Product Manager interview
at Airbnb.

Tell-me-about-a-time stories on ownership, conflict, and impact — scored against this company's real values.

1. 01 What part of Airbnb's mission of belonging resonates most with you, and how have you championed a similar mission in a product you've shipped?
2. 02 Tell us about a time you acted like a 'Cereal Entrepreneur' and scrappily shipped something meaningful with very limited resources or headcount.
3. 03 Describe a time you were a host to your team or users during a crisis, putting their needs ahead of the roadmap to make them feel cared for.
4. 04 Walk us through a decision where you had to balance the needs of two sides of a marketplace and one side felt they lost; how did you preserve trust?

The hard screen for the craft itself — talked through out loud, not whiteboarded in your head.

1. 01 Name three common problems guests have with the homes they book and what product changes Airbnb could make to fix them.
2. 02 Airbnb is expanding into a brand-new city in Canada; would you focus on recruiting hosts or guests first, and how would you sequence the launch?
3. 03 Design a feature that helps guests find the best neighborhood in a city for their specific needs, and define how you would measure its success.
4. 04 How would you redesign the host pricing-suggestion experience to increase host adoption without driving prices in a way that hurts guest affordability?

Open-ended design of the systems this company actually runs, with the interviewer probing your tradeoffs.

1. 01 Design Airbnb's listing search and ranking product, and explain how you'd rank results to balance guest relevance against host and listing diversity.
2. 02 Design the booking and reservation flow end to end, including how you'd prevent two guests from booking the same dates on one listing.
3. 03 Design Airbnb's trust and safety product for reviews and reservations to reduce fraud and fake listings while preserving belonging.
4. 04 Design a host-side pricing-suggestion product, including the inputs, the guardrails, and the metrics you'd use to evaluate it.