I applied through other source. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn (San Francisco, CA) in Nov 2017
Interview
I was contacted by a recruiter, had an initial call, and then moved on to the technical phone screen. Technical phone screen was pretty much what I expected from glassdoor. I was given the impression that LinkedIn likes to asks multiple questions on the phone screen (and thus won't likely ask anything above uncommon leetcode mediums), and only practiced easy/medium questions that appeared at high frequency. This paid off, as all the algorithms questions I was asked were all on leetcode (and asked in the exact same way as leetcode) and were all high frequency question. In the end, I had to turn down the request for an onsite interview because I had accepted an offer elsewhere.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
High frequency leetcode easies/mediums that are tagged under LinkedIn.
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.