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      Big Data Engineer Interview

      2 Oct 2015
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Mountain View, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at LinkedIn (Mountain View, CA) in May 2015

      Interview

      Applied through a staffing agency. Two rounds - One Phone call and One In-Person Phone call Was supposed to be for 20 minutes but the interviewer doesn't care about interviewee's time, so it went on for almost 70 minutes. Questions were based on deep technical knowledge and almost 20 questions on HR side.. Face to Face interview Worst experience. They don't have plans to accommodate parking or receiving the candidate.. Lost almost an hour.. Two technical rounds with four engineers. Engineers there have great enthusiasm but don't want to listen to your answers since they've their own calendar appointments. One of them was repeatedly, asking me to write a program to store strings in an array. And since the solution was pretty fast, he started digging too much into the basics of JVM and Computer Architecture. There were two or three technical questions to answer but didn't matter. Got a vibe that they are not interested in interviewing, so wrapped up soon and left. Result Made me wait for 21 days before they said, they put the position on indefinite hold; 6 weeks later, they wanted to interview me again, since one of the team members was off to vacation(Labor Day weekend). One week before the schedule, the staffing firm conveys that the position was filled internally.

      Interview questions [3]

      Question 1

      What is REST? How did you use it at your current work place?
      Answer question

      Question 2

      Design a program to take a string and store, each character, into an array. The array should return a count of each character when called. [The interviewer was clearly trying to blur the lines between a simple program and a MapReduce]
      Answer question

      Question 3

      Why LinkedIn?
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