Anyone work here or know much about it? Not looking, but honestly just curious what they’ve been up to. Sounded really interesting when they announced it
a lot of companies have teams like Samara, not sure why this is confusing. you explore new ideas and take learnings from that to improve the core product
Mayb is right a lot of companies have such experimental teams, it's usually high pressure but you learn a lot and get to work on a lot of different things. It's really hard for these teams since there's no clear defined goals and there will be a lot of shooting in the a dark based on gut feelings and user studies. But if something sticks it can really help give the business a new direction.
they work on POCs to see what happens. hopefully some projects graduate and are added to the main product. at the very least, it is a good way to allow employees to explore their ideas.
Based on my past experience of working on experimental teams, it's really interesting work and you will get to learn a lot, at the same time it can be high pressure stuff since there's so many different things to try out and not as much time.
Heads up that this is not an internal Airbnb post. It’s visible Blind-wide.
It is just to create a job for one founder. Will never be on the critical path of airbnb.