Airbnb reviews

4.1

78% would recommend to a friend

(2,378 total reviews)
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Brian Chesky

86% approve of CEO

66% positive business outlook

Airbnb has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 2,378 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Airbnb employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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2K reviews
2.0
Feb 13, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefit, good pay, but no different than other top tech companies.

Cons

Most of the managers are extremely young and the company does not invest in training managers to be a good people leader. Worst of all, during our most recent global team meeting, someone asked if a good people manager means one who takes time and effort to grow each team member, our senior leader said it means to do whatever it takes to hit the target!

1.0
Jan 8, 2017

A dying unicorn ... all because of politics!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Beautiful office space, talented co-workers, amazing meals and perks (such as travel coupons). Founders are sincere and seem to really care about the culture - demonstrated with initiatives that engage all global employees once a year.

Cons

Airbnb has become HIGHLY political, and this behavior is encouraged from the top executives for the past year. This has generated many problems: employees are fighting to survive, recognition is based on relationships (not work). This has created a pseudo “Lord of Flies” working environment. Top executives are disconnected from the users and the product. Transparency and sharing of knowledge is non-existent. You need to know the right people in order to know what’s happening. Some execs don't even come from tech companies, but from old-school Fortune 500 companies, and it shows.

2.0
Aug 21, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Decent pay, good benefits and perks, travel coupon, awesome coworkers

Cons

DEAD END JOB. There is nothing I want to be promoted to within customer service and getting out of customer service is nearly impossible, especially if you don't want to move to the god-forsaken city of San Francisco. I started working here because I really believed in what Airbnb stands for and the service it is providing to the world, but it turns out that "belonging"is just their overt mission. In actually, Airbnb is like every other mega cooperation - focused on making more and more money for billionaires. Over the past year a number of our perks have been chipped away at and office culture is plummeting - right now everyone I talk to in the Portland office wants to quit. Additionally, every since we got a new CFO - who on his first visit to the Portland office called Bernie Sanders a crazy person (way to know your audience, dude), the belt has been tightened more and more one what resources we have access to to solve our customers problems. The metrics we are held to were raised significantly right before I (and a bunch of other people) got hired. So there are a bunch of longer-tenured employees in this office who were promoted quickly within their first year of working here because their "excellence" was based on much lower standards than newer employees are held to. Now it's nearly impossible to get promoted. They introduced sick time last year (it used to be a part of our PTO - 15 days for sick and vacation AND no holidays off) as being unlimited, and then about a month or two ago backtracked and said it was never meant to be unlimited and actually we only get 40 hours of sick time a year. This was announced mid-year after many people had already used that much time up because they had been under the assumption that it was unlimited. Our managers tried to tell us it was never unlimited, which is frankly a bunch of BS.

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