Pros
Airbnb is no doubt a rocket ship. The culture is great, breeds friendliness. Some of the smartest people around in Silicon Valley.
Cons
- Data Engineers Are Treated As Second Class Citizens. - Blogs might give you the impression that there is fancy engineering or data science going on at Airbnb, but that is not true, with the exception of a few open source projects. We have a hard time attracting top data science talent relative to our peers. - Many managers are not technical enough to understand what we are doing, leads to a bungled performance review process. - Arrogant attitude that this is the best place to work and why would you want to work anywhere else. Not sure where we lost our humility along the journey... - Lots of red-tape, the speed and innovation at which things happen extremely slow. Generally people are risk averse