I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Airbnb (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2016
Interview
A recruiter reached out to me after I applied online. The process took about 2 months. It was one phone screen, and I heard back the next day. Then two back to back skype calls were scheduled about a week later. I heard back that I made it to the next round within the next week. Then I went onsite where I was given two interview questions. I did the interviews on my laptop onsite and they seemed like classic interview questions. After the two onsite interviews, I got coffee with one of the devs there and got to ask all my questions about the office. Then I had two culture interviews where I was asked more classic interview questions from people who worked in other divisions of airbnb like marketing and the such.
After about a week I got an email asking to schedule a phone call, and during the call my recruiter told me that I got the offer.
The offer was honestly more than I could have ever asked for and the benefits were great, but the job itself sounded tedious so I ended up going with another company,
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write code to solve: palindrome pairs, justify, implement a queue, match pairs with similar preferences, so on and so forth. They were very difficult problems algorithm wise so be sure to listen to the person interviewing you and practice beforehand.
I applied online. I interviewed at Airbnb (New York, NY) in Dec 2016
Interview
1 phone interview & 1 skype interview before onsite interviews consisting of 2 cross-functional and 2 technical interviews. They stress a lot on culture fit but do not ask until onsite interviews. All interviews prior to onsite for me were literally the interviewer introducing themselves and diving into solving the problem on coderpad. They didn't ask anything about me as they say they want to give as much time to solve the problem. Focus on getting your solution running correctly and bug-free within the time frame they give you.
Onsite:
The 2 cross-functional interviews were basically fun conversations not related to the role - aimed to see culture fit/aligned mission with company. Was asked to bring my laptop and have IDE prepared. No white board coding - they want to see running code on laptop.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Palindrome Pairs, questions on string manipulation
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Airbnb in Sep 2016
Interview
The recruiter was very friendly and prompt with their reply. Scheduled the phone interview and the interviewer was very helpful and patient too. He made sure I understood the question and gave me extra time too.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given Array of Arrays sort them in ascending order.