Airbnb rejected me after the deep dive
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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chat system sd is their classic, did they push on the disaster recovery part too?
damn the deep dive rounds have been merciless lately, how long was your resume walkthrough before it turned into grilling?
yeah I've heard the same thing, they let you talk uninterrupted for a bit then start poking holes
no feedback beyond not hitting the bar is so vague, at least the sd went well for you
the vagueness is the worst part honestly, doesnt help you prep for next time
sorry to hear that, deep dive is so unpredictable depending who you get
booking overlap one is brutal under time pressure, congrats on at least getting through it clean