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Software Engineer Interview Experience

May 1, 2013
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The hiring process was pretty standard: a phone screen, followed by a phone technical interview, etc.

The technical interview was awful. I ended up getting all their questions correct, but they stressed efficiency so much that I had to make my code significantly more complicated just to satisfy them.

I personally think this is a terrible mentality. I believe other factors, such as code readability and maintainability, are more important, even with a marginal sacrifice in performance.

Questions

How to validate if a binary search tree is legit?

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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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