I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn
Interview
Interview process started with telephonic interviews with the HR in mountain view. I would receive calls at 11 PM in the night. Being a late sleeper I did not mind this. The HR consulted me for interview time, and made sure I was comfortable with the process. I technical rounds on Skype, which lasted around an hour. The questions were standard, and I was able to clear them easily. After this there was an HR round, which had quite run of the mill questions, like 'why LinkedIn?' and soon the HR was on to the topic of compensation and my role with the company, at which point I knew I was in.
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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