J'ai postulé en ligne. J'ai passé un entretien chez Airbnb
Entretien
Applied online. Got contacted back by a recruiter 2 days after for scheduling a technical phone interview. Interviewed twice. Both of my interviewers were foreign (asian, probably chinese) and had hard accents to understand. I had to ask them more than once to repeat what they were saying. The first question was fair, the second was simply poorly worded. Interviewer called ~30 minutes late. I was annoyed by how interviewers simply copy and pasted questions from a question bank and asked me to read it. Even after wasting half of the interview trying to understand the question, given inconsistent variable naming, and a prompt with unclear examples. Even my second interviewer admitted that the question should be rephrased.
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Questions were not hard. They tried to take regular brain teaser questions and make them seem practical but putting on a fictitious context (Airbnb has this problem...).
J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 3 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Airbnb en oct. 2019
Entretien
One coding challenge Leetcode Med-Hard. They there are 2 back to back interviews via coderpad video call. Then a culture fit. I didn't make it past the video coding interviews.
J'ai postulé via un recruteur. Le processus a pris 5 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Airbnb en sept. 2018
Entretien
Consisted of a 1 hour HackerRank, 2 back to back technical Skype interviews, and 1 culture fit interview. The HackerRank was pretty challenging and time constrained. I would recommend studying up on algorithms, keeping your composure, and planning out your thought process before typing as fast as you can. The Skype interviews were difficult, but not as impossible as some of the other stories I've read online. To study for this, I would recommend beefing up your knowledge on graph theory and studying traversals / search algorithms. The culture fit interview was a normal, less conversational behavioral interview. For this one, just try and be yourself and prepare like you would for a normal behavioral interview. Definitely doesn't hurt to prepare for questions you'll 100% get like "Why Airbnb?" and "What was your last Airbnb experience? How was it?"
Questions d'entretien [1]
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1 unique algorithm question, 2 graph questions (DFS and tree traversal), and all the normal behavioral questions
J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 4 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Airbnb (San Francisco, CA) en févr. 2018
Entretien
Software engineering questions were all leetcode. Cultural questions were interesting. The systems design was a fun exercise. Their deep dive into the project interview is odd to me. Not sure what it shows to deep dive into it since people can fake it easily especially if they are quite the talker.
Despite all the mishaps on AirBnb's side, I got through the day. First mishap was that the first remote interview was cut off for about 5-10 mins due to technical issues and had to use the recruiter's laptop to continue. Second mishap was during the first coding interview, we could not figure out how to make the supplied mac mini work, so that delayed the interview schedule. Final mishap and the biggest, was that a lunch interviewer did not show up which caused a architecture interview to be canceled, which meant that I would have had to come in a second time to rectify that... Imagine if I had not come into an interview...
This is not the experience I expected from AirBnb under any circumstance. Interviews are stressful enough. I do not believe I would have come in for a second architecture interview had I been invited as enough of my time (8 hours) was used already and I have other onsite interviews.