The ultimate unicorn showdown 🦄 Where would you rather work? Also feel free to say why in the comments
Assuming SWE, Uber is solving really hard technical problems at a scale that's comparable to the biggest businesses in the world. AirBnB operates at an order of magnitude less scale and the technical challenges are more about implementation and integration.
Technically I find Uber to be much more interesting, as others already pointed out. I am less sure about their business - I hear they are still subsidizing rides. I also realized that I paid Airbnb more in fees (meaning money going directly to them) than I spent on Uber rides (of which only small fraction goes to Uber).
Uber has much bigger scale; far mire complicated, dynamic, realtime requirement to fulfill a transaction. Another interesting part might be that it has more business lines.
uber’s technical challenges/scale/complexity are much more appealing to me but both are great
I see this advice a lot. But I would rather advise based on what team he/she is joining. Uber product maybe more technically challenging, but he/she may be working on more challenging stuff at Airbnb instead and something small in Uber. Unless both teams look equally interesting.