I recently had an interview with a unicorn thats been talking about IPO for a bit. Made it onsite. 4 rounds of interviews. 2 of them were the usual stuff, nothing much to talk about. But the other two I do have a lot to talk about. Interviewer 1: 1 yoe. Had a thick east asian accent (I usually dont complain about this, but in this case i will because of what comes next). Gave me a problem, but kept using internal terminology with it. I clarify each term because a regular person using that term would use it in a different context than what they use it internally and would therefore impact the calculation i was being asked to calculate. The interviewer agrees my understanding is correct. I solve the problem, then he says I calculated it wrong. I re confirm my understanding and this time he says I misunderstood. I solve the problem again correctly with the new understanding. The feedback to the recruiter: poor communication skills and codes with errors. Interviewer 2: 2.5 yoe. Not an engineer but a data scientist. Asks a bunch of Sql, which is fine. With 5 min remaining, asks me to write a full fledged scheduled job “using any framework i want”. Obviously i pick a tech stack and roll with it and do a lot of psuedo code since i dont remember the syntax. Feedback: was not able to complete the given tasks correctly and on time I tried giving the recruiter a feedback on the experience but he was having none of it. The same week I get a FAANG offer because their interview process was much better. Like WTF? Why don’t companies train people before making them interview others? Also, these interviewers had 0 people skills. There was always a condescending tone of we are better than you. I mean I have interviewed dozens of candidates and even if I dislike a candidate, the first rule is to not show it on the face and to be always polite.
Airbnb?
Which company was it
It’s the problem with these unicorns , if 1 or 2 years experience guys interviews that’s the red flag
You dodged a bullet. You would have ended up working with inexperienced engineers who thought they knew everything.
Sucks, but you likely dodged a bullet.
It's not just with these unicorns. Even very well established companies have some people who doesn't know how to interview candidates and they just ask about anything and expect candidates to come up with an optimal solution in 30 minutes 🙄
Airbnb ?
Junior devs like this shouldn’t interview anyone. They think that they are smart and special, because their boss, who can’t afford anyone better, told them so. So they come into the interview with their inflated egos and biases, size you up, and make a decision on the spot. The rest is unimportant. This was a bad luck OP. Nothing more, nothing less. Take your FAANG offer and maybe one day you will meet those guys on a phone screen ;-)
Ironically your English actually reads like “thick East Asian accent”.
Post their names to shame them.
Airbnb I guess - I had a similar bad experience- I would never work for them.