All I can gather from this is Airbnb has way too many engineers and designers for the amount of actual work there is to go around.
At the end of the day, the day to day engineering problems Airbnb has are not very interesting. It’s a web app that can handle peak traffic with standard technologies (meaning nothing real time, live streaming, or millions of users at once).
I have no clue what most engineers would be doing there day to day.
At the end of the day, the day to day engineering problems Airbnb has are not very interesting. It’s a web app that can handle peak traffic with standard technologies (meaning nothing real time, live streaming, or millions of users at once).
I have no clue what most engineers would be doing there day to day.