I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn (Mountain View, CA) in Nov 2015
Interview
1 round design; 2 rounds algo + data structure; 1 round tech communication; 1 round HM
Tech questions were something very common. I killed them quickly. The HM gave me a very high level question like how to backup between two servers. no assumption was given. no guidance. I had no idea what he wanted, and he just kept smiling. I'd already known what would happen at that moment. Bad experience. Advice: try to avoid those kind of HMs who plan to hire their relatives. Comparing to FB, the interview culture here is very different.
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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