Candidatei-me por meio de recrutador(a). O processo levou mais de 1 semana. Fiz uma entrevista na empresa Airbnb (San Francisco, CA).
Entrevista
An Airbnb recruiter reached out. After an initial introductory phone call, they sent me the take-home assignment.
I spent 20 hours in this assignment to later be rejected with a generic email, and no further answers to my questions for feedback.
Perguntas de entrevista [1]
Pergunta 1
You need to complete the take-home assignment within 72 hours. You can only send a PDF, if you want to send them your code, you have to embed it within the PDF. All other companies I've interviewed with want you to send them your code.
Compared to those other companies' assignments, Airbnb's was much more on the statistical side, hypothesis testing mostly.
I took time off from work to complete this assignment and ended up spending about 20 hours over the course of 3 days. When I've put that much work and energy into an assignment, I've always passed.
Airbnb took over a week to respond to my submission, where I had to follow up with unresponsive recruiters.
When the answer finally came, it was a canned rejection email. I requested feedback that would help me do better next time. They never replied.
After this experience, I don't want to interview with them for another position, nor recommend this company to anyone on my network.
Rejection happens all the time and I don't expect to succeed in every interview; but I think candidates that have clearly put in the work, deserve at least some feedback, or a phone call.
Candidatei-me por meio de recrutador(a). O processo levou 6 semanas. Fui entrevistado pela Airbnb (San Francisco, CA) em jun. de 2025
Entrevista
Overall smooth interview process including combination of behavioral, coding, system design and research oriented questions. Through research oriented interviews you go through projects you have done and they ask questions about your work and then they propose an open problem and you should express your ideas. It is difficult to assess you performance on these interviews
Perguntas de entrevista [1]
Pergunta 1
Implement a simple encoding for a collection of strings
Candidatei-me online. Fui entrevistado pela Airbnb (Seattle, WA) em fev. de 2024
Entrevista
1. Behavioral-style phone call
2. Simple data exercise screener
3. Virtual onsite. Several rounds, including a prepared presentation, and a 2-part data analysis exercise. I think I flubbed the SQL part of that. I was frustrated about the presentation though. The instructions said to take no more than an hour prepping it (ok lol) and to keep it VERY short, and NOT to go as far as, say, simulating data to chart. I felt like I bent the rules to fit in more info, ideas, analysis, how I expect the results to look - a bit like a grant proposal - and then I got dinged for not further breaking their own instructions and making it yet more in depth. Oh well, no one said this process has to be fair. So, word to the wise: ignore their instructions and make your deck way meatier!
On the bright side I'm glad they gave feedback about which parts of the virtual onsite I flubbed. They were friendly and interesting to talk to. It mostly seemed like a process at least vaguely aligned with their hiring goals for the role, which is honestly more than I can say for most interview processes!
Perguntas de entrevista [1]
Pergunta 1
How would you analyze the effects of a major change to their product if it were not possible to run an A/B test?
Candidatei-me por indicação de um funcionário. O processo levou 2 semanas. Fiz uma entrevista na empresa Airbnb (San Francisco, CA).
Entrevista
reached out by recruiter, first round is live coding interview in hackerrank with two questions, one on data transformation and the other is writing pseudo code to call preprocessing and a classification model object and calculate variance of performance metric
Perguntas de entrevista [1]
Pergunta 1
one column in data frame is a string such as [1,2,3,4,5], convert it to average number in int format