Cracked first phone screen. In second, solved problem optimally. Interviewer tested it successfully. Finished before time. He said I did good. Today morning , received rejection. Is it normal?
Yes, it is normal for interviewers to lie when asked to evaluate a candidate during the interview. And it is also normal, though unprofessional, for the interviewer to volunteer a positive evaluation while cutting an interview short. Try to remember the questions, interviewers hints, your solutions and responses and then spend some time improving your answers and optimizing the solution. Better luck next time.
Yah. Next time it won’t be Airbnb. Not as a customer too.
Maybe that wasn’t technical rejection? Could be pettiness or self-importance that they sensed.
Yes, i cracked a google interview and was rejected two weeks later. I know the as*hole that caused it, one engineer from Russia told me i was the first person he would ever interview, he didnt even ask what my name was, what i did, didn’t have an interview packet on him, spent 30 minutes of the interview asking me what’s the difference between java and c#, then average time needed to access a file from desk, etc. then he asked me a stupid question and had 15 minutes to come up with a solution and code it. So yes, it is normal, even though I cracked it, it was very obvious that this individual had an unconscious bias against me that I can never proof. He didnt even shake my hand and was acting offended all the time.
Are you from Chechenya or Georgia or Poland or Germany? 😛
Or Ukraine
was there any follow up question asked? fwiw cracking the first tps doesn’t guarantee you aced it.
Ya they probably wanted you to do 2 questions or some shit
At the beginning Interviewer explicitly said there will be one question.
There's only one question during TPS. The fact that you did two technical interviews on phone means you they were on the edge about you in the first interview. Usually it only takes on interview to make it to the Onsite.
if candidate is not local, two tps is fairly common
The recruiter told me in the first call itself that there will be two phone interviews.
I recently did a second phone screen for a candidate. I gave him a yes to move on to the onsite because he solved the question quickly and his code was pretty elegant too. But I had some concerns about his communication skills since he didn't talk about his solution until I asked him to and he kept asking the same question even after I already answered it. Apparently the first interviewer had similar feedback, so he was rejected. Maybe something similar happened to you?
So you have a hiring committee for phone screens!
Seems like you just asked him memorized question on LC.
@op did you get LC hard? Medium?
At Airbnb, right or wrong, communication is very important even for engineers. The products are very cross functional and in order to get things done you need to over communicate specially when your PM is not technical.
Which team are you on, where the PMs are not technical?
Means you didn't do good. You crack an interview if you can solve at least 2 questions.