Airbnb reviews

Toxic work environment. Terrible management. People are only looking out for themselves and managing up, and trying to appear as if they know how to run a company. Zero transparency. They'll throw you under the bus instead of taking responsibility for their reports. This trickles down from the top.

Airbnb design culture resembles a college design course, which isn't completely surprising because this was the founder's first job and success out of a design school. There's very little looking at real data, qualitative user feedback or real user empathy. Airbnb has forced out all of the best people who think deeply and holistically about interaction problems. The designers who are most successful are the ones who can quickly create multiple iterations of visually compelling ideas. As the result the design is beautiful but still disjointed, unintuitive and arguably results in a much less successful bottom line for the company.