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Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience

July 1, 2017
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

A recruiter contacted me, and after that, we had the first of two phone interviews.

The second interview was with an Airbnb engineer. After introducing himself and stating he hadn't looked at my resume or my background, he mentioned we didn't have much time and proceeded to ask me a coding question.

That's right, he didn't let me introduce myself or anything, jumping straight to the coding exercise. At the end of the interview, he again said we didn't have time as he needed to go to another interview. I still pushed to at least have a chance to ask one question, which I did, but I felt pressure and honestly a little bit frustrated by the interviewer's lack of interest in me, my experience, my story, etc.

Questions

Implement a Queue class from scratch with an existing bug. The bug is that it cannot take more than 5 elements.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 20 interview experiences for the Airbnb Senior Software Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

10%
Pass Rate

Airbnb's interview process for their Senior Software Engineer roles in the United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive20%
Neutral15%
Negative65%

Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Airbnb's Senior Software Engineer interview process in United States.

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