Airbnb interview questions

Standard coding puzzle, but leetcode hard level instead of medium like most companies

Companies: Airbnb

Last reported Sep 2025

Design multi-currency pricing end-to-end

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System Design · System Design Fundamentals

Last reported Aug 2025

Enable secure offline reservation caching

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System Design

Last reported Aug 2025

Reduce frontend network requests efficiently

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API Design · System Design

Last reported Aug 2025

How do you hire and evaluate potential engineers?

This question explores your hiring process and criteria for assessing engineering candidates. It was prompted by previous discussion of hiring experience.

Companies: Airbnb, Meta

Last reported Jul 2025

Resolving Team Conflict

Describe a specific situation where you successfully resolved a conflict within your team or between teams. Explain your approach and the outcome.

Companies: Airbnb, GitHub, Google, Meta +2

Last reported Jul 2025

Design scalable notification system

Companies: Airbnb

Real-Time Systems · System Design

Last reported Jul 2025

Design a hot-listing waitlist API

Companies: Airbnb

API Design · System Design · System Design Fundamentals

Last reported Jul 2025

1 leetcode hard complex dp questions

Companies: Airbnb

Last reported Jul 2025

Design a Basic Auth System

Design a scalable authentication system that can handle user registration, login, session management, and secure access control across multiple services.

Companies: Airbnb, PayPal, Upstart

Last reported May 2025

Describe your most impactful project

Companies: Airbnb, Amazon, Anduril, Anthropic +22

Project Deep Dive

Last reported Mar 2025

Give me an example of a tough or critical piece of feedback you received.

Companies: Airbnb, Amazon, Anthropic, Atlassian +14

Last reported Mar 2025

Palindrome Pairs

Given an array of unique words, return all ordered index pairs (i, j) such that words[i] + words[j] is a palindrome. The optimal solution relies…

Companies: Airbnb

Last reported Mar 2025

Tell me about a time when you made an error in judgment.

Companies: Airbnb, Amazon, Databricks, Meta +2

Last reported Mar 2025

Tell me about a time you had a conflict with a coworker. How did you resolve it?

Companies: Airbnb, Adyen, Amazon, Anthropic +31

Last reported Mar 2025

Implement a UI Card Game That Deals Cards

Design and implement a user interface for a card game that includes functionality for dealing cards. Discuss the architecture, user interactions, and any animations or…

Companies: Airbnb, Apple

Last reported Jan 2025

Implement flatmap

Implement the flatmap function, which is a common operation in functional programming. Discuss its use cases, how it differs from map and flatten, and provide…

Companies: Airbnb

Last reported Jan 2025

React component and some vanilla JS questions. Overall not difficult but if you haven’t done vanilla Js in a while be sure to study it

Companies: Airbnb

Last reported Dec 2024

Shortest Path in a Hidden Grid

You must find the minimum number of moves from a starting cell to a target in a 2D grid that is initially unknown and can…

Companies: Airbnb

Last reported Nov 2024

Give us an example of a piece of work you have completed recently

Companies: Airbnb

Last reported Sep 2024

2 coding (between tech screen and loop), 1 code review, 1 system design, 1 behavioral focused on a single project deep dive.

Companies: Airbnb

Last reported Jul 2024

Hackkerrank Assessment , which was a combination of MCQ, Coding and API design

Companies: Airbnb

Last reported Apr 2024