You need to hire Jenny Ersbak. She's done three interviews with you so far and I can only say praises about her (and I'm her boss). Email me if you'd like a reference.
We are interested in both recent grads and veterans, as long as you are smart, fun to be around, and passionate about Airbnb. I think a well balanced team should have people with different levels of experience.
As far as I can tell, they're only YC funded. They have steadily growing revenue (given the assumption that more people are booking lodging through their site)
We scaled a rate that took us all by surprise. Obviously, some things are less important than others and we had to prioritize. We're getting around to updating the peripheral pages soon.
The Airbnb team is a talented group of engineers and designers. I had the opportunity to stay with them during Startup School last October and observe their work environment over the course of a few days. These guys are focused on their product and determined, good luck on the hiring! //from Texas
I'd like to know how they chose the quantity for each slot--how did they know "we need X this, Y that, and Z these"? Is there a template for this somewhere? :-) Obviously not--but what was the process like?
The way that I understand Airbnb's business is that they're providing an "inferior good" at least when compared to a hotel room (this is not a slight on their business). Inferior goods usually do well in poor economies (if I remember correctly, Hormel was doing really well with Spam just after the recession hit).
So the fact that Airbnb is doing well probably may not be indicative of a positive trend for the economy.
Then again, one company's success or failure rarely has much to do with the economy anyway.
My guess is that people go to AirBnB for the experience of meeting people, staying in an authentic locale, etc. It seems like a new disruptive product (which would also make it "inferior" to standard hotels).
Will they accept resumes from outside the US? Im just finishing my software engineering post-grad in Ireland, would love to work in a startup like Airbnb.
I always knew this was a good idea. This just shows it. and Couch surfing sort of backed it up. Im glad to see that this is really taking off. Maybe hotels could start charging less. I imagine they could be seeing a extremely small decline in their revenue.
Fun job, looks technically interesting, great benefits, growing fast (used to have 8 openings, now 20), I wish I was done with college so I could apply. Looks like a no brainer.
Most "rules" in life are suggestions of varying strengths. Screening for "college graduate" is just a way of asking for a baseline level of education and polish. If you can demonstrate that in another way, you'll be totally fine -- it may take more effort to prove this without a diploma, but it's totally possible.
The CTO of EMC is an IBM Fellow... and has a B.S. in Finance from Marist College.
