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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Mountain View, California

August 1, 2016
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I applied online and had a 1-hour phone interview. I was asked to code on CollabEdit. The questions were of average difficulty and easy to code. I finished coding three questions in 20-30 minutes, and the interviewer ran out of questions. We then discussed the position's requirements.

However, I was rejected within two days, despite performing very well in the interview and coding all questions correctly, which the interviewer even confirmed. I received the rejection because I could not ask more detailed questions to the interviewer and directly jumped to coding.

This is what I did not like. The interviewer tested my code with his inputs and could not find any bugs, but he was still not happy with me and eventually rejected me because of his ego. I would not have expected this from LinkedIn.

Questions

Isomorphic strings

LCA

String to Integer

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 63 interview experiences for the LinkedIn Software Engineer role in Mountain View, California.

Success Rate

24%
Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive49%
Neutral27%
Negative24%

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

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