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User-u2g30Jul 6, 2026

Airbnb rejected me after the deep dive

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Just wrapped up the loop with Airbnb, got the rejection today. Phone screen was the account merge problem, basically DFS over connected emails, went fine with time to spare. Onsite had two coding rounds, one being the booking overlap problem where you minimize stays to cover a set of nights. Got it working with memoization but ran over cleaning up edge cases. System design was the chat system, they wanted the full schema plus how you'd route sockets across multiple servers. Then the deep dive, they spent almost 90 minutes on my resume project and that's apparently where I lost it tbh. Rejection came a week later, no real feedback beyond not hitting the bar.

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jliuJul 6, 2026

chat system sd is their classic, did they push on the disaster recovery part too?

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User-cr4rnJul 6, 2026

damn the deep dive rounds have been merciless lately, how long was your resume walkthrough before it turned into grilling?

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User-8xvpkJul 6, 2026

yeah I've heard the same thing, they let you talk uninterrupted for a bit then start poking holes

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User-6m6p2Jul 6, 2026

no feedback beyond not hitting the bar is so vague, at least the sd went well for you

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User-0yikeJul 6, 2026

the vagueness is the worst part honestly, doesnt help you prep for next time

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User-v2oqeJul 7, 2026

sorry to hear that, deep dive is so unpredictable depending who you get

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User-jen94Jul 6, 2026

booking overlap one is brutal under time pressure, congrats on at least getting through it clean

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