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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Sunnyvale, California

July 1, 2015
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I applied through a recruiter. The recruiter was polite and helpful. She explained the process and sent some preparation material for reference.

After 2.5 weeks, one phone round was arranged. The interviewer started by asking for a brief introduction, present and past job experience, challenges faced in work, etc. Then, they asked me to solve a coding problem pasted on Collabedit. I used Python to solve it. The question was not difficult, though I made a small mistake in the code.

Finally, the interviewer asked if I had any questions for him. The total time of the phone call was around 50 minutes.

Questions

Given a nested list of integers, return the sum of all integers in the list weighted by their depth.

For example, given the list {{1,1},2,{1,1}}, the function should return 10 (four 1's at depth 2, one 2 at depth 1).

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 37 interview experiences for the LinkedIn Software Engineer role in Sunnyvale, California.

Success Rate

32%
Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive57%
Neutral22%
Negative22%

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

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