I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Airbnb
Interview
Applied online, new grad. I was contact and given the opportunity to choose either the generalist or the iOS interview process.
I went for the iOS route.
Started with one iOS phone screen, After that I was asked to do 1 iOS phone interview and 1 generalist phone interview.
After completing the third phone screen I was asked to do another generalist phone screen.
I was rejected after my 4th phone screen
I feel as if I had a much more difficult screening, mainly due to the iOS interviews requiring specific knowledge on top of the generalist. It seems like I have had to complete the generalist screening and the iOS screening making it more exhaustive. This also requires splitting interview study time between iOS & generalist, which put me at a disadvantage.
In the end, always choose the generalist route, whole process took over a month.
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