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What do you have to do to get considered at Airbnb?

2 points by bedobi ↗ HN
What the title says :)

I'm applying for Senior Software Engineer roles for which I think I'm a good fit, my resume usually generates at least a call for a quick screen even with big popular companies, but with Airbnb it's been one automated "thanks for applying" response after another.

Anything obviously wrong with the resume?

https://docs.google.com/document/d/17dsfm__m86CCpB3X2ZZSA95LzMz72MoQJ8WKPBf30dk/edit?usp=sharing

Any recruiters able to do something manually to get you considered?

I'm aware this is a self-centered question, but for what it's worth I think any answers would be useful to many other people on HackerNews!

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mmonaghan
Your experience is slightly out of order - Grindr should be ahead of Expedia. I don't think that's the reason entirely, though, but as a recruiter I'd tilt my head and squint at that.

My advice is to find someone you're connected with at Airbnb, even if its a 3rd degree connection, and see if they'll refer you.

Also have you done a diff between your resume and the job descriptions? If you've applied to multiple, it might be useful to see if there's a common denominator between them that could explain why you're not getting a callback.

Lastly, don't stress about one company :) They're probably just inundated with apps and its taking forever to get back to people.