Good benefits, terrible tech
Good benefits, terrible tech
As a company, Airbnb is an awesome place to work. Bunch of benefits, good salaries, stock options...
The company hired too many fresh grads, which ended up becoming managers and had no other experience than Airbnb.
That led to an immature technical background for the company's solutions (still running mainly on Rails after 10 years).
Also, add a lot of corporate management (coming from Google, IBM, Microsoft...) and you get the rewrite of the whole thing into Java. Pretty weird.
Subdivide the company into a smaller and independent business so you can achieve innovation.
Otherwise, you'll continue having to hire tons of devs to do simple tech that could be achieved with 1/3 of the current headcount.
Open more distributed engineering offices and create an SRE culture. The loading times everywhere other than the US are terrible.
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Senior Software Engineer
1. HR screen The HR asked about my experience and mentioned that their coding question is very difficult. So, we scheduled the first technical interview for two weeks later. 2. 1st technical interview Just the coding question, no more self-introduct
Senior Software Engineer
I received an email from a recruiter three months after applying. The next round was a 45-minute coding assessment. You have to be flawless to pass this stage. I figured out the hardest part of the problem by myself but needed a hint for the other
Senior Software Engineer
Interviewed with Airbnb and advanced to team matching. After talking with a few hiring managers, the recruiter went silent for months despite multiple follow-ups. Candidate experience matters, especially after investing time in interviews.
Senior Software Engineer
JapanJuly 18, 20251. HR screen The HR asked about my experience and mentioned that their coding question is very difficult. So, we scheduled the first technical interview for two weeks later. 2. 1st technical interview Just the coding question, no more self-introduct
Senior Software Engineer
United StatesMarch 18, 2025I received an email from a recruiter three months after applying. The next round was a 45-minute coding assessment. You have to be flawless to pass this stage. I figured out the hardest part of the problem by myself but needed a hint for the other
Senior Software Engineer
United StatesDecember 1, 2024Interviewed with Airbnb and advanced to team matching. After talking with a few hiring managers, the recruiter went silent for months despite multiple follow-ups. Candidate experience matters, especially after investing time in interviews.
