I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at LinkedIn in Jan 2015
Interview
I was contacted by a LinkedIn recruiter a few months ago (by November, 2014 I think) about a position in Software Engineering area. After the first phone screen (non technical) I was scheduled my first technical phone interview, I decided to take 2 months to get ready and warming up in Algorithms and Data Structures. Finally I finish my first interview very disappointed (with my self) because the interview question was so easy that I could have wrote the solution in less than 15 minutes and I spent almost 45, thanks to my nerves. The interviewer was polite, well explained and called on time, I have no complains about that.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a function to determine if a string is a number without using any built-in function.
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.