I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at LinkedIn in Apr 2014
Interview
Contacted by recruiters through linkedin, the process took less than a week, and then had an initial phone interview followed by another phone screen. After 2 days the recruiter got back to me providing a negative response. Nothing was serious, the questions are straightforward there is no tricks or any difficult problems, it's just if you did anything wrong and didn't correct it and even if you correct it; it could be a red flag to them, also the speed is very important. The recruiter didn't have much details to share with me and he told me that there is nothing serious, but, this is how it works, for me; I didn't know the criteria they judged about.
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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.