Growing pains that seem to go on forever
Growing pains that seem to go on forever
A great mission, a dedicated CEO, good compensation, and interesting engineering work can be found.
Really bad management at all layers. Technically immature and bad tech debt decisions will affect the company for years. Concerned about poor leadership / toxic orgs.
Hire more experienced technical leaders and listen to them.
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I was referred by a friend and then contacted by a recruiter. He scheduled the phone interview for a couple of days later. The interview experience was really bad. The interviewer had a thick accent; he was Chinese, and I found it a bit hard to unde
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Started with an online assessment, then a phone screen with two coding questions. This was followed by an onsite with two coding questions, one architecture design question, and one experience/project discussion. Finally, there was a cross-functional
Software Engineer
This was one bad experience. I have interviewed at many places—big and small companies—and the experience at Airbnb is easily the worst. I applied online, and HR called to schedule a phone interview. We went back and forth, and they could not intervi
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San Francisco, California, United StatesFebruary 1, 2017I was referred by a friend and then contacted by a recruiter. He scheduled the phone interview for a couple of days later. The interview experience was really bad. The interviewer had a thick accent; he was Chinese, and I found it a bit hard to unde
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San Francisco, California, United StatesJuly 1, 2019Started with an online assessment, then a phone screen with two coding questions. This was followed by an onsite with two coding questions, one architecture design question, and one experience/project discussion. Finally, there was a cross-functional
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San Francisco, California, United StatesApril 1, 2015This was one bad experience. I have interviewed at many places—big and small companies—and the experience at Airbnb is easily the worst. I applied online, and HR called to schedule a phone interview. We went back and forth, and they could not intervi
