I applied through a recruiter. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Airbnb (San Francisco, CA) in Sep 2016
Interview
I was contacted by a recruiter. I has only one phone interview. Your program is expected to compile and run on the phone interview.
In the onsite interview.
- People are really nice and so is the office.
- Coding interview is difficult but manageable. Make sure your code compiles and runs.
- I was able to write it but unable to get to execute my code. - hence the reject.
- Architecture interview. 2 of them. About distributed systems.
- One experience interview.
Maybe as a tip - you should use the language you are most comfortable in. Set up your IDE properly or use a online code editor like coderpad. Don't waste time where you have to import packages and stuff. Just concentrate on getting your code running!
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Airbnb in Sep 2016
Interview
The recruiter responded very quickly and the interview questions were around average difficulty. One of the questions I got asked was on Glassdoor and after asking around to other people who interviewed at Airbnb, it seems like they got the same questions. They did not ask about my background or any other technical questions, it was just the 1 coding question per interview (I had 3 Skype calls that were 45 minutes each). Recruiters are very friendly, but the interviewers did not seem to want to be there and it was hard to understand them.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Airbnb in Apr 2016
Interview
4 interviews. Very transparent. The whole process took about a month from the initial contact. I applied through a recruiter and they were very helpful throughout. My interviewers were completely different. On one hand I had a new grad who understood the struggle of applying to such a successful start up. And on the other hand I had an engineer who left a luxurious job at google to grill me on HashMaps.