Airbnb Senior Software Engineer: coding, SQL and culture interviews

1. Online Test

• Data structures and algorithms round but with questions I had never seen efore. The first was was about DAG path scoring which I used dynamic progreamming to solve. Because I was able to solve that one quickly they asked me another about the minimum cost which I also solved with dynamic programming so definitely practice it.

2. Hiring Manager Round

• This round focused heavily on my previous experience and where I had taken leader ship on projects. The questions that I can remember they asked were:

  • Example of a project where I took ownership

  • Time when I had to balance short term deliverables with long term customer satisfaction

  • Project where I raised the quality bar

3. 2 Technical Rounds

• This was a very intense round mainly focused on general coding and problem solving skills. The first interview was very focused on fundamentals like coding in design patterns and OOP. The next round was more around problem solving and questions in SQL and Java.

4. Cultural Interview

• This round was all about the companies values and seeing how you aligned with them so be sure to have read them so you know what they are looking to hear.

5. HR round - HR questions

• Nothing to prepare for this, it was more casual as they had already decided to make me the offer!