About

Airbnb is an online community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book accommodations.

• CEO: Brian Chesky
• Mission: We’re united with our ability to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
• Revenue USD MM (FY20): $4,805.24
• Headcount: 5,400

Highlights

• Airbnb Citizen: Initiative to share tools for learning and advocacy
• White House equal pay pledge
• White House tech inclusion pledge
• Self audit practices to improve EX
• Supporting human rights campaign for equality
• Airbnb connect program to hire under-represented groups

EX objectives

• Provide a transparent environment
• Easy lines of communication between teams and leaders
• Focus on creating diversity at the workplace

Great people in the team. Good resources and tools.

– In Market Host Acquisition Specialist at Mumbai

Drivers of culture

• Empathy and humanity
• Unconscious bias training for all leaders to promote diversity
• Trust & Openness – Let employees take home company laptops, devices and accessories during the Covid restructuring

Key ratings

• Total ratings on Glassdoor: 1300
  • Overall rating: 4.1
  • Recommend to friend: 84%
  • CEO approval rating: 87%

Benefits

• Comprehensive health plans
• Paid volunteering time
• Generous parental and family leaves
• Annual travel and experiences credit
• Temporary relocation to any country Airbnb operates in

Worked with a lot of wonderful people, had great benefits, and was able to maintain a pretty good work-life balance.

– Software Engineer at California

Diversity and inclusion

• 48.94% – Women workforce in the total headcount
• 34.48% – Proportion of women holding leadership positions
• 52.12% – Representation of other ethnicities in the workforce

I sincerely believe that [discrimination] is the greatest challenge we face as a company. It cuts to the core of who we are and the values that we stand for.

– Brian Chesky, CEO

Partnerships to promote diversity

• Dev color: A non-profit organization to support black software engineers.
• Level playing field: Devoted to building greater diversity by improving civility and fairness in workspaces.
• Yearup: Preparing low-income youth for professional jobs through higher education, training and support.

Match-up to Airbnb!

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