The Airbnb site and app works well and looks pretty. I know there will always be ongoing changes to it, but I am curious how much work there is left for the engineers to work on (esp very well paid ones relative to the industry). Is it boring keep the lights on stuff, or is everyone involved in launching the next big _____?
Check out their engineering blog
Still tons and tons of interesting work happening. We are building all sorts of new shit and also hiring like crazy
Is it true there is an Airbnb office opening in NY? I heard it would be where the team that deals with travel for the rich and fabulous would function from
A very generic statement that all managers would make. Means nothing unless concrete project examples are listed
I wish there was an Airbnb office in south bay.
Airbnb website and app has bugs every time I use it.
This is not a constructive feedback. Can you list specifics so someone can bubble it up and get it fixed?
It’s not his responsibility to give feedback. That’s on Airbnb. Are you expecting him to write all the bugs down for free?
Nice! Are there roles for people with PhD level ML expertise for either applied research or interesting data science work?
How could the answer to this question possibly be"no"? And PhD level ML expertise is usually entry level at places like Airbnb. Seems like a very naive question.
Okay didn’t mean to trigger anyone. Relax bro. Lots of companies don’t do applied research work or good data science work so the question is if Airbnb does.
Its iiight, not as good as 4g tho
I’d say nearly half the company is working on making the existing home sharing better by finally paying off tech debt, and the other half is exploring new things like expanding experiences, going into concerts, restaurants, and lots of other secret projects.
Sounds like a lot like Square. Life really does get better when you start paying down the tech debt.
He’s not referring to tech debt
Yes there is lots going on. To make it all happen we just got a new head of engineering (old head of search at G) and we are hiring aggressively.
If you want to solve common sense problems, stop asking people hard Leetcode questions. People who are good at Leetcode are rarely capable of thinking outside the box. They’re like machines and they need all the product requirements before they can build any practical solution.
“People who are good at Leetcode are rarely capable of thinking outside the box.” Where do you get this from?
The app doesn’t work well and it doesn’t look pretty. It sucks. As for website, if you log in and log out of different accounts, they save the picture into your local storage and it stays there forever. Also, why do you have to switch to traveling mode when you’re just trying to view a listing? Dumbest PMs work there and also some dumb engineers. I recently got stupid email notifications about Airbnb not receiving guest payments and I almost canceled their reservation. I called Airbnb and was told that it’s not true. Messaging guests suck! Saved messages don’t even allow you to upload and save photos. Whose PM’s idea is this? What a Dumbo. You can send photos in messages to guests but not in saved messages. You guys asked hard Leetcode theoretical questions but you can’t seem to solve common sense, practical problems. Oh yeah and split payment is also the dumbest thing ever. I could’ve told you not to go into that direction before spending months working on it.
I second tonyour opinion that leetcoding eats brains
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Their "trips" vision to enable end to end things like lodging, cars, activities, food etc seems interesting and broad enough. If you get in the right team, expect you get to build stuff. Just an external perspective so will keep an eye on someone internal to comment
Expect to build CRUD apps.
CRUD 😲 How interesting!