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Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

November 9, 2021
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The interview process was pretty terrible. I would suggest looking elsewhere or using this company for practice interviews (for other companies) if you want to leave with a positive experience, whether rejected or not.

I went all the way to the onsite interviews and was rejected via an automated email response, almost as if I was ghosted. To go through five interviews and be rejected by an automated response was pretty disrespectful, and I will never interview with them again because of this.

The first call I had was with a recruiter who was 20 minutes late. I had another recruiter who also didn’t seem to know what was going on.

From then on, I decided to use this interview process as practice for other companies.

Most of the interviewers were kind, but one did not speak at all for some reason. The interview was poorly conducted.

The onsite interviews were very long but not difficult. The recruitment process was very poorly conducted overall.

Look elsewhere.

Questions

Development round, algorithm round, bug fixing.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 81 interview experiences for the Airbnb Software Engineer role in San Francisco, California.

Success Rate

20%
Pass Rate

Airbnb's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in San Francisco, California is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive43%
Neutral22%
Negative35%

Candidates reported having mixed feelings for Airbnb's Software Engineer interview process in San Francisco, California.

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