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100 interview questions from past Airbnb candidates

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Company question insights and frequency breakdown

Total Questions

100

Very Common

18

Categories

9

Reports

1062

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Question Categories

Fundamentals (35)
Databases (22)
JavaScript & TypeScript (10)
Node.js & APIs (9)
React (7)
Caching (7)
CSS & Styling (5)
Message Queues (4)
Sorting & Searching (1)

Very Common Questions
18

These questions are frequently asked at this company

useEffect Empty Dependency Array

React
medium
18 reports
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JavaScript Symbols

JavaScript & TypeScript
medium
18 reports
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Generators and Iterators

JavaScript & TypeScript
hard
18 reports
mcq

useDeferredValue Hook

React
hard
18 reports
mcq

Custom Hooks Composition

React
easy
18 reports
mcq

Airbnb: React Component Re-rendering

React
medium
18 reports
mcq

TypeScript Type Erasure

JavaScript & TypeScript
medium
18 reports
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Airbnb: Availability Calendar

Sorting & Searching
medium
20 reports
mcq

Closures in JavaScript

JavaScript & TypeScript
medium
18 reports
mcq

TypeScript Type Narrowing

JavaScript & TypeScript
easy
18 reports
mcq

JS: Event Loop

JavaScript & TypeScript
medium
18 reports
mcq

Event Delegation

JavaScript & TypeScript
easy
18 reports
mcq

IntersectionObserver API

JavaScript & TypeScript
hard
18 reports
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useTransition Hook

React
hard
18 reports
mcq

React Concurrent Features

React
easy
18 reports
mcq

TypeScript Conditional Types

JavaScript & TypeScript
hard
18 reports
mcq

React 18 Automatic Batching

React
medium
18 reports
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Array Flatten

JavaScript & TypeScript
easy
18 reports
coding

Common Questions
68

Regularly reported by candidates

Netflix: Multi-Region Failover

Fundamentals
hard
10 reports
mcq

Palantir: Federated Data Architecture

Fundamentals
hard
10 reports
mcq

Coinbase: Transaction Processing Order

Message Queues
hard
10 reports
mcq

DoorDash: Search and Discovery

Databases
medium
10 reports
mcq

Coinbase: Transaction History at Scale

Databases
medium
10 reports
mcq

Coinbase: Wallet Balance Tracking

Databases
hard
10 reports
mcq

Database: ACID vs BASE

Databases
hard
10 reports
mcq

Consistency Model for Messaging Systems

Databases
hard
10 reports
mcq

Databricks: Incremental Processing

Fundamentals
medium
10 reports
mcq

Meta: Photo Upload at Scale

Fundamentals
medium
10 reports
mcq

What does ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY dept ORDER BY salary DESC) do?

Databases
medium
10 reports
mcq

Robinhood: Payment for Order Flow

Fundamentals
medium
10 reports
mcq

Meta: Instagram Story Architecture

Fundamentals
medium
10 reports
mcq

Palantir: Ontology-Driven Data Integration

Databases
medium
10 reports
mcq

Databricks: Data Skipping

Databases
medium
10 reports
mcq

Salesforce: Multi-Tenant Architecture Basics

Fundamentals
easy
10 reports
mcq

Apple: Memory Constraints

Fundamentals
hard
10 reports
mcq

Event Sourcing

Fundamentals
hard
10 reports
mcq

Databricks: Unity Catalog

Fundamentals
hard
10 reports
mcq

Debug a database deadlock issue

Databases
hard
10 reports
verbal

Salesforce: Shared Nothing vs Shared Everything

Fundamentals
hard
10 reports
mcq

Coinbase: Portfolio Tracking Dashboard

Fundamentals
medium
10 reports
mcq

Netflix: Event-Driven Architecture

Message Queues
medium
10 reports
mcq

Stripe: Idempotency Keys

Fundamentals
medium
10 reports
mcq

Twitter Tweet Storage: Database Choice

Databases
medium
10 reports
mcq

Databricks: Data Lakehouse Architecture

Databases
easy
10 reports
mcq

Bloomberg: Pub-Sub Market Data Architecture

Fundamentals
medium
10 reports
mcq

Cache Invalidation: Write-Through vs Write-Behind

Caching
hard
10 reports
mcq

Databricks: Multi-Cloud Data Sharing

Databases
hard
10 reports
mcq

Database: Read Replicas

Databases
medium
10 reports
mcq

Load Balancing Algorithms

Fundamentals
medium
10 reports
mcq

DoorDash: Notification System

Message Queues
medium
10 reports
mcq

Design a Key-Value Store

Fundamentals
medium
10 reports
system design

Month-over-Month Revenue Growth

Databases
medium
10 reports
coding

Coinbase: Crypto Exchange Order Book

Fundamentals
hard
10 reports
mcq

DoorDash: Dynamic Pricing (Surge)

