The process was surprisingly much, much easier than a lot of the other companies I looked at, but I ultimately chose Airbnb because of the interesting problems they were solving and the culture. I will preface this that when speaking to the recruiters and engineers after I joined, they told me they are actively monitoring Glassdoor postings, and cracking down and making sure that minimal problems get repeated so that everyone has a fair chance. Engineers also each have their own few preferred problems so the pool of different problems is quite large. Very straight forward process. Technical phone screen, fairly practical question, standard string manipulation question. Got invited to the on-site the following week. Everyone was very friendly and it was after speaking to them that convinced me to accept. Two coding questions - straight forward again. I appreciate that they don’t ask hard LeetCode questions that you would never use in real life. Instead they asked practical, thoughtful problems. One was a command line interface that did some simple calculations - it was more about how appropriately you can model and structure your code based on the requirements, and less about hammering out an algorithm. The second was collaboratively building a message dispatch system with some boilerplate code. This one was quite fun. Never once was I asked about Big O, which I appreciate. Two core value interviews - very simple, just talk about yourself and what you like to do! It’s more for you to understand their company culture. Architecture - build a blog system, pretty easy. Make sure to have deeper levels of understandings for deadlocks and mutexes. Had to dig deep into my experience at my first job for this one! I would do some heavy reading in processes and threads before coming in. Experience - simple, just talk about your previous experience, highs and lows! The more honest the better. Received an offer within a week and right now couldn’t be happier!

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.