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      Software Engineer Interview

      Jun 11, 2015
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at LinkedIn in Jun 2015

      Interview

      Recruiter contacted me. Set up a phone interview. I was informed there will be two interviewers on the phone, but only one of them turned up, not sure if other guy was on mute since he was new to LinkedIn per his linkedIn profile. The interviewer's body language revealed a lot about him. He was trying to be nice, but that wasn't really true. Asked me about skill set and then moved to technical part. First 35-40 minutes was about c++ questions and multi-threading. Then last 20 minutes or so was coding question. Overall the interview lasted for 1 hour. I took about 5-10 minutes to understand the question, primarily because there was about 30 lines of code pasted in collabedit already. When I tried to ask a question to clarify, I was told there is nothing to ask, everything is on collabedit. I guess I will let you guess his attitude. I explained him my pseudocode before coding and he seemed to be happy with it. I almost was done with the solution by end of 1 hour, but I guess that does not count. He did not give me a chance to ask my questions. To summarize, a lot of reviews on glassdoor says they repeat the questions. That was not the case with me, so please be prepared completely. Just don't depend completely on glassdoor. Go to leetcode, hackerrank, geeksforgeeks and careercup. As for books, cracking the coding interviews is awesome! Its not even one day yet, so I haven't heard back from recruiter, but I am not expecting a good result.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      1. What is a mutex, semaphore 2. What is virtual memory, paging. Why is it required to swap pages, etc.. 3. What is virtual destructor (explain with some code). 4. The code was pasted in collabedit. Its an easy problem to solve, but only if you understand the problem in 5 minutes. I had about 20 minutes in total. (You might see the interviewer has mixed Java and C++. There is no public/private access specifier. Integer class is only in Java, coding standards are according to Java specifications, but I guess you get the point of the question, so that's not a problem). /** * Given a nested list of integers, returns the sum of all integers in the list weighted by their depth * For example, given the list {{1,1},2,{1,1}} the function should return 10 (four 1's at depth 2, one 2 at depth 1) * Given the list {1,{4,{6}}} the function should return 27 (one 1 at depth 1, one 4 at depth 2, and one 6 at depth 3) */ int depthSum (NestedInteger *input, int count) {} /** * This is the interface that represents nested lists. * You should not implement it, or speculate about its implementation. */ class NestedInteger { /** @return true if this NestedInteger holds a single integer, rather than a nested list */ boolean isInteger(); /** @return the single integer that this NestedInteger holds, if it holds a single integer * Return null if this NestedInteger holds a nested list */ Integer getInteger(); /** @return the nested list that this NestedInteger holds, if it holds a nested list * Return null if this NestedInteger holds a single integer */ NestedInteger *getList(); int getCount(); }
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      LinkedIn interviews FAQs

      • Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at LinkedIn with 3.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 54.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
      • Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 23 days to get hired, when considering 316 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at LinkedIn overall takes an average of 28 days.
      • Common stages of the interview process at LinkedIn as a Software Engineer according to 316 Glassdoor interviews include:

        Phone interview:  48%

        One on one interview:  19%

        Skills test:  12%

        Group panel interview:  8%

        Presentation:  6%

        Background check:  3%

        Personality test:  2%

        IQ intelligence test:  1%

        Other:  1%

        Drug test:  1%

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