Airbnb work culture
From everything I’m reading, it sounds very relaxed and I can’t tell if that’s a good thing or not. I love taking a good vacation once in a while (did a bunch last year). For Airbnb, i can’t tell (based on comments) if it’s a work hard play/vacation hard kind of culture or if it leads to lack of accountability/deadlines slipping/ people treating work as a second priority/ retirement option. Loving what I’ve heard about Airbnb culture (genuinely nice people!) but when trying to assess if it would be a good work place fit for me I’m hitting a wall. What’s the sense of urgency in getting shit done at work at Airbnb? I feel there’s a tricky balance between wlb and constantly pushing the envelope. If things get tooooo comfortable, people stop trying to invent new things/have bigger impact
They seem to work smart not hard. This is possible when the size of the engineering org is essentially a relatively small group of capable engineers. I am curious how this culture will fare as they grow and inevitably let in mediocre engineers, which I am sure has been happening.
Thanks for sharing!
Come to Singapore office..it's dog eat dog here
There are over 1500 engineers here. It varies by team. My team works about 45 hours a week. Supposedly the China teams have bad WLB.
👀👀 it’s me your manager from wall mart. I just reviewed your last year vacation. Looks like you took approx 4.5 weeks (counting weekends) last year very strategically spaced out (ex 1 week here, long weekend there, 1.5 weeks in summer, 1.5 weeks in winter etc) Now you started applying for UBEr and Airbnb....I will see u on Monday!!!!
...thanks for the no value comment. 4.5 weeks is like the most common vacation time at Walmart - it’s what we were paid out before we got unlimited vacation so in our benefit to take it
No offense bro, chill!!!