnb Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

United StatesPosted Nov 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first round was an HR screen where I was told the main technical part wouldn’t have SWE-level coding questions and would focus more on problem solving.

That set my expectations, but when the tech screen started, I was given a “hard” LeetCode-style problem and it felt like a very one-sided conversation. There was no real communication or collaboration, and the interviewer couldn’t really follow what I was doing because they seemed more comfortable in a different language than what I was using to explain my approach.

As I worked through it, they kept nitpicking small, trivial details. The whole vibe was that they had an expected answer in front of them and were trying to see whether my solution matched it, not whether I could reason through

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