Site Reliability Engineer Interview Experience - Mountain View, California
January 1, 2016
Positive ExperienceNo Offer
Process
First, there was a phone screen by a recruiter. It was quite easy, but some questions were tricky. You don't need to get all of them right. During the interview, the recruiter told me that she would put me through to the next stage.
A few days later, I took the coding interview. There were four questions:
- First was a FizzBuzz type question.
- Second and third were both log parsing.
- The last one involved LinkedIn RESTful API calling and recursion.
I had trouble understanding the third question during the process, so I didn't make it. But I found it was actually quite easy afterwards.
By the way, I am not sure whether they called through phone or internet; the voice quality was really not good. This seems to be the case for Facebook too.
Questions
Print all statistics of every process name and its log for every minute of a piece of system log.
In other words, use the minute as the row title and print all statistics in the corresponding minutes.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 15 interview experiences for the LinkedIn Site Reliability Engineer role in Mountain View, California.
Success Rate
20%
Pass Rate
LinkedIn's interview process for their Site Reliability Engineer roles in Mountain View, California is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.
Experience Rating
Positive87%
Neutral0%
Negative13%
Candidates reported having very good feelings for LinkedIn's Site Reliability Engineer interview process in Mountain View, California.
LinkedIn Work Experiences
4.0
Great People, Too Big
Site Reliability Engineer • Current Employee
Mountain View, California, United States
February 17, 2014
Pros: The people, culture, and definitely the benefits are amazing.
Cons: It is getting too big.
5.0
Great Culture, Slow Pace
Site Reliability Engineer • Current Employee
Mountain View, California, United States
May 3, 2021
Pros: Great culture, great work-life balance, and great food.
Cons: Things move slowly, given its size.
5.0
Genuinely thrilled to work here!
Site Reliability Engineer • Current Employee
Mountain View, California, United States
July 23, 2014
Pros: So, there's the obvious stuff: tons of high-quality free food and beverages, excellent compensation, great benefits, etc. Let's get to the more interesting (and really, more important) stuff.
* Pretty much everyone around is a friendly, down-to-earth human being. I feel like I can talk to my manager openly and frankly without any BS. That's the biggest perk in the world. VP level and above regularly interact with individual contributors. While there is a hierarchy of authority, I honestly feel like the management above is there to help me when I need it, not to dictate to me and abuse my work ethic.
* Besides the free food, there are lots of nice little company-sponsored events and things that happen. You can get professional development training easily. Your work schedule is generally pretty flexible. There are lots of little things like this that add up to really make you feel like LinkedIn actually gives a **** about its employees and doesn't just view them as automatons to work until they burn out.
* The pinball machines, arcade games, and ping pong tables are nice, but the real key is that people actually play them. I've worked at startups where they had games like this, but everyone was always too busy working themselves into the ground to ever actually use them. If my boss walks past me playing pinball in the middle of the day, neither of us is going to think twice about it.
* Despite the fun atmosphere, we do work hard, and in general, everyone is passionate about the work they do. This can lead to long hours for some, but in my experience thus far, long hours are something chosen on an individual basis. It isn't expected of you, nor are you looked down upon if you take care of your work and leave the office at 5.
Cons: Despite the great culture, there are still a few individuals who are difficult to work with -- the same you'd find at any company.
I'd say percentage-wise, there's far less of them at LinkedIn than I have seen other places, but they're still there, standing in the way of progress or taking shortcuts or any of those things that aren't constructive.
My impression is that work-life balance can vary highly between teams. I've had a good experience, but I think there are others for whom it's a little more of a struggle.
- 4.0Great People, Too BigSite Reliability Engineer • Current EmployeeMountain View, California, United StatesFebruary 17, 2014Pros: The people, culture, and definitely the benefits are amazing.Cons: It is getting too big.
- 5.0Great Culture, Slow PaceSite Reliability Engineer • Current EmployeeMountain View, California, United StatesMay 3, 2021Pros: Great culture, great work-life balance, and great food.Cons: Things move slowly, given its size.
- 5.0Genuinely thrilled to work here!Site Reliability Engineer • Current EmployeeMountain View, California, United StatesJuly 23, 2014Pros: So, there's the obvious stuff: tons of high-quality free food and beverages, excellent compensation, great benefits, etc. Let's get to the more interesting (and really, more important) stuff. * Pretty much everyone around is a friendly, down-to-earth human being. I feel like I can talk to my manager openly and frankly without any BS. That's the biggest perk in the world. VP level and above regularly interact with individual contributors. While there is a hierarchy of authority, I honestly feel like the management above is there to help me when I need it, not to dictate to me and abuse my work ethic. * Besides the free food, there are lots of nice little company-sponsored events and things that happen. You can get professional development training easily. Your work schedule is generally pretty flexible. There are lots of little things like this that add up to really make you feel like LinkedIn actually gives a **** about its employees and doesn't just view them as automatons to work until they burn out. * The pinball machines, arcade games, and ping pong tables are nice, but the real key is that people actually play them. I've worked at startups where they had games like this, but everyone was always too busy working themselves into the ground to ever actually use them. If my boss walks past me playing pinball in the middle of the day, neither of us is going to think twice about it. * Despite the fun atmosphere, we do work hard, and in general, everyone is passionate about the work they do. This can lead to long hours for some, but in my experience thus far, long hours are something chosen on an individual basis. It isn't expected of you, nor are you looked down upon if you take care of your work and leave the office at 5.Cons: Despite the great culture, there are still a few individuals who are difficult to work with -- the same you'd find at any company. I'd say percentage-wise, there's far less of them at LinkedIn than I have seen other places, but they're still there, standing in the way of progress or taking shortcuts or any of those things that aren't constructive. My impression is that work-life balance can vary highly between teams. I've had a good experience, but I think there are others for whom it's a little more of a struggle.
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