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Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience - Mountain View, California

December 1, 2013
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Applied to the position via LinkedIn.

Was contacted by a recruiter for an initial phone screen to discuss the job.

Scheduled a 1-hour technical phone screen with two engineers the following week. During the interview, we used CollabEdit. Most of the interview consisted of technical trivia questions with one coding exercise using Python and regular expressions.

Questions

Not difficult, but unexpected. What are the differences between processes and threads?

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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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