I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn (Sunnyvale, CA) in Sep 2018
Interview
I had a phone round where I was asked a few Java concepts followed by three coding exercises. The call lasted for an hour and the interviewer was nice to speak to. I later had an onsite interview with 6 rounds, of which 3 were system design and 2 coding questions. The process is exhausting as it takes 7 hours at a stretch including the lunch round. Most of the engineers were nice to speak to except for a couple of them. One Senior Engineer who asked me a system design question had a set answer in his mind and wanted me to come to that which I found annoying even though my approach was as good as his which he eventually agreed to. One of the coding round was with a junior engineer and he lacked experience which was clearly visible because he wasn't able to follow my code and also his instructions were contrasting from the beginning of the interview to the one at the end.
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Question 1
Coding round was to implement a HashMap with primitives and find all the palindromic subsequence. System design rounds I would were specific to LinkedIn.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn (Sunnyvale, CA) in Aug 2018
Interview
The process could be more efficient with respect to having multiple points of contact throughout the interview process. The recruiters are great but often a bit unresponsive. They do a great job of getting you excited about the company which is a great feeling
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Question 1
Find the number of possible permutations of paths given n number of stairs and 1, 2 or 3 stairs jump
I applied online. I interviewed at LinkedIn in Sep 2018
Interview
After you submit your resume to the linkedin software engineer position, an OA will be sent to your email, and you should finish it within 75 minutes. There are two coding question, which can all be found on leetcode.
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Question 1
two coding questions: cut the stick and friend circle