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Candidate-reported interview insights

Airbnb General Intern interviews, decoded.

Explore commonly reported questions, interview rounds, difficulty, duration, and candidate experiences for the General Intern role at Airbnb.

4 rating Internet & Web Services

Interview overview

Difficulty

Average

Average rounds

2.8

Average duration

~44 days

Difficulty and candidate experience

Interview difficulty

easy8%
average68%
difficult24%

Candidate experience

neutral28%
positive60%
negative12%

Candidate-reported interview process

Applied online and had a quick phone call in a few weeks. Then, they scheduled a live coding session through an online code editor. Had an half an hour to work on one question.

Got referred by someone at airbnb. Had a technical phone interview, then two technical interviews back-to-back on skype. I think there was supposed to be a final hr round if I'd passed, but I didn't make it :-(

I applied after getting a referral and a recruiter reached out soon after. Since I'm on the East Coast, my phone screen and final interview were conducted via Skype. I needed to speed things up because I had another offer, and they were super flexible. They asked really insightful questions to gauge my fit with the team, and the recruiters were very helpful. After my phone screen and before my last interview, a recruiter briefed me on what to expect next in the process, which was great.

Common Airbnb General Intern interview questions

A focused selection of the most detailed candidate-submitted questions.

  1. 1

    What can you teach me in less than one minute?

  2. 2

    What Airbnb metrics would be affected by X?

  3. 3

    What is something we could improve on?

  4. 4

    What factors influence Airbnb metrics?

Interview question formats

Behavioral45.7%
Technical28.3%
Coding8.7%
Other6.5%
Presentation6.5%

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Interview information is based on candidate reports and may not represent the current official hiring process of Airbnb.