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
Data
Design
PSO
SWE
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
Data
Design
PSO
SWE
- 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
Vision
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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LocationsOffice Locations
- 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