Phone screening round started with general introduction and then I was given the programming question. Overall good experience. The interviewer was nice, and helpful along the way. However, I felt the question was slightly advanced, and took more time than allotted especially if you are doing the question for the first time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Write a program to check a string is a palindrome.
2. Given a list of words, find the word pairs that when concatenated form a palindrome.
Recruiter Screen (30m): High-level team and project overview.Tech Screen (45m): Simple coding question followed by a diffcult follow-up. Time is very tight, so implement the first part quickly and focus on making your code easily extensible for the follow-up requirements.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
An OOD style or implementation exstensive coding question. Logic is simple, no algorithm involved.
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
Airbnb interviews FAQs
Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Airbnb with 3.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 41% positive. To compare, the company-average is 44% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 21 days to get hired, when considering 197 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Airbnb overall takes an average of 29 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Airbnb as a Software Engineer according to 197 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 44%
One on one interview: 21%
Skills test: 11%
Presentation: 8%
Personality test: 6%
Group panel interview: 5%
Background check: 2%
Other: 2%
Drug test: 1%
IQ intelligence test: 0%
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