Company Knowledge & Culture Topics
Topics covering understanding a company's business model, product portfolio, strategy, culture, values, leadership, and organizational dynamics for interview preparation and market research.
Questions for the Interviewer
Guidance on preparing thoughtful questions to ask interviewers that show business awareness and help you evaluate fit. Useful questions explore the team priorities and short term procurement goals, the procurement technology and reporting stack, typical vendor relationships and risks, the key performance indicators and success criteria for the role, governance and budget boundaries, cross functional collaboration expectations, and the most important challenges the team expects to solve in the next six to twelve months. Tailor questions to the company context and to what you need to learn to judge fit.
Airbnb Business Model Awareness
Knowledge of Airbnb's core marketplace business, how hosts and guests interact, global operational realities, and examples of how procurement supports the business. Candidates should be able to explain procurement touch points such as operational supplies and services, partner and platform vendor relationships, regional regulatory and local market considerations, and ways procurement can improve host and guest experience while controlling cost and risk. Interviewers look for ability to connect procurement levers to company value drivers and to propose contextually relevant sourcing approaches.