How to Get a Job at AirbnbAbout this guide
Get HiredInside Scoop
  • 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)
CultureAbout Airbnb
General
Values
Mission

Airbnb's mission is to help create a world where you can belong anywhere and where people can live in a place, instead of just traveling to it.



Vision

Belong Anywhere.



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  • San Francisco: 888 Brannan Street
  • Toronto: 101 College St, Suite 120
  • Singapore: 158 Cecil St
  • Seattle: 1601 5th Ave
  • São Paulo: Rua Capote Valente 1443
  • Portland: 34 NW 1st Ave
  • Paris: 3 rue de Montyon
  • New York: 627 Broadway
  • Milan: Via Ripamonti 44
  • London: 2-4 Great Eastern St
  • Dublin: The Watermarque Building, Ringsend Rd
  • Copenhagen: Frederiksborggade 5C
  • Berlin: Brunnenstraße 196
  • Barcelona: Passeig de Gràcia 6
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