I applied online. I interviewed at Airbnb (San Francisco, CA) in Apr 2018
Interview
They first ask you to work on a home assignment. It took me about 8 hours to finish it. They reviewed and said I did very well on it and invited onsite. Onsite interviews are extremely easy and don't really test your knowledge of data science or machine learning. Everyone who watched the whole Andrew Ng course is already overqualified for the interview. After the onsite interview, I got a feedback that I don't have a product vision (there were no questions about it at all during the interview) and low modeling skills (so, why did they say I did well on home assignment if they think so?).
My impression is that they use really outdated technologies like tfidf and logistic regression. Don't recommend to go there if you want to work on state of the art ML.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Airbnb (San Francisco, CA) in Aug 2017
Interview
They give me a take-home challenge to finish within 48 hours. It's an experimental design and asks me to analyze the data. They are looking for suggestions for evaluating the future of this change.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How can you report the statistical results to a non-statistician staff.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Airbnb (Hyderābād) in May 2016
Interview
Interview is very cool. Asked the good topics. The recruiters are very selective. If you have talent then you can get a job. Make sure certificates are not only the thing that will help it, its the talent that helps you.