The process took 2 days. I interviewed at LinkedIn (Mountain View, CA) in Jul 2011
Interview
Recruiter contacted me in Friday afternoon through LinkedIn, their own website. I told them I have a pending offer, and they scheduled phone screening on Monday, and then on-site interview on Tuesday. Very efficient. When I get the interview confirmation letter, I am surprised that I need to meet a dozen interviews. Actually, I stayed in a meeting room and interviewers came in pairs and asked me questions. It seems that one of them is the primary interviewer and the other just shadowing him/her.
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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