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How Airbnb Rewrote Its Recruiting Playbook
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
airbnb: where it's cool to roll a front end engineer into my scheduled interview for ML 24 minutes late without having read my fucking resume
Same. None of my interviewers read my resume (or my github)and bemoaned the fact that my degree was not from an IVY league university, right to my face.
That sounds like a raw, perfect insight into a company I wouldn't want to work for.
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#13I had the most humiliating experience of my life interviewing with AirBnb couple of years ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5300104
1. Don't pay for anything out-of-pocket for a fly-in interview without solid assurances you won't be screwed (What assurances do I have your accounting people won't give me the indefinite run-around?) or disbursement delays forever (When can I count on being repaid?). Expense reimbursements normally requires receipts, prior approval (specific person in HR or hiring mgr) and talking to accounting to submit the right forms.
2. Don't do a fly-in interview without the following minimums: a phone screen with HR, hiring manager and a video call or two with someone on the team, otherwise they don't have enough invested because they've not qualified you enough to not waste your time and money.
Or: find another or start your own company where people's time and money are not abused. (There's always some time / money invested on both sides of the table, and it's mostly wasted... The wise move is to reduce it as much as possible while still giving people enough of a chance.)
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same. None of my interviewers read my resume (or my github)and bemoaned the fact that my degree was not from an IVY league university, right to my face.
That sounds like a raw, perfect insight into a company I wouldn't want to work for.
Agreed, these comments are far better than the article.
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#15I had the most humiliating experience of my life interviewing with AirBnb couple of years ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5300104
Did you at least get reimbursed eventually?
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
airbnb: where it's cool to roll a front end engineer into my scheduled interview for ML 24 minutes late without having read my fucking resume
Same. None of my interviewers read my resume (or my github)and bemoaned the fact that my degree was not from an IVY league university, right to my face.
It seems like the total dickishness quotient went down over the last 5 years. Airbnb gave my favorite on-site interview, and they were chill with my lack of degree. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
edit: disclaimer: i work at airbnb
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#17They also take a very data driven approach to hiring by leveraging applicant tracking systems like Greenhouse and testing platforms like HackerRank. This helps to surface top candidates and keep the operation smooth and tight.
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#18I feel AirBnb paid for this article. It all feels like a big ad from AirBnb. I also feel it's sponsored by YC by putting it in front page with 37 points in 9 hours (at the moment of writing this comment)
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#19Reading the article it seems like Airbnb took the strategy many companies choose not to take. I call the strategy, "Don't be a dick."
> Dont be a dick Opposite of what I experienced. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5300104
It sounds like they realized they had a problem and turned it around. (Or it's just pure PR spin, and the problem remains. Any recent interview experiences?)
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#20I had the most humiliating experience of my life interviewing with AirBnb couple of years ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5300104
Your experience (and others like it) is the reason Airbnb decided to redo recruiting from the ground up. Almost the entire recruiting team has been hired in the last 2.5 years. Clearly it needed to happen.