Airbnb Software Engineer Interview Experience — A Perfect Cloud-Storage OA Score Followed by Rejection

Airbnb·Software Engineer·Aug 2026
Online AssessmentRejectedmedium

I received the OA immediately after applying, got a perfect score, then received a rejection email a week later.

The problem was a cloud storage system. It had four levels. You only got the next level after finishing and submitting the current one.

Level 1: Support adding new files, retrieving files, and copying files.

Level 2: Support finding files by matching prefixes and suffixes.

Level 3: Support adding users with different capacity limits.

Level 4: Support compressing and decompressing files.

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Interview at a glance

Company
Airbnb
Role
Software Engineer
Rounds
Online Assessment
Outcome
Rejected
Difficulty
medium
Interview date
Aug 2026
Questions from this interview
1 question

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