I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Airbnb in Oct 2019
Interview
A coding sample was sent to me to solve in HackerRank. I had an hour to complete it and you needed to satisfy 10 test cases. Not all are visible.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Koko loves to eat bananas. There are N piles of bananas, the i-th pile has piles[i] bananas. The guards have gone and will come back in H hours.
Koko can decide her bananas-per-hour eating speed of K. Each hour, she chooses some pile of bananas, and eats K bananas from that pile. If the pile has less than K bananas, she eats all of them instead, and won't eat any more bananas during this hour.
Koko likes to eat slowly, but still wants to finish eating all the bananas before the guards come back.
Return the minimum integer K such that she can eat all the bananas within H hours.
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Airbnb
Interview
Live coding. Four rounds. Two seperate rounds for 45 minutes. Last round two hours - two 45 minutes interviews back to back. They called me and expected me to be ready within a couple of days. They were not flexible at all with interviews and expected you to be ready at their command. Got to the last round and was rejected with no explenation as to why. Perfect example of showing that bigger companies only make their interviews accesible to those that do not have to work and are from elite schools. I was working and going to school. Despite knowing this they were not flexible at all. Each interview was a couple of days away from each other not giving me enough time to recuperate or study. I had great interviews in all four rounds but they rejected me with no reason after weeks of sacrifice.
Not worth your mental health.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Airbnb (San Francisco, CA) in Jul 2019
Interview
touch base after submitting my resume online on April and passed the first round of phone screen at the beginning of June and do onsite at the beginning of July. For onsite, two coding, one security architect design and one resume deep drive. There are no lunch for this onsite interview which is rare case for any onsite interview.
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