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.
Airbnb Strategy and Growth
Understanding Airbnb Strategy and Growth requires knowledge of the company s current strategic priorities and how product and technology enable expansion. Candidates should be able to discuss areas such as long term stays, international expansion, new accommodation categories, experiences and enterprise partnerships. They should explain the product and platform capabilities that support these priorities including payments and monetization, localization and internationalization, pricing and inventory management, trust and safety and fraud prevention, personalization and matching, and application programming interfaces for partners and internal teams. Strong answers will identify appropriate business and product metrics such as bookings and nights stayed, host retention and guest retention, conversion rates and average booking value, and will show how to design experiments and success criteria. Candidates should also surface trade offs between rapid growth and long term unit economics, regulatory and local market constraints, technical and operational risks, and the cross functional plans required to deliver and measure impact.
Lyft Business & Services Familiarity
Familiarity with Lyft's business model, core products and services (ridesharing platform, mobility offerings, pricing strategy), partnerships, and market positioning as part of understanding the company's business and culture.
Airbnb Product and Mission Knowledge
Evaluate familiarity with Airbnb product flows, features, and how technical and design decisions support the company mission. Candidates should be able to describe core workflows such as searching and filtering listings, booking and payment flow, host and guest experience management, messaging and reviews, common edge cases, and recent product features. Interviewers expect articulation of how product choices promote inclusive experiences and align with the mission to help people belong in different places.
Spotify Motivation & Role Fit
Discussion of motivation for joining Spotify, how the candidate's background and skills align with the role, and demonstrated understanding of Spotify's culture, values, and product strategy to illustrate fit.
Airbnb Strategic Vision and Opportunities
Asks for a grounded point of view on where Airbnb should invest product and technical resources to create meaningful marketplace value. Topics include identifying adjacent categories and market expansion opportunities, supply side optimization and host tooling, guest experience improvements, marketplace liquidity and matching, monetization pathways, regulatory and locality considerations, trust and safety trade offs, data backed prioritization and hypothesis formation, and plausible go to market and measurement plans. Answers should present logical or data supported reasoning rather than speculation and consider technical and operational implications.
Spotify Mission & Data Passion
Interest in Spotify's mission, product strategy, and data culture; demonstrates understanding of Spotify's business model and data-driven decision-making, and articulates how the candidate's motivations align with Spotify's values and data governance practices.
Airbnb Technology Context and Challenges
Domain knowledge about Airbnb specific technical and marketplace challenges. Topics include understanding the two sided marketplace model and the implications for trust and safety payments and fraud prevention global localization and availability across regions. Candidates should be able to tie domain level constraints to program priorities and explain how product and technical choices are influenced by the marketplace context.