The interview process was quite awkward and thrown together at the last moment. In all my years of working in this industry, I've never experienced anything like it.

Right off the bat, I felt that from a diversity standpoint, I was denied the moment we turned our cameras on. They are clearly targeting a particular type of engineer, so don't expect any real diversity among your interviewers.

I found that nearly everyone I spoke with was extremely robotic in their responses. If you make a mistake early on, odds are you won't recover, because they won't clarify where the misunderstanding occurred.

My interview experiences were:

• The first was a code review challenge, but with no context to what I was looking to review.
• The second was a typical coding challenge, but within the context of a niche technology I had never used before.
• The third was a design interview, but most of what I wrote down was quickly removed by the interviewer, and the scope changed very frequently.

I asked questions regarding what it was like working there on the technical front, and the response I got was more about the distraction of the company's stock. I don't really know what to make of that.

In essence, there was a sense of toxicity present amongst the interviewers. Think of someone telling you that they worked at Google but got bored, so they came to Airbnb, yet won't tell you what they enjoy there. No one seemed happy—just technical elitists who were too stressed for time to be giving interviews.

I know they will get the talent they are looking for, but I didn't expect to have such a negative experience.

NDA - but expect rather unconventional processes thrown in with the ones you've been studying for. These may include:

• Reviewing build issues
• Code review processes
• Design alongside a non-technical individual
• Code-specific gimmicks and niche issues
• Networking specifics

etc.