I have an on-site with Airbnb on Tuesday. They said I will have two architectural rounds and one coding, which will be a multi-part question on Java. Not sure why does it have to be specific to Java. I haven’t done much java in a while and it’s gonna slow me down. Can anyone please shed some light on what to expect on any of these? Much appreciated.
Its usually never like that. No interviewer will force you to code in a specific language. You can choose your language of preference.
I talked to the recruiter about it and told her Java is not my strongest language currently and I’d rather code in Python. I mean I could do java but I’d just be slower. This is the first time I am coming across this stupidity too.
Did the recruiter say no you have to code only in java?
Is this a special position? How did you apply to it? Usually the coding rounds are language agnostic and you can use whatever you want.
I didn't get any memo about forcing candidates to use Java. This is either something very new or the recruiter is making stuff up.
I’m guessing your recruiter is mistaken. Nobody should care what language you use. Just please no brainfuck.
Everyone here from Airbnb is wrong. We do have questions that are only in Java. It’s for a specific team and it’s not for Android. They do a practical question in Java rather than 2 language agnostic algorithmic questions. Tell the recruiter you’re not familiar w Java and will fail the question. Ask if you can go in the regular loop with 2 coding instead.
Just wanted to update my blind fam. It was supposed to be a Java specific interview but the recruiter called me up at 7:30am asking if I want to change it up to two language agnostic interviews. I said hell yes. I didn’t request for it earlier - I just said if there was no other way, I could try my best at Java. So, it got changed to two language agnostic rounds. My interview started late and then ended late, with the two coding questions. And it went well. Glad the recruiter called in the morning.
Guys. Airbnb wants to move forward to the next round, which is a 2 30min “cross-functional” calls. Any gotchas I need to know for those calls, please?
Sooo, everything was great after my onsite interviews and cultural interviews. I had my best onsite ever. They were leveling me and then all of a sudden I get a generic no-reply email saying Airbnb isn’t moving forward. I contacted recruiter and she said texted saying it could be because of “leveling and headcount”. And ghosted me after. Have any of you seen this happen? It was a really bizarre experience. Everything went perfect before that.
Sorry to hear. Which level were you interviewing for? What the recruiter said, to me, sounds like "we don't have headcount for your level, so we can't move forward".
She said they leveled me at L4 and that they have no openings for L4 across the company.
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If you haven't done java why are you being considered for the position (assuming the position requires Java) This is stupid.