Fundamentals
hard
10 reports
mcq

Spotify: Playlist Follow Notifications

Message Queues
medium
10 reports
mcq

Database Replication

Databases
medium
10 reports
mcq

Design a caching strategy for an e-commerce product catalog

Caching
medium
10 reports
verbal

Uber: Eventual Consistency in Location Data

Caching
medium
10 reports
mcq

Design a URL Shortener

Fundamentals
medium
10 reports
system design

Spotify: Real-time Lyrics Sync

Fundamentals
medium
10 reports
mcq

ACID Properties

Databases
easy
10 reports
mcq

Cache Invalidation Strategies

Caching
medium
10 reports
mcq

Blue-Green Deployment

Fundamentals
medium
10 reports
mcq

Coinbase: Withdrawal Approval System

Fundamentals
hard
10 reports
mcq

Uber: Handling Network Partitions

Fundamentals
hard
10 reports
mcq

Explain database indexing to a new team member

Databases
hard
10 reports
verbal

CAP Theorem Trade-offs

Fundamentals
easy
10 reports
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Design a Web Crawler

Caching
medium
10 reports
system design

Top 3 Products Per Category

Databases
medium
10 reports
coding

Database: Indexing Strategy

Databases
medium
10 reports
mcq

Apple: Power vs Performance

Fundamentals
hard
10 reports
mcq

Circuit Breaker Pattern

Fundamentals
hard
10 reports
mcq

Databricks: Medallion Architecture

Fundamentals
hard
10 reports
mcq

Design a Distributed Cache

Caching
hard
10 reports
system design

LinkedIn: LinkedIn Learning Video Delivery

Fundamentals
hard
10 reports
mcq

Robinhood: Idempotency in Trading

Fundamentals
hard
10 reports
mcq

CAP Theorem

Databases
medium
10 reports
fill blank

Spotify: Discover Weekly Architecture

Fundamentals
hard
10 reports
mcq

Stripe: Designing for Exactly-Once Payments

Fundamentals
hard
10 reports
mcq

DoorDash: Merchant Integration

Fundamentals
hard
10 reports
mcq

DoorDash: Analytics Data Pipeline

Databases
medium
10 reports
mcq

LRU Cache Eviction

Caching
medium
10 reports
fill blank

Salesforce: Big Objects for Archival

Databases
hard
10 reports
mcq

Meta: News Feed Ranking

Fundamentals
medium
10 reports
mcq

Spotify: Cross-Device Handoff

Fundamentals
medium
10 reports
mcq

Robinhood: Settlement and Clearing

Fundamentals
medium
10 reports
mcq

Occasional Questions
14

Reported from time to time

Z-Index Stacking Contexts

CSS & Styling
hard
4 reports
mcq

Stripe: RESTful Resource Modeling

Node.js & APIs
medium
4 reports
mcq

Middleware Patterns in Node.js

Node.js & APIs
easy
4 reports
mcq

Node.js Child Processes

Node.js & APIs
medium
4 reports
mcq

Node.js Error Handling Patterns

Node.js & APIs
easy
4 reports
mcq

CSS: Flexbox Centering

CSS & Styling
easy
4 reports
mcq

CSS-in-JS Tradeoffs

CSS & Styling
hard
4 reports
mcq

CSS: Specificity

CSS & Styling
medium
4 reports
mcq

Path Join

Node.js & APIs
easy
4 reports
coding

Stripe: Webhook Reliability

Node.js & APIs
medium
4 reports
mcq

Rate Limiter

Node.js & APIs
medium
4 reports
coding

Environment Variables in Node.js

Node.js & APIs
medium
4 reports
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BEM Methodology

CSS & Styling
easy
4 reports
mcq

Node.js Buffer

Node.js & APIs
easy
4 reports
mcq

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