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Senior SRE Interview Experience - India

March 11, 2025

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

It was a smooth process.

HR called me and scheduled an interview. There were two rounds:

Coding: They asked almost the same questions mentioned here by others.
Operational round: Three questions were asked related to the curl process, 3-tier monitoring, and how I could move a file to 10,000 servers. Again, these questions were mentioned here by others.

The interviewers were friendly, easy to talk to, and heard me out properly.

Questions

FizzBuzz

API

Merge and Sort 2 lists

Curl

Transfer file to many servers

3-tier architecture monitoring

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the LinkedIn Senior SRE role in India.

Success Rate

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Pass Rate

LinkedIn's interview process for their Senior SRE roles in India is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

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Candidates reported having very good feelings for LinkedIn's Senior SRE interview process in India.

LinkedIn Work Experiences

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Pros: Work-life balance Culture TC Growth prospects

Cons: Lots of internal tools, difficult onboarding process.

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Pros: Work-life balance Culture TC Growth prospects

Cons: Lots of internal tools, difficult onboarding process.

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Great place to work

Senior SRE • Current Employee

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Pros: LinkedIn empowers its employees to achieve great things. Everyone is trying their best to maintain integrity and to satisfy our users without being evil.

Cons: Usual cons of a big corporation, nothing specific to LinkedIn.

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Pros: LinkedIn empowers its employees to achieve great things. Everyone is trying their best to maintain integrity and to satisfy our users without being evil.

Cons: Usual cons of a big corporation, nothing specific to LinkedIn.

Nice place to work at!

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Pros: Work-life balance Culture TC Growth prospects

Cons: Lots of internal tools, difficult onboarding process.

5.0
Nice place to work at!
Senior SRE • Current Employee
February 7, 2023
Pros: Work-life balance Culture TC Growth prospects
Cons: Lots of internal tools, difficult onboarding process.

Interns Come Here To Die

Senior SRE • Current Employee

December 10, 2022

Pros: While it may seem appealing on their website, you don’t want to work there.

Cons: LI, as it is today, is a place where interns come to die. It’s a place where you won’t learn anything valuable for your future career. You may learn how LI works, but it’s all in-house. There’s no valuable knowledge that you can learn from working here. After LI was acquired by MS, it’s no longer the same company it was a couple of years ago. It has its own - rather bad - in-house software, which they can’t afford to have good developers to work on. So they only hire contractors these days to make it function for the time being. There’s no future for any intern who comes to work here. All you’ll learn is LI infrastructure, which is useless for you if you plan to have any future. My suggestion: avoid at all costs! P.S. I’ve been working for LI since 2015. It’s not a place where you want to work.

1.0
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Cons: LI, as it is today, is a place where interns come to die. It’s a place where you won’t learn anything valuable for your future career. You may learn how LI works, but it’s all in-house. There’s no valuable knowledge that you can learn from working here. After LI was acquired by MS, it’s no longer the same company it was a couple of years ago. It has its own - rather bad - in-house software, which they can’t afford to have good developers to work on. So they only hire contractors these days to make it function for the time being. There’s no future for any intern who comes to work here. All you’ll learn is LI infrastructure, which is useless for you if you plan to have any future. My suggestion: avoid at all costs! P.S. I’ve been working for LI since 2015. It’s not a place where you want to work.

Great place to work

Senior SRE • Current Employee

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August 30, 2014

Pros: LinkedIn empowers its employees to achieve great things. Everyone is trying their best to maintain integrity and to satisfy our users without being evil.

Cons: Usual cons of a big corporation, nothing specific to LinkedIn.

5.0
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Senior SRE • Current Employee
San Francisco, California, United States
August 30, 2014
Pros: LinkedIn empowers its employees to achieve great things. Everyone is trying their best to maintain integrity and to satisfy our users without being evil.
Cons: Usual cons of a big corporation, nothing specific to LinkedIn.

LinkedIn Interview Questions

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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.

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Nested List Weight Sum II

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