Airbnb·Software Engineer

Airbnb Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview process felt uneven from the start.

We began by discussing a recent project in detail, and it came across as casual, with the interviewer seeming uninterested. Then the coding rounds hit, and that’s where things got unexpectedly rough.

During coding, I ran into a dependency-related question that I hadn’t seen in any of the interview experiences I’d prepared from. The interviewer interrupted and kept reminding me about things, which made it harder to stay in a flow state and just debug.

The system design round focused on designing a booking system, and there was also a code review of three pull requests. I had spent months

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