Airbnb·Software Engineer

Airbnb Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Aug 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I got contacted by email for an iOS engineering role after an exploratory call, and then I went into a phone screen with an iOS-flavored coding problem.

The algorithm was fairly practical and not super LeetCode-y, which I appreciated because it felt closer to real work.

For the virtual onsite, there were four interviews. The first was a practical iOS coding task where they gave me an Xcode project and asked me to implement features. Then I had an interview about past projects where I needed to prepare visuals. After that, there was a systems design/architecture round using mocks for an iOS app, and I talked through how I’d implement the client side. The final interview involved both a designer and an engineer where we went through a Figma

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