1. Comp 2. Less toxic as compared to others 3. Slow moving resulting in less pressure (in certain parts)
1. Hires less and only senior people. So no growth path for management and IC. 2. Extreme top down. Nothing happens without CEO's decision making 3. Bi-yearly launches which are better suited for hardware world than software. 4. Lot of super senior people in rest and vest mode.
Anyone who received Hacker rank online assessment for Airbnb? What should i expect in SQL portion. Is coding leetcode hard?
Been looking at house hacking opportunities to afford buying a first house while single and renting other rooms. What are the main things to figure out before buying? How should I do the math to figure out if buying a 1M house (just as an example) with 3-4 rooms is a good idea in some cheap area? ...Read more
Can anyone please shed some light on difficulty level of Airbnb hackerrank coding challenge? If anyone recently took the test. Please help me to understand. Location - India. Applied through the Airbnb career site.
Does Airbnb have actual hard engineering problems? As someone mentioned on Hacker News today: “the day to day engineering problems Airbnb has are not very interesting. It’s a web app that can handle peak traffic with standard technologies (meaning nothing real time, live streaming, or millions of u...Read more
What are your best travel hacks ? Mine are : 1. Explore option in Google flights. Found some of the cheapest flights 2. In Airbnb go for “flexible” option. It shows all the discounts 3. Book using Chase Sapphire Reserve card. You got signup bonuses and gather points. Refer your spouse for next y...Read more
Been at FB 6 months and waiting to hit 1 year when I will leave. I am in Seattle. Engineering quality is just hacks all over the place in attempt "move fast" . I just sick of hacks and keep patching them and getting on call craziness. I am E5 with 10 yrs of experience. Criteria is good engineering...Read more
Should your solution pass all test cases to proceed with interview? My code passed 8/11 test cases and hacker rank don't show the failed test case @Airbnb
Check out: https://iporegrets.com/ You've come to the right place! I've hacked together a janky ass website where you can see just how much money you missed out on by not joining companies like Airbnb, DoorDash, Snowflake, and all the other hot startups. So don't cry about how much money you might...Read more
Hello fam! Hope you all are doing fantastic. I am in loop with AirBnb for SSE role; I have cleared their Hacker Rank test and have been invited for the next set of 4 rounds. Can you please suggest how should I go about planning my preparation for the same? What topics and kind of questions I can br...Read more
Hey AirBnb folks, I gave a Airbnb coding interview and was able to come up with optimal solution. The question would be LC hard - medium level. However nice my code was, it did not execute correctly in the hacker rank coding tool. So am I rejected already? I did try to debug it but was mostly out of...Read more
I was keen to apply for the position of Software Engineer at Airbnb, Paris. Following is the position link: https://careers.airbnb.com/positions/1586624/ Can someone please refer me? A little bit about me: I am currently working as SDE 2 at Microsoft R&D with 5+ years of working experience, mostly...Read more
It's a successful IPO and many friends worked there celebrated in social media. I definitely felt happy for them(especially the truly smart ones, not only the lucky ones) and echoed! However some posts in social media posted by some of Airbnb employees are really disgusting. I was once a true Airbn...Read more
https://us.teamblind.com/article/looking-for-recruiter-contacts-or-referrals-at-lyft-and--airbnb-2Kodv5tf You can apparently browse blind without any form of registration, anonymous app my ass So if any particular person or post gets enough attention, I bet the person will be de-anonymized very fa...Read more
I am on H1B, my wife is on H4 and currently waiting for her EAD (we expect it to be here by July 2022). We are also in the process of purchasing a house. The loan will be in my name but we plan to have the home on both of our names (500K capital gains exemption for couple). We want to house hack t...Read more
I don't want to stay at Amazon. I don't like it here anymore. The future projects that are lined up for this year look scary af and I don't feel like I'm learning as much anymore. I did a lot for this org and I still feel undervalued. It's insane that I got Top Tier ratings, but then got dev listed ...Read more
Have the below offers in hand. Which one would you choose if you want to optimize for future career growth? All offers are for Senior position. Here are the pros and cons: 1) Airbnb : Pros: More upside. People are genuinely nice. Strong business with a lot of room for growth Cons: Engineering prob...Read more
Now every discussion online(not only here) seems to be about compensation, new VC hipster products like AirBNB for dogs or SWJ inclusive stuff at some company I miss the old days when you read Slashdot and an article about a new Java release would get 400 comments how much Java sucks or how anyone ...Read more
I'm writing this to be helpful to anyone aspiring to start their own business. In 2019, YOE3, software engineer at FAANG. In 2022, I run a SaaS business, no VC-fund, no external investments, profit is more than my FAANG salary. Took 1.75 years. Started with < 50k savings. I work on this full-time
Excellent handy list of tech blogs with wealth of information. High recommended to bookmark and follow(atleast the big ones). These are great for system design interviews too. Netflix (highly recommended ) https://lnkd.in/dGDs_knt GitHub https://lnkd.in/d39RwfqB AWS https://lnkd.in/dVTtMirs Uber ht...Read more
Some info about me to get better advice from y’all 25 Nw like 580-600 Tc - 350-400 Yoe little over 3 In the NJ/NY area right now & supporting parents and helping pay their mortgage/support. So right now I live at home - probably until end of year. I was considering buying my own place in Jers...Read more