Airbnb - finally got the offer

Hack2hire Community · 2026-05-13T06:00:00.021Z

Airbnb - Interview Experience - Software Engineer Result: Offer Number of Rounds: 5 Spent a month prepping specifically for Airbnb and it paid off. Sharing the full breakdown. Phone screen was the bank account management system. Implement deposit, withdraw, transaction history, and balance. Sounds basic but they want test cases written and edge cases handled cleanly. No casual warmup. You dive straight in. Onsite had 5 rounds. First coding was House Robber III (tree DP). Got it working, added th...

User-l2s123d ago

Airbnb - finally got the offer

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User-6i44x3d ago

did the cross-functional round feel like a real values screen or more checkbox BQ?

oliviabrown3d ago

real screen. they pushed back on my answers and asked follow-ups. not checkbox at all

User-fpa9c3d ago

had the split stay problem too. any tips on the DFS memoization approach?

oliviabrown3d ago

draw out the recursion tree first. key insight is you can repeat bookings so it's not a standard path problem

vikramreddy19953d ago

chat system with schema focus is new info. most prep resources focus on architecture not data model. thanks for this

chloechen3d ago

4 days to offer is fast. did they give you a deadline to respond?

gracewang09123d ago

which projects did you deep dive on? any specific domain they care about more than others?

oliviabrown3d ago

both were backend distributed systems. not sure they care about domain, more about depth of understanding

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