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Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience - Mountain View, California

August 1, 2014
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I was contacted on LinkedIn by a recruiter.

We scheduled a time to talk on the phone. During the phone conversation, the recruiter explained the process and we scheduled the first phone interview.

I had a total of two phone interviews. Both were conducted by two engineers and involved problem-solving and questions.

I was then scheduled for an in-house interview.

The in-house interview consisted of five interviews:

  • Two covered coding.
  • One covered system design.
  • One covered teamwork (which was also a design question).
  • The last covered engineering communication.

All except for one interview were conducted by two engineers.

Questions

A multithreading question. Had I prepared for this, it would have been easy. But noting I've been programming in a single-threaded environment for the last 4 years, I struggled with this.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 20 interview experiences for the LinkedIn Senior Software Engineer role in Mountain View, California.

Success Rate

25%
Pass Rate

LinkedIn's interview process for their Senior Software Engineer roles in Mountain View, California is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive45%
Neutral20%
Negative35%

Candidates reported having good feelings for LinkedIn's Senior Software Engineer interview process in Mountain View, California.

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