Data Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Airbnb with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 80% positive. To compare, the company-average is 44% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Data Engineer roles take an average of 2 days to get hired, when considering 5 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 Data Engineer according to 5 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 25%
Skills test: 25%
Phone interview: 25%
Personality test: 17%
Group panel interview: 8%
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I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Airbnb (San Francisco, CA) in Apr 2021
Interview
Data engineering centric interview questions; none of the LeetCode style programming stuff. More focus given to data architecture which is great because that's what you end up doing in the job itself!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write SQL to insert a new date's data into a datestamp-partitioned table using incremental data from the other date partitions .
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Airbnb (San Francisco, CA)
Interview
Asked about data modeling questions. How to design different tables, how to partition data, how to scale. And asked to write SQL queries based on the previous questions. The coding interview asked simple coding questions, array, if else, loop, etc.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Airbnb in Jul 2021
Interview
A combination of technical and behavioral questions to assess your skills, knowledge, problem-solving abilities, and cultural fit. It included coding challenges, whiteboarding sessions, and discussions about past projects and experiences.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
questions to test your ability to create programming logic, i dont remember the specific problems