Airbnb reviews

When I first started at Airbnb, I was completely blown away. I felt like I'd been looking for a job like this all my life, and I could finally settle in to my work family environment. It's been a year now, and I don't feel like I belong anymore. Reasons for this: - Yes, you can bring your dog to work, but your name won't exist anymore. Your name will now be your "dog's name + mom/dad" - If you don't like going out all the time, and prefer to do your work and come home, not a good place for you. I'm an introvert at heart, and this is an extrovert workplace. It's expected that you go to happy hours, events, etc. - Your life outside of work is important, until metrics take over. When I first started, I was told my schedule could flex for my commitments outside of work. Now I have to leave early because they are strict with the 1 weekend day schedule. - If you need quiet to get work done, this is not the place for you. You are constantly surrounded by people either on the phones, or socializing, and it can get very loud and distracting.

- Data Engineers Are Treated As Second Class Citizens. - Blogs might give you the impression that there is fancy engineering or data science going on at Airbnb, but that is not true, with the exception of a few open source projects. We have a hard time attracting top data science talent relative to our peers. - Many managers are not technical enough to understand what we are doing, leads to a bungled performance review process. - Arrogant attitude that this is the best place to work and why would you want to work anywhere else. Not sure where we lost our humility along the journey... - Lots of red-tape, the speed and innovation at which things happen extremely slow. Generally people are risk averse