Have an Airbnb L6 offer (was very surprised as I messed up 1 interview). Airbnb doesn't excite me as much. How is infra/eng challenges at Airbnb? $220k/$1.2M/$30k sign on = $560k ish. Currently E6, ~$470k. YOE: ~12 (5 at FB).
Congrats! How’s their bonus and refresh? I’m going to their onsite for e6 interview too.
20% cash bonus. Refresh is $200k-$300k. Give FB E6 a shot. Similar pay
Yep, my FB onsite was scheduled next week. :) Overall I did not feel excited about Airbnb. The panel of my 1st round onsite did not impress me. I might just use their offer as a lever
What org? There is a wide variance in challenges/type of work
Payments
We have harder challenges in the payments space than almost anywhere else due to the nature of our business. Payments also has one of the strongest engineering cultures at the company. I recommend setting up a call with a senior IC there. The infrastructure is primitive relative to Facebook but it’s starting to change.
Of course it's primative. The company is still very small and has yet to IPO. There's still a lot of building and re-building needing to be done. Think about where FB was in 2011... You can't expect Airbnb to be where FB or Google are today. What's interesting to me is joining when you actually have the ability to shape the company's future. They need builders.
Facebook also had different incentives: probably orders of magnitude larger QPS requires stronger infra
Primitive*.
Toxic culture and too much process within the orgs. I would stay away.
Cmon bruh 😂
Lots of nepotism and lack of diversity in eng
White? Indian? Chinese?
Yes curious to know.
Base and sign on less than L5. You can do better.
Joined airbnb from G. Work is not challenging, very top down. You wouldn't like it after working at F. Only thing going for them is the package which is attracting talent but other than that there is no reason to consider.
Damn! That's what I feared the most. I love the bottom up and eng challenges at FB. Btw, FB E6 gives out similar offers, so airbnb offers aren't extraordinary. Give FB a shot if you are bored at Airbnb
How is airbnb as a destination after G? Do you regret it compared to G? How is wlb?