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Backend Engineer Interview Experience - Portland, Oregon

September 1, 2015
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

There were emails, then a phone interview, then a technical interview. During this, I sat in a tiny room and was supposed to write a primitive CSV parser in half an hour while a man watched me. It was pretty uncomfortable.

I ended up feeling too much anxiety to concentrate at all; I just wanted to leave.

I'm marking the interview as difficult, but it was difficult as structured – the questions were fine. The expectation that I'd be able to do anything intelligent in that tiny room with a man looking over my shoulder was not so great, for me. There wasn't even a desk. I could either hold the laptop up so he could see it while sitting in an armchair, or hunch over an unusually short counter.

Questions

Lots of personal questions, actually. I can't recall any specific technical questions.

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Airbnb's interview process for their Backend Engineer roles in Portland, Oregon is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

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Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Airbnb's Backend Engineer interview process in Portland, Oregon.

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