Online applications must be an automated process as I was rejected from my online application but a recruiter personally reached out to me weeks later. I had a short call with the recruiter to review my experience and was set up for a technical screen for which I was told would cover frontend concepts and best practices. I was also sent prep materials emphasizing the same. However the actual technical screen was a data structure and algorithm/ leet code hard problem.

Recruiting team seems very understaffed and overworked. When I was interviewing, it took them almost 2 weeks to get back to me after the technical screen, and virtual onsites. The recruiter also didn't seem to respect my time, often calling me without any warning with important info while I'm not available. They were also extremely unresponsive to my emails/messages. Airbnb was my first choice when I started interviewing, and it took such a long time that I found out about another compelling opportunity and took that instead. That being said, the interviews themselves were average difficulty, the company outlook seems good, the engineers there seem great to work with.

Recruiter screen followed by a Tech phone screen. I got a simple JS question dealing with hashmaps and arrays. I was able to code a perfectly working solution without any help. The interviewer kept making it tougher as I proceeded and I passed all the test cases. There was no back and forth and it was really smooth. Still, I got a reject which was confusing! I was reading through TeamBlind forum for Airbnb interviews and it has points on discrimination on ethnicity etc. It was a disheartening experience considering Airbnb was one of my favorite companies.