Dropped off resume at career fair got interview the next day but I did really bad in the interview so I'm not really sure if it'll go anywhere. Interviewers were nice and you got to choose the language you coded in which was super great.
I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Airbnb in Oct 2018
Interview
Expect multiple rounds of challenging (and interesting) problem solving questions. They are all coding questions but the problems aren't strictly algorithms/data structures and each involve more thinking/innovation than some more common questions that you may have seen. Airbnb expects you to write functional code - not just pseudocode or half-way functional code. Additionally you will need to interview with a non-engineer in a cross-functional interview to determine how well you will fit into the company culture/environment.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Write a solver for the mastermind board game. Requires communicating with a server that accepts as input your peg configuration and provides the output that the mastermind board game would give for that configuration.
Simulate pouring water over terrain, i.e. determine where some amount of water would settle given the terrain and a point to pour from. The terrain is represented as a 1-d list of integers that represented the height of the terrain at each index.
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Airbnb in Nov 2018
Interview
Timeline:
Applied sometime in late August or early September
2018-11-09 OA + Schedule technical interviews
2018-11-19 Two back-to-back interviews + Schedule a cross-functional interview
2018-11-28 Cross-functional interview
2018-12-03 Schedule a follow-up cross-functional interview
2018-12-06 Cross-functional interview
2018-12-10 Schedule a call with the recruiter
2018-12-14 Offer
2018-12-18 Official offer
The interviewers were nice. Recruiters were responsive.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A HackerRank coding question + Two technical interviews + Cross-Functional interview