I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Airbnb (New York, NY) in Nov 2016
Interview
I applied online and got a response the next day. Had my interview a week later and my interviewer started by saying he hasn't looked at my resume and will not ask about my background to give a non-biased evaluation. He then pasted the question into an online collaborative code editor and gave me some time to read and process the question. I talked through what I planned to do and 15 minutes later he said I can start coding. I admit I took much too long to write my code and about 40 minutes later (a total of 55 minutes have passed which is over the 45 minutes he was supposed to give me) he said I got most of the solution but was missing one thing. Then he let me ask a few questions about Airbnb. A week later I got a rejection from the recruiter.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Output list of strings representing a page of hostings given a list of CSV strings.
Pretty standard engineering interview. Recruiter call, technical interview, system design. They also had a code review interview that I had never seen before. I thought it was a little trickier than average, but not horrible. Sucks that if you don't move to the next round you can't reapply for a year.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about the tech stack you've worked with before
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Airbnb (San Francisco, CA) in Apr 2026
Interview
Submitted my application and the next day i received the coding assessment I did not speak to anyone it was all done online, Im still waiting to hear back on my results
I applied online. I interviewed at Airbnb in Mar 2026
Interview
Had hiring manager call but got reject after the interview. The interview was around my past experience in the current company. Talked about how I influence roadmap, handle escalations and architect team’s initiatives,