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- airbnb website really buggy lately I love airbnb but since the layoffs, the site has been so buggy. It’s down all time and errors left and right. Anyone else experiencing this too? Is it because airbnb is also cutting down the server cost!? Either way not a good experience.
- link Airbnb eng creates vaccine website! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/nyregion/vaccine-website-appointment-nyc.html I see so many people here complaining why is the vaccine so behind in progress? Well what have you done to improve it? Why don’t you volunteer as an eng to support these websites? Or even create one your own so that th
- Why is the Airbnb website and UX utter shit? Hello Airbnb friends. I do not mean to be rude but your website is slow as balls and the navigation UX, which seems to change every month and rearrange links in new, confusing places, is quite bad. I’m a host and a guest, and every time I use your website it’s like I’m loading it from a toaster mod
- What exactly do AirBnB engineers do all day? The app/website sucks Like I said, its buggy as hell, and half the features I and other hosts have suggested are never implemented.
- Looking for airbnb recruiter Hi, is anyone working in Airbnb as a recruiter? I applied thru website multiple times and did not get a single response yet. Need help!
- Airbnb is a great lesson for founders First dont worry the people who started Airbnb are rich. theyll be fine. the rank and file are screwed. This company completely missed their exit window. Its a wework in poor timing. A shame. Nice website. The C19 crisis will give birth to airbnbs replacement. Remember founders timing always mat
- Tech help for ukraine If you haven't heard many ppl are renting airbnbs in Ukraine as a form of helping donate to locals. One issue that's come from this is that fleeing Ukrainians who want to go farther west and south but not leave, have no where to stay because all the Airbnbs show up as booked or full. Any dev on he
- Did ABNB lockup expire? Saw this article https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/airbnb-stock-drops-more-than-6-as-post-ipo-lockup-ends-11621274665 But according to the NASDAQ website, lockup expiration is June 8. https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/ipos/overview?dealId=891868-94768 Can someone cla
- I want to host my own Website! How? I am a new grad, I don’t have money. I want to host a 10 page airbnb like small website for one year just to gauge the proof of concept. 10 Page website, Will have login, upload PDF, download PDF, Login, Profile. DB I want to use - Cassandra, Mongo and MySQL or Postgre API gateway, Load Balancer
- Getting interviews at bigger companies For those of you that have had interviews at bigger companies- FAANG, Stripe, AirBNB, LinkedIn, Uber…etc Are you getting the interviews from being approached by a recruiter, or have you applied on LinkedIn/company website?
- System design: design tag feature of github/bitbucket Does any one know any website I can refer about system desgn problem of designing a tag featuer in github/bitbucket? #google #amazon #facebook #microsoft #uber #lyft #netflix #linkedin #airbnb #stripe #interview #systemdesign
- Any interesting Airbnb positions (L6 eng)? Found only one interesting position on the careers website. I have 10+ years of experience in different areas (mostly distributed systems). Feel free to pm me if you are a hiring manager #Airbnb
- Airbnb @ Downtown San Jose I see that Airbnb is opening a downtown San Jose office in March. But I don't see any positions on their website for this location. Does anyone there know what openings there will be for San Jose? https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mercurynews.com/2019/01/16/airbnb-plans-temporary-downtown-san-jose-o
- vote Where should I apply for jobs? Already set my LinkedIn profile to looking for opportunities a couple of days ago. I was wondering if it would be better to just apply to jobs directly through company websites or hitting up recruiters on LinkedIn. I'm looking for opportunities at companies such as Apple, LinkedIn, Meta, Salesforce,
- What makes Airbnb a big tech company? Airbnb is considered big tech and it makes a lot of sense why people want to work there (TC/culture etc) but why does the company even need strong engineering? The company doesnt seem like a hard engineering problem to me - a listing website, not super high volume. For example, faang is all massive
- I need a studio/apartment in NYC Hi Blinders, I'm moving back to NYC this weekend (Sunday, December 20) and am hoping to find a decent studio/apartment in either Manhattan or Brooklyn. My budget is $1600-$1700 monthly. What are some good websites/resources to search? Apart from AirBnB, of course.
