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I was surprised by the notion that airbnb is considered a top tier engineering company. Excuse my ignorance as an outsider, but what interesting engineering pro
by hueving 11y ago
I was surprised by the notion that airbnb is considered a top tier engineering company. Excuse my ignorance as an outsider, but what interesting engineering problems are they solving?
From the outside, I see a listing service that processes transactions and plots things on a third part mapping service. There isn't a complex dynamic market based auction system or anything like that. Can someone with more knowledge shed some light on what airbnb does that puts it on par with the work from Google (e.g. spanner, F5, borg, their SDN stuff, etc)?
- temp20160423 11y agoTheir comp is obviously top. I was impressed at how large AirBnB's offer is in every aspect--its base was already higher than the total comp of many of his other (initial) offers.
- cylinder 11y agoAvg one bedroom apartment in SF is 50% of the take home pay on 120k.
- whazor 11y agoI guess recommendation, machine learning, infrastructure (multiple servers over earth), fraud detection. From the outside they also have messaging, an automatic pricing feature, and I remember them announcing that they want to offer extra services, like a day trip.
- hobofan 11y agoThey are solving a lot of the infrastructure problems that come with microservices. They also do that with a stack that has much less JVM in it than Twitter and Netflix, which makes working there much more appealing for some people.