I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at LinkedIn (Mountain View, CA) in Aug 2016
Interview
Applied online, Got a 1 hr phone interview, Asked to code on collabedit. It was average difficulty question and easy to code, I could finish coding 3 questions in 20-30 min and interviewer ran out the question then we discussed about the position requirement.
But I got rejection in 2 days irrespective of I performed very well in an Interview , coded all questions correctly even confirmed by Interviewer but I got rejection because I could not ask more question details to interviewer and directly jumped to coding.
that's I did not like, Interviewer did test my code with his inputs but could not found any bug but still he was not happy with me and eventually rejected me because of his ego. I would have not expected from Linkedin this
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.