Airbnb reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(2,376 total reviews)
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Brian Chesky

85% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

Airbnb has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 2,376 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Airbnb employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
Aug 21, 2016
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Pros

Decent pay, good benefits and perks, travel coupon, awesome coworkers

Cons

DEAD END JOB. There is nothing I want to be promoted to within customer service and getting out of customer service is nearly impossible, especially if you don't want to move to the god-forsaken city of San Francisco. I started working here because I really believed in what Airbnb stands for and the service it is providing to the world, but it turns out that "belonging"is just their overt mission. In actually, Airbnb is like every other mega cooperation - focused on making more and more money for billionaires. Over the past year a number of our perks have been chipped away at and office culture is plummeting - right now everyone I talk to in the Portland office wants to quit. Additionally, every since we got a new CFO - who on his first visit to the Portland office called Bernie Sanders a crazy person (way to know your audience, dude), the belt has been tightened more and more one what resources we have access to to solve our customers problems. The metrics we are held to were raised significantly right before I (and a bunch of other people) got hired. So there are a bunch of longer-tenured employees in this office who were promoted quickly within their first year of working here because their "excellence" was based on much lower standards than newer employees are held to. Now it's nearly impossible to get promoted. They introduced sick time last year (it used to be a part of our PTO - 15 days for sick and vacation AND no holidays off) as being unlimited, and then about a month or two ago backtracked and said it was never meant to be unlimited and actually we only get 40 hours of sick time a year. This was announced mid-year after many people had already used that much time up because they had been under the assumption that it was unlimited. Our managers tried to tell us it was never unlimited, which is frankly a bunch of BS.

5.0
Feb 11, 2015

Airbnb employee from the early days

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The employee experience at Airbnb has improved over the last year and I believe it will keep getting better. I started as an hourly employee and the company has rewarded me for hard work, creativity, and ongoing contributions by allowing and encouraging me to work in a variety of roles. I've been able to learn from multiple teams and mentors and that has strengthened my cross-functional skills. The company also encourages travel and they help employees offset the cost. Additionally, I'm constantly encouraged to take ownership of my primary role within the company and I feel like a business owner within the business. I feel very valued as an employee here!

Cons

I do wish that employees could work remotely more, and not just under special circumstances. But I understand why we can't. I also think there's some managers within the company that still "look down upon" those who strive for work-life balance. They need to stop that or people, really quality employees, will leave.

3.0
Jul 5, 2018
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Pros

Smart, mission-driven, committed employees. Beautiful physical work environment. Amazing food. Interesting, challenging work.

Cons

Chaotic, undisciplined decision-making. Grueling pace. Too little emphasis on hiring and developing great leaders. The executive team lacks cohesiveness. Managers are not held accountable for poor leadership behaviors.

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