Software Engineer Interview Experience - Bengaluru, Karnataka

September 1, 2019

Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

LinkedIn was hiring on-campus interns. The first round consisted of three coding questions and five MCQs. The questions were easy; two were very easy, and the third had very weak test cases. Around 10-15 candidates were able to solve all tests correctly.

LinkedIn selected the top three candidates with the highest CGPA and offered them a chance for the second round. Two out of these three were offered internships.

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 7 interview experiences for the LinkedIn Software Engineer role in Bengaluru, Karnataka.

Success Rate

43%

Pass Rate

LinkedIn's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in Bengaluru, Karnataka is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive57%

Neutral14%

Negative29%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for LinkedIn's Software Engineer interview process in Bengaluru, Karnataka.

LinkedIn Interview Questions

Binary Tree Upside Down

Medium

Transform a binary tree so that the original left-most leaf becomes the new root. The original root becomes a left child, and the original right child becomes the right child of the original root's parent.

TreesRecursion

Insert Delete GetRandom O(1)

Medium

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.

ArraysStringsDynamic ProgrammingGreedy Algorithms

Nested List Weight Sum II

Medium

You're given a nested list of integers where each integer has a depth. Calculate the weighted sum of all integers, where the weight is the depth of the integer from the bottom of the nested structure.

ArraysRecursion