Is there something going on at Airbnb? From what I heard, at least 7 engineers left the company in the past month - sounds like a pretty high turnover rate.
From the outside, we only know recent management change - CFO leaving and new COO announcement. Also heard about the controversial high level promotion at eng org last year. Company valuation has been flattish in the past 2 years. Something does not smell right here. Anyone from Airbnb willing to share?
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Two years later, our valuation has not budged. And just two months ago, our CEO lets the CFO go and publicly talks about how we are a “21st century company” with an “infinite time horizon”.
Suffice to say, morale is lowest it has ever been and I expect a lot more employees to look to leave soon.
Heard from a friend who is hiring in the DS org that he is seeing even more of an exodus. Apparently there’s a very unpopular head of DS at Airbnb that is trying to make everybody do basic analyst level work instead of building out ML and marketplace Algos/Products.
There’s definitely a little pain because we’re no longer just 200 eng, so it’s not like a family like it used to be. I think that’s why some people left, they typically went to tiny startups. But the culture is still the best and most supportive that I’ve seen anywhere.