- Selling private equity Has anyone here sold private RSUs before their company IPO'd? I know that websites like EquityZen and IG allow you to trade these, but I don't understand the fee structure and process. If I was selling $500k of private equity, how much actual cash would I expect to walk away with? #airbnb #byted
- Sr. Product Manager interview experiences Interested in hearing recent senior product/program manager interview experiences at FB, Google, Apple, AirBnb, Uber etc. Did you know a reference in company to get initial contact or did you apply through website/recruiter? What were they looking for? How was the interview? Questions? How long from
- No new grad positions. I applied to software engineer new grad role at Airbnb. Recruiter mailed me and asked about my visa and everything. After couple of days I get a mail saying the position has been removed and I can check it on the website and I should apply to any other role which I see fit. There are no new grad rol
- Feeling that IPO fomo with Airbnb and DoorDash? 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
- Looking for SWE referrals Hello folks, Looking for referrals to any tech companies for SWE remote(US) or NY(US) positions. Except (recently interviewed companies): Google/Vimeo - failed onsite Amazon - failed phone screen Robinhood/Salesforce/Bloomberg/Facebook - applied through website, rejected P.S: trying my best to ta
- UI skills to create prototypes of startup idea I'm mostly backend engineers with very limited frontend skills. Say I have a pretty good idea and want to showcase it in prototypes, IMO, it needs nontrivial UI skills to build such things. At beginning, suppose I don't have team to build it for me, want to start slowly on my own. For example, how t
- link Top 20 highest paying Tech Companies? (Non Hedge Funds/Firms etc) Theres not an explicit list on Levels.fyi besides best of 2019, so they might need feature request. Anyone know what website has a reputable list? what am i missing? From scouring around best guess is its likely the somewhere along the lines of the following: 1. Facebook 2. Snap 3. Netflix 4. Pint
- Not what I had signed up for...need referrals Hello Everyone, I recently switched companies, (been here for not more than 2 months). My new team is great people but the product we are working on is not what I want to do for the next 2 years. We are rewriting a legacy website. On top of it, the website is not a heavily used one so there is no s
- Senior UX Engineer , 10YoE looking for referrals to Twitter, Netflix,AirBnB,Lyft I am pretty good at front end dev & UX design, both on web and mobile. I would like to think I have prepared well from DS/Algo perspective, and that I have a pretty cool portfolio website. Can share the link in PM. I have exposure to full stack development as well. I am looking for Principal/Senior
- Looking for place to stay in January 2019 in the Bay Area Me and my girlfriend are from Montreal and new to all this, but really excited. Requirements: Accept small dog. We have a Yorkshire (I don’t like him but comes with the girl...) Looking to lease for 12 months (hopefully get a discount). Below 3.5k per month. Needs to be modern (or charming) nea
- How hard is Airbnb L6 Yoe 7 Currently L5 at Google, and a TL of a product team for more than 3 years. Current team size of 6. Will probably get strongly exceed this cycle, but there is re-org going on, so a lot more uncertainties about promo in Google. Have been feeling a lot of pressure in terms of promo in the last f
- vote Giving back I started my job hunt 4-5 months ago and landed up at Google During this while I got offers from some tech(microsoft, quora, Uber, Airbnb) and hft firms (jump trading, citadel, hrt) I prepared for both sort of companies systematically. I feel I have some really good material (algo DS related patte
- Airbnb Rejection after Clearing Hackerrank coding test Applied on Airbnb website for SWE role in paris. Got a hackerrank test the following day and i took the test and secured correct output for all test cases. Got a mail from HR in 30 mins congratulating me for doing well and set up a call , where he asked about experience and visa requirements etc. Tw
- New Grad Referrals for NYC/Remote Hello Blind, I’m a CS student graduating this may, and looking for new grad opportunities at top tech companies. I have a year of internship experience at a tech company and several freelance projects that are in production (e-commerce and brand websites) Any help would be appreciated, thanks in a
- Early career product design referral I have my BA in Graphic Design and 1.5 yoe in-house and agency. My resume is just not getting looked at in the careers website or I’m getting an automatic deny. Everyone wants senior product designers but don’t want to hire early careers or new grads. Please let me know if you can refer me. #ap
- Cold Applications I've heard the success rate sending "cold applications" (directly applying through a company's website with no referral) is abysmally low. I'm looking to make a move to one of the better tech companies, but with no contacts I had no other option than to send cold applications. My experience has be
- Getting into rental property / real estate investments Hello fellow investors, Any advice on how does one get into real estate rental property investments ? I am looking for remote property management with as little headache as possible, well established management companies/websites where I can just deposit money and get passive returns ? I have abou
