I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Airbnb (San Francisco, CA)
Interview
OK. I got call through referral and gave telephonic interview. The interviewer was late and call was very noisy and hard to understand, even after repeatedly saying it's hard to understand the interviewer continued the call and at the end the interview ended earlier.
Other Senior Software Engineer Interview Reviews for Airbnb
Recruiter is super responsive and helping with team matching. People are friendly. Process is standard. Coding question is difficult which is like leetcode hard question. SD interview is standard but question is specific to Airbnb domain.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Airbnb in Feb 2026
Interview
Entrevista muito curta, prevista pra 15min mas acho que nem chegou a isso. Poucas perguntas e pouco espaço para o candidato falar sobre a sua experiência, nem a câmera a recrutadora ligou
1. HR screen
The HR asked about my experience and mentioned that their coding question is very difficult. So, we scheduled the first technical interview for two weeks later.
2. 1st technical interview
Just the coding question, no more self-intro and project dive.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A Leetcode hard problem about maze, which could use BFS to resolve