Onsite

Phone Screen, Then a Five-Part Onsite With a Brutal Experience Deep Dive

AirbnbSoftware Engineer · Onsite · Sep 2025

Phone screen: LC 1235 Onsite Coding: I prepared so much, and then they gave me a problem that wasn't from any of the interview-experience posts: Honestly the problem itself wasn't hard, but you had to handle the input/output strings yourself. I used Java, and with 45 minutes that also had to include small talk, I was pretty nervous, and it was just annoying. Code review: the interviewer was genui…

Shared by a candidate · reported Sep 2025. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.