J'ai postulé via un recruteur. Le processus a pris 4 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez LinkedIn
Entretien
Got contacted by a recruiter via linkedin. Did an initial phone interview on ml concepts and coding and according to the recruiter it went so well that they did not need me to do another one.
Got invited to the campus for an onsite which I can name more a torture than an interview; staring from about 9:30 am lasting until 5pm. 7 interviews in a day!!!!! Unstructured interview; I was doing the interview for a data science/software engineering position; open ended questions; some interviewers were more after math/theory and some high level software design and some not sure! It was hard to figure who is looking for what and how to form a proper answer. One of the interviewers was a little rude even though he was 15-20 mins late for the interview. Generally not a good experience. The campus and food were great though.
Got a call from recruiter a few days later. "Your interview went well but we couldn't find any position for you. I tried to find a team by passing your resume over but unfortunately we don't have an open position at the time"! A simple question for them: Why the hell do you interview people then? Why the hell do you waste people's times by sending bunch of bol... job opening messages over and over? Interesting that after I did the onsite and was waiting for the feedback, there was another linkedIn recruiter contacting me about open engineering position at linkedin!!!!
J'ai passé un entretien chez LinkedIn (Sunnyvale, CA)
Entretien
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.
Questions d'entretien [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.
J'ai passé un entretien chez LinkedIn (Londres, Angleterre)
Entretien
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.