Guide: How to get a job at Airbnb

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Airbnb is known for their culture of belonging, though sometimes it can feel a little isolating/cult-like if you don"t conform
The compensation for these roles is at the very high end of the spectrum compared to similar companies
They are continuing to grow rapidly and employees end up working long hours with a tough work-life balance
There have been some complaints that management is not the most effective

InterviewInterview Process

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The process can take from 2 weeks to 2 months.

Stage 1: Phone screen with recruiter and possibly junior/senior data scientist(s)
Stage 2: Take-home data assignment (3-8 hrs to complete)
Stage 3: Onsite presentation
Half day on-site presentation to present the take home assignment and one project of their previous work; or in some cases an onsite data challenge.
Stage 4: Onsite interview to check cultural fit.

InterviewInterview Questions

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Q 1: Knowledge of A/B testing.
Q 2: How can you report the statistical results to a non-statistician staff?
Q 3: Logistic regression.
Q 4: End-to-end product questions (supply/demand balancing for a PaaS company with a lot of data columns to do various segmentations on). Be able to provide a presentation for a non-technical audience and then a technical appendix for the data crowd
Q 5: How would you impute missing information?
Q 6: Come up with a metric that helps reduce bias in the data set.
Q 7: Brainstorm potential causes of an anomaly in web traffic data.
Q 8: Does the practice of removing missing values cause bias? If so, what would you do?
Q 9: How would you measure the effectiveness of our operations team?
Q 10: An important metric goes down, how would you dig into the causes?
Q 11: What metrics will you evaluate based on a scenario? - (e.g. launch in new city)