Airbnb

Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Jose, California

April 1, 2022

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Good, but I don't know why I failed. The onsite round had four parts:

Two coding questions
One system design
One project part
An interview with the manager

All the interviewers were good, except the second one.

Questions

Medium level LeetCode questions.

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 2 interview experiences for the Airbnb Software Engineer role in San Jose, California.

Success Rate

Pass Rate

Airbnb's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in San Jose, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive50%

Neutral50%

Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Airbnb's Software Engineer interview process in San Jose, California.

Airbnb Interview Questions

Combination Sum

Medium

Find all unique combinations of numbers from a given array that sum up to a specific target value. You can use the same number multiple times.

ArraysRecursion

Text Justification

Hard

Given a sequence of words and a line width, format the text to fit within the specified width. You must justify the text, distributing extra spaces evenly between words.

ArraysStringsTwo Pointers

Maximum Profit in Job Scheduling

Hard

You're given a list of jobs with start times, end times, and profits. Find the maximum profit you can obtain by scheduling a subset of jobs that don't overlap.

Dynamic ProgrammingBinary Search