- Looking for opportunities in product management and overall advice/mentorship on further breaking into PM roles Hello, I am a Computer Science graduate with experience as a Software Engineer, but am currently doing Consulting at Deloitte (3 years of experience total not including internships). At Deloitte, I am doing B2C product management, but am looking to work in industry as a PM at a big tech company, e.g
- Can't get entry-level UX Design roles What do you do when you can't get offers no matter what you do or how far you get? I have more professional experience than the average new grad- about 1.5 years of internship + contract experience and half a year of experience working on notable sponsored projects. I've been called a "unicorn" bec
- System Design Interview For Facebook, Google, AirBnb and few others Background : I am a generalist kind of sw eng work doing mainly some javascript and some backend coding to implement business logics. No micro service working experience but have overall idea , Specifically have worked for very little time for some projects. I don't find them extraordinarily chal
- Robinhood shows that no startup darling is safe Really crazy to see it all come crashing down once a tech hype beast meets real world disaster. Not saying that RH is done for, obviously, but a lot of their goodwill has been erased in days. You see this with bigger companies all the time. AirBnB got battered by the pandemic- remember when everyon
- Request for referrals Hi, I am a current senior (CS + Data Science) double major at a Liberal Arts College (GPA: 3.85). Graduating May 2021. I am an international student, and I did an internship this summer at a fin tech company. Sophomore year summer, I did research with my professor for CS. I have also worked for 1
- Season of giving back - Resources for product role Happy Holidays everyone: In the spirit of the season of giving back I am creating this quick summary of useful resources that I have come across this year in my effort to get better at product management and find a new job at one of the product companies in Bay Area. While I am yet to get an offer
- Recession tips from old timers Hey all, having spent some time on blind the last couple of weeks, it's becoming super clear that most of the website skews relatively young and y'all haven't lived through a recession as a member of the workforce. As a sort of an old timer who worked through 2008, I have some thoughts. Others who
- Companies you refuse to go back to? For me it's Facebook and Microsoft for two very different reasons. I've worked at Facebook before and refuse to go back. The recruiters have approached me 3 times in the past 12 months. I enjoyed my time while I was there, had amazing growth (L5 --> L6 in 1.5 years) and TC, but in retrospect the
- vote Behavioral Interview Questions MEGA LIST For those struggling in behavioral interviews, here are some questions from the top companies: ## General - Why do you want to work for X company? - Why do you want to leave your current/last company? - What are you looking for in your next role? - Tell me about a time when you had a conflict with
- Stackoverflow discouragement for applying for a job. I have been working on my own startups for last 5 years; established 2 companies, one took off, makes around 500k yearly, and one didn’t. The one didn’t take off was in US and it was my recent one. I raised money for it from US investors and also went through one of the well known startup accelerato
- link Diary of a Bay Area tech worker Monday, 8am Drive to work, cross the bridge. $7 toll. Up a dollar since last year. Monday, 8:35am Made it across the bridge. Traffic sucks, pay another $9.35 toll to use the Carpool—err, Express—lanes so you’re not late for your 10am meeting. Monday, 10:03am Parking spots are all gone at work, so
- link Update: Still poor, but now I've got a future! (& I kept my soul) Hi everyone. Two weeks ago after a particularly long, difficult day, I got on the internet and started researching how to get into the tech field. This first led me to reddit's CS Career Questions board. While reading the posts, I noticed how people kept mentioning "blind" and curiosity led me to d
- link H1-b Transfer - LCA Odds of Denial UPDATE: Guys I would like to apologize for the misinformation I provided yesterday. It was not intentional, the data (link provided below) is there referred to as H1b program data and description field for Case Status is given as "Status associated with the last significant event or decision. Valid
- link 3 YOE - 5 Offers - Seattle I’ll lead with this: I’m a straight white guy with a neutral-American accent and US citizenship, so I have a lot of unfair advantages in life that not everyone is lucky enough to get. Blind was a big part of what inspired me to seek out higher compensation and gave me confidence in my negotiation,
- link SDE guide to getting the best offer - part1 This is a part of 3 part series post. Read them in order. part 1 https://us.teamblind.com/s/isDNuYPU part 2 https://us.teamblind.com/s/VXz1n07A part 3 https://us.teamblind.com/s/ij5tgwfF ___________ I left Microsoft some time ago. I switched job several
- SWE Interview journey, offers, rejects, tips. Warning: long post. TL;DR; at the bottom. (*In Blind mobile app, only the first half of contents are shown because the post is too long. The second half has been added in the comments section. There is no issue reading this in desktop browser from teamblind website.) I started prepping for intervie
- link ‘ Build on your lot’ builders with cost+floor plans in bay area,ca. I searched but couldn’t find builders with floor plan catalog & approx cost. This was the only one- https://thomasjameshomesusa.com/northern-california/ Any recommendations? Thanks