Airbnb
Online marketplace for lodging with strong data science and infrastructure.
4 Rounds
~21 Days
Hard
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Technical Loop (3-4 Rounds)
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Interview Question Bank
Machine Learning Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Given a list of booking requests represented as intervals [start_date, end_date] and an associated profit for each, write a function to find the maximum profit you can make without accepting overlapping bookings.
#Dynamic Programming
#Sorting
#Intervals
Machine Learning Engineer
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Coding
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hard
Given an array of search results represented as strings (host_id, listing_id, score, city), paginate the results such that no two listings from the same host appear on the same page if possible, while maintaining the descending score order. Each page holds exactly N results.
#Hash Maps
#Greedy
#Queues
Machine Learning Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Given a dictionary of words and a string of characters (representing a user's misspelled search query), find the longest word in the dictionary that can be formed by deleting some characters from the given string.
#Two Pointers
#String Manipulation
#Sorting
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