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 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.
Motivation for Airbnb and Role Understanding
Candidate's motivation for joining Airbnb and their understanding of the role, including alignment with Airbnb's culture, values, and product domain, to assess fit during the interview process.
Meta Products & Data Culture
Overview of Meta's product ecosystem (e.g., Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, Oculus/Reality Labs) and the company's data-driven culture. Covers Meta's product portfolio, business strategy, leadership approach, data governance, analytics practices, experimentation culture (A/B testing), data platform considerations, privacy requirements, and cross-functional decision-making within the organization.
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.