The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn
Interview
at career fair, one of the engineer was interested in my experience and got invited to dinner with about 10 other students. Then after two weeks, a recruiter reached out to ask my preference for programming language and what other companies I was talking with.
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Question 1
It was pretty standardized. The interview just asked some basic background about myself and asked hash table, and asked to give run time analysis. This was like a refresh for memory. The second question was to implement the function for power and gave run time analysis. But I havent heard back yet.
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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