Airtable·Software Engineer

Airtable Software Engineer interview experience

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San Francisco, CAPosted Dec 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with a long independent programming assignment instead of a typical phone screen or live challenge.

It took around five hours, and I was paid with a $200 gift card regardless of how it went. The next step was an onsite in San Francisco with six interviews in a single long day.

The mix stood out right away. I had a more practical algorithms/design-focused interview rather than the usual leetcode style. There were two systems design interviews that felt tied to the kinds of real problems Airtable worked on, plus a real-world coding interview on a laptop in a language of my choice. I also did a bug-hunting session in JavaScript—even though I didn’t have much JS experience—and the interviewer

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