I’m wondering Airbnb only hire backend engineers with exactly matched experience. Actually, I just got rejected from another unicorn company. The recruiter told me I did coding and system design interviews well but the hiring manager concerned that I don’t have any backend server or distributed experiences. My background is mostly OS Kernel, desktop windows application for more than 10 years and iOS/Android app development for couple of years. Even though I’m not a server oriented, I have designed Skype or Facebook messenger like systems without Hadoop or Kafka like open sources( since it was long time ago, there was not much open source I could use.) I’m planning to apply Airbnb when their Seattle office hires but, if they are only interested in the candidates with exactly matched experience, I should give up now and thinking about moving to Azure team or something.
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Your background is still strong enough to be leveraged in backend teams
Airbnb sucks in this. Afaik they really want a perfect match. Applied for few jobs in last 3 years. Never got a call from recruiter. Even a referral couldn't get me a call.
They don't. I got in with similar background as you.
VuhB68 I get calls from all companies to interview except Airbnb. I applied there 2 years back and they never even acknowledge the application
I don't think you need to have exactly matched experience. When you join Airbnb, the first 3 weeks are bootcamp, where you basically get to choose your team as long as the team has headcount. Most of the teams I talked to didn't seem to care that I didn't have experience, although I was a new grad so they might have had lower standards. Also I'm pretty sure the Seattle office is hiring now. I met several new hires in the past couple months from Microsoft who are now in the Seattle office. I think you might still have to interview in SF but you can tell your recruiter you want to work in Seattle.
There’s a wide range, you can find somewhere that’s a good match. Just have to be willing to learn fast. IMO the bigger issue will be the adaption to a super fast paced environment.
It doesn’t matter clear your interviews and you will make it eventually to any teams