I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at LinkedIn (Urbana, IL) in Sept 2013
Interview
Get contacted by recruiter and set up a phone interview. There're 2 interviewer at the same time, one senior engineer and one engineer who's just 4 months out of college. Questions are very easy. But I've already had two other interviews that day and gets pretty tired. And the younger engineer was keep pushing me and talking all the time when I was coding and show how knowledgeable he is. He interrupts me all the time, even when I call a helper function which I plan to implement later. I can't think under this situation and skewed up the interview.
One week later the recruiter called me to inform me about the rejection, when I'm in a lecture.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Nothing difficult if you're under a quite environment.
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.
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