Loren wants to work at Airbnb

Inspired and motivated by some fantastic advice from the HN community, I’ve decided to pursue a frontend engineering position at Airbnb. I’m an entrepreneur at heart, but I love what they’re doing and could see myself working as a part of the team. In fact, Airbnb is one of the only companies I’ve really felt the urge to work with.

In addition to submitting a resume and cover letter, I thought it would be fun to put together this little project. I’m not personally sending a link to Airbnb, so any chance they have at seeing this is entirely up to the community. I guess this is an experiment of sorts - we’ll see how it goes. Thanks HN!

I just emailed the founders. I expect they'll contact you soon.

Awesome way to get their attention. Hope you get hired :)

Thomas - thanks for the kind words and support! Highlighting Pocket totally slipped my mind, but I did include it as a project on my resume.

This is an excellent example of what I'll call "Resume 2.0" or "How to get a job in our new economy".

It's always boiled down to an employer knowing if you can handle yourself and get the job done. The only facilities we had available to try and assess that in the past were those stump-the-chump questions and interviews at a desk sitting across from a committee.

I love what technology has enabled us to do. It has enabled everyone to be a self-starter and enabled us to brandish our accomplishments in really damn creative ways (e.g. this Loren fellow rocking the AirBNB application).

HN is a bit of an echo-chamber for these types of cutting edge job acquisition moves, I don't expect most people to try and get a job this way, but it is the beginning of a trend that I think will make everyone happier as a result.

Loren, best of luck to you. You certainly got an upvote for me and it sure looks like ABNB would be lucky to have you.