Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite un selezionatore. La procedura ha richiesto più di una settimana. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Airbnb nel mese di nov 2015
Colloquio
Was contacted by a recruiter and had a 30-minute phone screen with the recruiter. Given a take home data challenge to complete with 72 hours and send back. Next stage would have been Skype interviews with data scientists and general employees.
There was definitely a lack of communication with recruiter and data science team. I was not offered an interview based on skills that could have been pre-screened by the recruiter before doing the time consuming data challenge. I got the impression they were "fishing" for candidates.
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Take home challenge: Analyze the results of an A/B test, and summarize the findings in a short report.
Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite un selezionatore. La procedura ha richiesto 6 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Airbnb (San Francisco, CA) nel mese di giu 2025
Colloquio
Overall smooth interview process including combination of behavioral, coding, system design and research oriented questions. Through research oriented interviews you go through projects you have done and they ask questions about your work and then they propose an open problem and you should express your ideas. It is difficult to assess you performance on these interviews
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Implement a simple encoding for a collection of strings
Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Airbnb (Seattle, WA) nel mese di feb 2024
Colloquio
1. Behavioral-style phone call
2. Simple data exercise screener
3. Virtual onsite. Several rounds, including a prepared presentation, and a 2-part data analysis exercise. I think I flubbed the SQL part of that. I was frustrated about the presentation though. The instructions said to take no more than an hour prepping it (ok lol) and to keep it VERY short, and NOT to go as far as, say, simulating data to chart. I felt like I bent the rules to fit in more info, ideas, analysis, how I expect the results to look - a bit like a grant proposal - and then I got dinged for not further breaking their own instructions and making it yet more in depth. Oh well, no one said this process has to be fair. So, word to the wise: ignore their instructions and make your deck way meatier!
On the bright side I'm glad they gave feedback about which parts of the virtual onsite I flubbed. They were friendly and interesting to talk to. It mostly seemed like a process at least vaguely aligned with their hiring goals for the role, which is honestly more than I can say for most interview processes!
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How would you analyze the effects of a major change to their product if it were not possible to run an A/B test?
Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite segnalazione di un dipendente. La procedura ha richiesto 2 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Airbnb (San Francisco, CA)
Colloquio
reached out by recruiter, first round is live coding interview in hackerrank with two questions, one on data transformation and the other is writing pseudo code to call preprocessing and a classification model object and calculate variance of performance metric
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one column in data frame is a string such as [1,2,3,4,5], convert it to average number in int format