I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Airbnb in Sep 2025
Interview
Absolute mess and a total waste of time.
I was contacted by a recruiter and presented with a front-end heavy software engineering role to interview for. The scheduling process was a nightmare with how broken their scheduling software is, the crummy interface, and the inconsistency in available times. The process was painfully slow as well.
When it came to the "onsite," just wow. While I had a couple great interviewers, the two interviews that actually mattered were a mess. The systems design interview didn't match the job nor their interview packet they gave you to prep with whatsoever, being more for a very niche devops role than for a full stack engineer especially a front end focused one. Then for the coding puzzle interview, which you get 45 minutes for, the interviewer not only showed up almost 10 minutes late, but took another almost 10 minutes to set up and find their interview question, but then struggled to actually explain that question as it was clear they didn't even understand the question and probably only skimmed it based on them contradicting their previous statements about the problem multiple times when I probed for details, then made disparaging statements towards my speed over how long I was taking as if I didn't spend the first half of the interview waiting to get started and was only about 5 minutes into the interview, saying I should be almost done by then.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Standard coding puzzle, but leetcode hard level instead of medium like most companies
Pretty standard engineering interview. Recruiter call, technical interview, system design. They also had a code review interview that I had never seen before. I thought it was a little trickier than average, but not horrible. Sucks that if you don't move to the next round you can't reapply for a year.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about the tech stack you've worked with before
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Airbnb (San Francisco, CA) in Apr 2026
Interview
Submitted my application and the next day i received the coding assessment I did not speak to anyone it was all done online, Im still waiting to hear back on my results
I applied online. I interviewed at Airbnb in Mar 2026
Interview
Had hiring manager call but got reject after the interview. The interview was around my past experience in the current company. Talked about how I influence roadmap, handle escalations and architect team’s initiatives,
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