I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Airtable (San Francisco, CA) in Jan 2020
Interview
Applied online and was scheduled to talk to a recruiter within a few days' time. The phone call was very forced and it was clear that the person I was speaking to had no direct involvement with the team and no interest in doing anything other than meeting a quota on the number of résumés she submitted to the hiring manager.
I was told that the next step would be a six hour... Yes... Six hour... coding exercise before I had spoken to a single member of the actual team about anything. This is typical of inexperienced leadership with no idea how to build teams through anything other than college hazing rituals, so I was immediately turned off, but she mentioned that they'd give me a $200 Amazon gift certificate upon completion of the exercise, so I pretended to go along with it to see if maybe there was some way I could get someone else to talk to me who actually knew what was going on and why.
I did manage to keep the kid who emailed me the assignment to talk to me for a bit but the experience did little to change my opinion that Airtable engineering is extremely junior-heavy and unable to conceive of a meaningful recruiting process.
I spent maybe an hour and a half on the assignment, submitted it and got the $200 certificate from an automated system. I did not hear anything back after that and believe I made the right call.
Recruiter then phone screen - phone screen was “product based” and easy LC difficulty, interviewer was very kind, helpful and attentive. Passed the round but didn’t move forward due to accepting a different offer
I applied online. I interviewed at Airtable (San Francisco, CA) in Feb 2026
Interview
The phone screen was very conversational and good follow ups were asked. It was specific to an AirTable feature used in the spreadsheet operations. I would say it is not LeetCode style and the recruiter had already told me this would be close to a real world problem.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Airtable
Interview
Had a recruiter screen which went well, I really liked the recruiter here! Super nice and on top of it, and I was excited for the opportunity to interview here. However, I didn't appreciate my interviewer at all. My interviewer was very unhelpful and did a terrible job at explaining the overview of what needed to be implemented. At one point, he even laughed/scoffed at something I was saying, and I just felt very disrespected, and he gave me an air of arrogance. If this is the type of engineer Airtable hires, then I'm certainly not a good fit for this company. In addition, he didn't give me enough time to think, and when I was proposing an idea he would try to give me the answer before I even had an adequate amount of time to think. Like hold on! I'm getting to it. I truly don't think I was given a fair chance because of the interviewer I was given but it's okay, there are other opportunities out there. Just super unfortunate because I really liked my recruiter and I thought this culture would be reflected during the interview process!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Recruiter asked me about my background and projects