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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      30 May 2018
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Sunnyvale, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn (Sunnyvale, CA) in May 2018

      Interview

      One phone screen with two people where they asked 3 questions. This was a very positive experience and I hoped that(short and intelligent algorithms) should be the way to test your coding skills rather than a twisted integer permutation algorithm. I was invited onsite and had to talk to 6 interviewers with two algorithms rounds. I did well in technical communication, system design, culture fit & team interaction rounds. Algo rounds are pretty confusing. One of the interviewers asked about how to find a squareroot of a given number and I came up with a couple of O(log n) solutions and picked the correct one and coded for it. He corrected few buggy lines and I think I made a positive impression. I am satisfied with this interviewer. But my second interview was pretty weird. Question was incomplete. We kept on changing the inputs whenever he felt like he missed to cover a case. I was so confused and by his last fill in the blanks of his own question finally I was clear on what he wants as the output. The solution is a loop of twisted integer permutations. As I was giving him my thoughts on the solution he kind of drove me to the solution which is to create N number of trees with integer permutations. It's a load balancer algorithm. I did my best to write down pseudo code for this algorithm as I didn't have enough time to code for this. I kind of wrote the string permutations algorithm and tried to modify it to the needs of this solution. Not sure how he accessed my skills by it. He barely has a couple of years of experience so I might not have made the cut if he made an academic level assessment of my solution. Still waiting to hear from the team but I am worried now about that final algo round otherwise an excellent interview process.

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      sqrt of a number to the nearest integer.
      1 Answer

      Question 2

      Given an array break it down into k subsets with each subset's sum equaling a constant M. For e.g. [4, 2, 1, 3, 2, 3, 5] and k=4 you should return true because that whole array can be broken down into {4,1}, {2,3}, {2,3}, {5} which equal to a sum of 5. Imagine how confused you would be if you are thinking on a solution and he forgot that last integer 5 in that array for about 10 minutes.
      1 Answer
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