Smart People, Legacy Systems
Smart People, Legacy Systems
- Very good engineering culture -- observe work-life balance.
- Lots of smart people around you -- 90% of them are senior and above.
- Have lots of world-leading technology.
- Good company reputation with strong financial stability.
- Lots of legacy systems – hard to make significant changes.
- High seniority people around you can mean fewer opportunities for growth.
- Components of one system spread across multiple teams make communication and speed difficult.
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Asked about data modeling questions: how to design different tables, how to partition data, and how to scale. Also asked to write SQL queries based on the previous questions. The coding interview asked simple coding questions, such as array manipulat
Staff Software Engineer
IndiaMay 1, 2024Horrible experience. I did well in all coding and system design rounds, but they rejected me because I could not write some Spring Boot code. 1. DSA round - top k with priority queue 2. DSA round - Nested Integers, LLD code for a robot for a home ap
Staff Software Engineer
Portland, Oregon, United StatesMarch 1, 2024The interview process at Airbnb for a Staff Software Engineer role was structured but fair. It started with a recruiter screen focused on background and motivations, followed by a technical phone screen with coding and system design questions. Onsi
Data Engineer
San Francisco, California, United StatesNovember 21, 2025Asked about data modeling questions: how to design different tables, how to partition data, and how to scale. Also asked to write SQL queries based on the previous questions. The coding interview asked simple coding questions, such as array manipulat
