Airbnb

Software Engineer Interview Experience - United States

September 26, 2025

Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I had a terrible experience interviewing with Airbnb.

Each step in the process took over a month, and by the end, I lost all interest.

My recruiter was unresponsive and unhelpful. The engineers interviewing me were disengaged and uninterested.

Questions

signed an NDA, but standard data structures and algorithms.

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 189 interview experiences for the Airbnb Software Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

14%

Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive39%

Neutral25%

Negative36%

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

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