Airbnb Staff Engineer Architecture Interview
Hello, I am looking for questions that are asked in a typical Staff Engineer Architecture Interview. I will be having 2 Architecture rounds, recruiter said one of them will be on database key-value store. This is in the service platform team. I do not find many posts on staff level so hoping to get some help here. Also, for the coding round I was told I will need to do a hacker round where I am expected to get a working code rather than an optimized one. Any idea what level of difficulty that will be and what kind of questions? #airbnbinterview #systemdesign Msft TC 240K, 8 yoe
I'm not a staff eng, but the architecture interviews will probably be typical design interviews with virtual whiteboarding, but maybe higher expectations / bigger scope than usual since it's a staff role? The coding round will likely be LC medium/hard, mostly harder mediums and not so much hard hard. Code fast and explain your approach throughout. If you apply to a team it doesn't necessarily mean you'll get interviewers from that same team, could also be engineers from other teams conducting a more generic design/coding interview
Thank you so much for your input. Been prepping for the system design rounds and doing lot of case studies. I’ve been practicing some hard LC but lately in panic mode. Trying to keep myself calm and solve as much I can before the interview. It’s going to be a Hackerrank type of code editor as per the recruiter mail so the code has to pass all the test cases:( that’s what freaks me out
For the coding round, you mean the live coding interview with an engineer right? If so it's just the standard 45-60 minute interview where you write code in stubbed functions/methods in the editor to solve a leetcode while explaining things out loud. Just focus on solving the problem and getting working code typed up, if you're struggling make sure to communicate clearly regardless. It's really not any different from other LC coding rounds from my experience
I’m in the same position as you are. 1 Hackerrank coding round and 2 ML rounds
Let me know how it went. When is your interview?
Tomorrow is my interview