Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Airtable with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 36% 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 19 days to get hired, when considering 25 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Airtable overall takes an average of 28 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Airtable as a Software Engineer according to 25 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 63%
One on one interview: 25%
Skills test: 8%
Other: 4%
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Worst Interview Process - Long take home assignment (6-8+ hours) with multiple features following a redline mockup and their media assets. It looks like exact workday with too many detailed requirements to make it perfect followed by absolutely no feedback from hiring team. They have only two rounds. Only if you complete the long detailed written coding assignment, you can go to next onsite group round.
The only person you get to speak with is recruiter who immediately assigns you to take home assignment with fully functional feature story with many sub assignments, compensated with petty gift card and no feedback on how you did. It takes your entire day to complete take home interview with too many detailed project requirements and many sub parts.
On top of building multiple elaborate features, they also ask for detailed written documentation on how you made the project and how you will code up the next story and how to make a project plan and best code practices to follow, etc. After you submit the code, week later they provide vague reasoning as you are not selected for last round when your project is fully functional and meets their requirements.
Seemed more like a knowledge transfer assignment on how to make features, rather than an interview for hiring. So my takeaway is they are just getting their difficult work done through petty Amazon gift card and wasting candidate's time.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Build multiple (3-4) elaborate features following redline mock exactly and company assets.
It looked like the same/similar features built during assignment were implemented on their webpage.
They also ask for detailed written documentation on how you made the project and how you will code up the next story and how to make a project plan and best code practices to follow, etc.
Seemed more like a knowledge transfer assignment on how to make features, rather than an interview for hiring. So my takeaway is they are just getting their difficult work done through petty Amazon gift card and wasting candidate's time.
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