Airbnb interview notes, page 3 of 19

“I framed it as binary classification pretty quickly, which felt right, but I spent too long on label construction before touching features.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning 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.

“Sorting the digits ascending is the obvious move and I got there fast.” 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 is the kind of question that sounds straightforward until you're actually in it.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Airbnb, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I blanked for a second because the product wasn't Airbnb at all, which threw me.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Airbnb, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The scope thing is what gets 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.

“I started coding the default case pretty fast and that was fine, but then they pushed on extensibility and I kind of fumbled.” 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 board and move logic came out fine, grid with a column-stack approach, nothing too tricky.” 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.

“Very on-brand for Airbnb so I wasn't surprised, but I still fumbled it a bit.” 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.

“My first instinct was to treat it like a graph coloring problem and I wasted probably three minutes going down that road.” 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.

“Classic Airbnb question, probably the most predictable thing they could have asked.” 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.