Airbnb Interview Questions and Guide
Working, runnable code is expected. Core values interviews weigh heavily in the final decision.
The Airbnb interview loop
- Recruiter screen
- Technical screen
- Onsite: coding, system design, experience deep dive, core values
Airbnb interview questions
- Design a Payment System
- Design Yelp (Proximity Search)
- Design Airbnb
- Minimum Window Substring
- Corporate Flight Bookings (Difference Array)
- Text Justification
- Basic Calculator II
- Bus Routes
- Shortest Path to Get All Keys
- Minimum Eating Speed
- Convert a Sorted Array to a Balanced BST
- Contains Duplicate III
- Course Schedule (Ordering)
- Cheapest Flights Within K Stops (Bellman–Ford)
- Reconstruct Itinerary
- Alien Dictionary
- Detonate the Maximum Bombs
- Longest Increasing Subsequence
- House Robber
- Regular Expression Matching
- Maximum Profit in Job Scheduling
- Combination Sum
- Shopping Offers
- Employee Free Time
- Word Search II
- Search Suggestions (Autocomplete)
- Palindrome Pairs
- Design File System
- Tell me about a conflict with a coworker
- Tell me about a time you helped someone grow
- Why do you want to work here?
- Tell me about a project you drove from idea to launch
- Tell me about a time you had to compromise
- Tell me about a time you convinced others to adopt your idea
- What questions do you have for me?
- Your team is split on a technical direction. What do you do?
- Tell me about a time you made sure every voice on your team was heard
- Tell me about a time you advocated for users
- What part of our culture would be hardest for you?
- Tell me about a time you argued for users over an easier option
- Tell me about a time you made someone feel they belonged
- Tell me about a time you stepped far outside your comfort zone
- Tell me about a time your first impression was wrong
- Walk me through your life story