Airbnb rejection
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Sorry OP. Senior expectations are tough. Could you elaborate more on House Robber III variant?
5 YOE at Airbnb senior is genuinely a high bar. distributed systems background helps but doesn't guarantee it.
communication style is genuinely what Airbnb weights. not just correctness. you can cover everything technically and still miss
did you get into fan-out vs pull model for the chat system? that's usually where the senior bar shows up
yes, covered fan-out on write with TopN cap for large groups and fallback to pull above a threshold. thought the tradeoff discussion was solid.
the booking/split stay early termination trips people up. how far did you get before time ran out?
got the base case and most of the memoization working. the pruning logic was where I lost time. had the right idea but didn't finish clean.