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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Mountain View, California

December 1, 2014
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Process

The first round was behavioral. They asked about how I got into CS and other standard questions about my interests.

The second round was an hour-long technical interview.

The third round consisted of two one-hour-long interviews.

The fourth round was a discussion with the team.

Questions

Question Description: Write a function that, given a list of integers (both positive and negative), returns the sum of the contiguous subsequence with the maximum sum.

Thus, given the sequence (1, 2, -4, 1, 3, -2, 3, -1), it should return 5.

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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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