I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Airbnb (San Francisco, CA) in Mar 2015
Interview
Phone screens with two recruiters, two engineers and a manager. Then onsite was three technical interviews, two cultural fit interviews and a manager. Everyone was nice and it seemed like a good environment.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
phone1: Java and hive.
phone2: Sql questions, joins, aggregates, sub queries, windowing.
onsite1: sql and map reduce
onsite2: datawarehouse modeling
onsite3: string handling, complex fizz buzz kind of thing.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Airbnb (San Francisco, CA)
Interview
Asked about data modeling questions. How to design different tables, how to partition data, how to scale. And asked to write SQL queries based on the previous questions. The coding interview asked simple coding questions, array, if else, loop, etc.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Airbnb in July 2021
Interview
A combination of technical and behavioral questions to assess your skills, knowledge, problem-solving abilities, and cultural fit. It included coding challenges, whiteboarding sessions, and discussions about past projects and experiences.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
questions to test your ability to create programming logic, i dont remember the specific problems
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Airbnb (San Francisco, CA) in Apr 2021
Interview
Data engineering centric interview questions; none of the LeetCode style programming stuff. More focus given to data architecture which is great because that's what you end up doing in the job itself!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write SQL to insert a new date's data into a datestamp-partitioned table using incremental data from the other date partitions .