Full Stack Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

May 10, 2019

Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Phone screen. Absolutely absurd questions to ask a programmer.

In the rare case you'd need to know something like the port number for SMTP, which I can't say I ever have, you'd just Google it.

I don't understand what they're doing or why they think this is a good way to evaluate people.

Questions

Port Numbers of SMTP, SSH, HTTP, etc.

Command to get the line count of a file in Linux.

Name the types of DNS records and their uses.

Interview Statistics

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LinkedIn's interview process for their Full Stack Engineer roles in San Francisco, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

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Candidates reported having very negative feelings for LinkedIn's Full Stack Engineer interview process in San Francisco, California.

LinkedIn Interview Questions

Binary Tree Upside Down

Medium

Transform a binary tree so that the original left-most leaf becomes the new root. The original root becomes a left child, and the original right child becomes the right child of the original root's parent.

TreesRecursion

Insert Delete GetRandom O(1)

Medium

Design a data structure that supports insert, delete, and getRandom operations, all in average O(1) time. The getRandom method should return a random element from the current set of elements.

ArraysStringsDynamic ProgrammingGreedy Algorithms

Nested List Weight Sum II

Medium

You're given a nested list of integers where each integer has a depth. Calculate the weighted sum of all integers, where the weight is the depth of the integer from the bottom of the nested structure.

ArraysRecursion