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Senior Software Engineer In Test Interview Experience - Sunnyvale, California

September 1, 2016
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

A recruiter contacted me and set up a phone screen. This was a wonderful job by the recruiter, as she explained in detail what to expect and how to prepare. Once the phone screen was cleared, I was called onsite. Again, there was a great deal of help from her in explaining everything that I could expect in the interviews. The onsite rounds were well organized. All the interviewers were very helpful and knowledgeable.

The people were very happy, and the food was awesome and free.

You will have two coding rounds (which should definitely go well irrespective of other rounds' results). There is one round of code analysis where you will be given a piece of code and asked to find bugs/improvements. Get your basics right here. There will be a test design round in which they test your design skills. A behavioral round with the manager is just a conversation, but it's very important to get it right.

For people going for interviews in the future, I have the following advice:

  • Do all the previous LinkedIn problems found on Careercup and Glassdoor. In fact, just by-heart them (very, very important, as all the questions are exact matches; they have a set of problems that all interviewers use, and everything is on these sites). I found this strange.
  • Make sure you do both coding rounds well. Even though you have other rounds, if you screw up even a single coding round, you will be disqualified irrespective of how well you do in the design and analysis rounds.
  • Show your enthusiasm in the behavioral round.

I will surely apply to LinkedIn again.

Questions

Everything on Careercup and Glassdoor.

(Just search previously asked LinkedIn questions.)

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