The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn in Nov 2012
Interview
** Phone Interview (1 hour)
Simple coding questions and Object oriented questions.
** Onsite Interview (6.5 hours)
2x simple coding interviews, 1x design architecture interview, 1x interview with higher up management + lunch, 1x HR.
I would not recommend people to apply or work at this company because management issues can be seen even during the interview process:
1) Each interview you get a senior interviewer and a junior interviewer, during the interview I can see the junior interviewer trying to please the senior interviewer and get attention from the senior interviewer.
2) Higher management guy I met with did not have fond words to say about LinkedIn. When we had lunch, we bumped into a lot of people but no one greeted him. I did not get a feeling that higher management is very liked/approachable by others in the company.
Interviewed for an SDE role. The process was well-organized and the recruiters were responsive throughout. That said, the technical rounds were significantly more challenging than expected — definitely come prepared to go deep. Overall a valuable experience regardless of the outcome.
That was a real stroke of luck — when I got to the coding round and encountered a question on finding the maximum subarray sum, I had literally seen this exact problem on prachub.com a few days earlier. The interview kicked off with a recruiter screen, followed by a technical phone interview. It was intense, especially with the focus on algorithms and data structures. I also faced some behavioral questions that challenged my experience. After a final onsite round, I received an offer and happily accepted. Overall, it was tough but rewarding.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an integer array nums, find the contiguous subarray (containing at least one number) which has the largest sum and return its sum. Walk through Kadane's algorithm and explain the O(n) approach.
Overall, a good interview process and the team were very friendly during the interview process and it was very good and pleasant. Nothing in regard to negative feedback or anything as such like that.
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