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.
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.
Apple Security and Privacy Philosophy
Familiarity with Apple's public approach to user security and privacy, and how those principles influence product and engineering decisions. Candidates should be able to explain privacy by design practices, examples of privacy focused features and technologies, the role of hardware based protections and data minimization, how Apple balances user experience with privacy, and concrete product examples that illustrate trade offs. Interviewers may probe for how those philosophical choices affect architecture, data flows, and measurable user protections.
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.