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      4.0

      77% would recommend to a friend

      (2,377 total reviews)
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      Brian Chesky

      85% approve of CEO

      65% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.2

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.1

      Culture & values

      4.1

      Compensation and benefits

      3.9

      Work/Life balance

      3.4

      Senior management

      3.4

      Career opportunities

      Airbnb has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 2,377 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Airbnb employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologia da informação industry (3.9 stars).

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      2K reviews
      5.0
      Aug 22, 2013

      Pretty good

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great atmosphere, lots of opportunity, still a small company. It's great being a part of such an exciting company. Every day is an adventure, and it's like nothing I've ever experienced.

      Cons

      The food is not very good. It's usually cold, and the vegetarian options aren't great. The foods better than Google, but not as good as Twitter. Being at such a young, immature company means the benefits are young and immature. The salary is okay, but I still took a 40% pay cut to join this company. Hopefully the stock options will be worth something some day.

      5.0
      Jul 15, 2013

      Exceptional team, incredible product. Proud to work here.

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Team Camaraderie: It's a really supportive environment, both within my particular team and at large. I feel a genuine sense that people want me to succeed and in turn I love when others have victories. It's a very ego-less group here, and we all root for each other. I definitely feel like my coworkers make me work harder, but in a really healthy (read: not cutthroat) way. Energy, Creativity and Quirkiness: It's a very design-centric company (probably most largely influenced by our founders, who come from RISD), and we value aesthetics, quirkiness, and a light-hearted sense of humor. We laugh a lot, but still maintain a serious work ethic and professionalism; I think we're really lucky in that sense. Love of Product: Airbnb really doesn't hire people unless they are passionate about the product, its implications and its future. You can be off the charts in terms of brains, experience and technical skills, but if you come off as blase about what we do, you won't get hired. I think that really distinguishes us from other companies and ensures that we're all invested in the company's future, not just financially.

      Cons

      It's an extremely scrappy, lean place. If you like adventures, daily challenges and a constantly-changing environment, you'll love it here and excel. If you prefer knowing what to anticipate on a day to day basis, this probably isn't the place for you. What I've loved is that we're always looking to improve, or make our processes more efficient, and to grow personally, but that can be exhausting for some. Also, we're admittedly a quirky bunch, so to excel here you need to have a sense of humor, and

      4.0
      Jun 24, 2013

      Enjoyable, but deeply political

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Some of the best and most talented people I have ever worked with. The connections I made there will help me for the rest of my career, and I believe I made friends for life. The opportunity and experience I was offered to make a genuine contribution was far greater than I imagined when I accepted the position, and I really felt I made a difference to the company's direction. Fast-moving - although if you had been there for as long as myself (around 2 years), you could see the slow-down.

      Cons

      Hugely political. If you're friendly with the right people, regardless of how useless you are, or how well-known that fact is, you will be protected and rewarded disproportionately. I honestly felt like the harder you worked, the further you dropped in the pecking order. The startup vibe is completely dead. Airbnb is now a corporation. There is no such thing as a flat hierarchy anymore, whatever that was supposed to mean in the first place. None of the advertised perks are available to anyone outside of San Francisco Despite being a "people" company, many decisions have recently been made for completely the wrong reasons - and they're just plain stupid to the average bystander. It was very difficult to ever have full faith in the senior management team - in typical startup style, this was made up of mainly of 20-somethings with only a year or two of work-experience. In the past year, I noticed the average quality of new hires dropping significantly - to the point where several "IT specialists" were unable to understand BASIC IT principles. The "Culture" of Airbnb is regulary trampled all over by the senior management.

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