I applied online. I interviewed at Airbnb (San Francisco, CA) in Feb 2019
Interview
Two phone screens. None of the questions were from Leetcode. In my first phone screen I coded up the solution but got stuck in solving the edge cases, so probably got passed on for a second phone screen.
Onsite was 6 rounds + lunch. Two of those interviews were culture fit interviews. No prep needed for the culture rounds, really. Just be yourself and chat candidly and you'll be fine. Two rounds were coding rounds, which involved writing the solution in an ide, compiling it and testing it against their test cases. The questions were pretty straight forward. There was a system design round and an experience round. The system design round was like any other system design round, but with less fluff about technologies to use and more about identifying bottlenecks and improving them and getting the data model right. I really enjoyed the system design round. The experience round was just me explaining one of my most recent projects.
Overall, very good experience. I had a lot of fun talking to the engineers there.
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.
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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,