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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I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Airbnb (San Francisco, CA) in Feb 2017
Interview
I was referred by a friend and then contacted by a recruiter. He scheduled the phone interview in a couple of days. The interview experience was really bad. The interviewer had a thick accent, he was Chinese and I find it a bit hard to understand. He presented himself as working at a different company than Airbnb (lol), corrected himself and then we jumped right into the coding question. He copied an example of input and that's it. I had to write the requirements by myself. I explained my solution and he said to code it. Then, 30 min of my monologue followed. The interviewer put himself to mute and didn't answer any of my question. Probably he thought I was just asking rhetorical questions. He did not communicate at all. It was really awkward. I think they should prepare more the interviewers, because they do not have any idea of how to hold an interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a list of host_ids, put them in pages of size 12 and make sure you don't have any duplicates (as possible).
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