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.
Google Culture and Engineering Environment
Covers familiarity with Google s mission, values and engineering environment. Topics include demonstrating alignment with principles such as user focus, bias toward action, rapid iteration, innovation and learning, awareness of product scale and complexity, appreciation for cross team collaboration and operational practices common at large technology companies, and how you would contribute to that environment. Candidates should be able to speak to how their working style maps to this culture.
Amazon Leadership Principles
Demonstrate familiarity with Amazon leadership principles and how they apply to program and project decisions. Explain principles such as customer obsession, deliver results, think big, and dive deep, and practice mapping your behaviors and examples to those principles when describing trade offs, prioritization, and stakeholder influence.
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.
Amazon Overview & Culture Fit
Overview of Amazon's business model, organizational structure, and leadership principles (Amazon Leadership Principles). Includes guidance on how to assess culture fit during interviews and discussions about Amazon's values and working environment.
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.