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Software Engineer Interview Experience

July 17, 2013
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Submitted resume online.

Email from recruiter same day.

Phone screen with recruiter.

Technical phone screen with online coding exercise with hiring manager a week later.

Another technical phone screen with an engineer in the group.

On-site interviews with multiple engineers.

Questions

At the end of a long day of interviews, I was asked about a prior success in my career. I was not told that there was a second, more critical part of the interview: another coding exercise at the whiteboard.

Code a non-blocking, thread-safe queue.

Code a text justification routine (given a line length, insert whitespace so text is uniformly displayed within the given length).

Both are fairly straightforward, but I had spent time on the first portion.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 285 interview experiences for the LinkedIn Software Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

16%
Pass Rate

LinkedIn's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in the United States is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive49%
Neutral26%
Negative26%

Candidates reported having good feelings for LinkedIn's Software Engineer interview process in United States.

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