I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn (Toronto, ON) in Dec 2020
Interview
When I had interviewed, there was a recruiter phone screen, a take home coding challenge, an onsite with 2 engineers-- one conversational/personality screen and one coding based interview. It was an enjoyable experience overall. The engineers were very nice and great to speak with.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement a distribution function. Some questions about past team experiences, etc.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn in Oct 2019
Interview
Was contacted by a recruiter via email. Set up a phone call to talk to recruiter, discuss interests, etc. Then had two back to back technical interviews. One was for data mining with a data scientist, the other was algorithmic/data structures based.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Data Mining: given a function that returns a 0 with probability p and 1 with probability (1-p), create a function that returns 1 and 0 with 0.5 probability each.
DS/A: Given two sorted lists, create functions that would perform a set union and set intersections on the lists
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn (San Francisco, CA) in Jan 2016
Interview
I had two phone screens, one hour each. Both interviews were supposed to be coding + machine learning questions. The recruiter pointed out that every interviewer has their own style. The interviewers were very nice and had very cool questions. I had some hard time solving the coding problem right away, but they did a great job providing hints and guiding me to find the solution.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- Rejection sampling
- General machine learning questions