Airbnb interview notes, page 10 of 19

“This is where it fell apart for me.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Airbnb, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This was basically five questions stapled together.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Airbnb, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I started with the event store and CRUD flows which felt safe, but the interviewer kept pushing on recurrence expansion and I fumbled it a bit.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Airbnb, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I froze for a second because all my go-to stories are about technical wins, not uncomfortable conversations.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Airbnb, Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The part I underestimated was how hard they'd push on whether the scope was actually senior-level.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Airbnb, Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The multi-channel part is where I spent most of my time and probably where I fumbled a bit.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Airbnb, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Part one felt like a warmup and mostly was.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Airbnb, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I went straight to a sorted set per listing and tried to think through the split point scan linearly.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Airbnb, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The core idea clicked pretty fast: sort by end time, then build up a DP where each entry is either skip the current job or take it plus whatever the best non-conflicting prefix gives you.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Airbnb, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The base case took maybe five minutes and I felt good about it.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Airbnb, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.