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Software Engineering Interview Experience

January 5, 2015
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I had three interviews.

The first interview was a screening. The interviewer asked simple questions such as:

  • What do you look for in an internship?
  • What are your goals?
  • What type of person are you?

I was then given two different teams to choose from:

  • "Money team" - This team works on products that people will pay for.
  • "Consumer team" - This team constantly gets feedback and works to satisfy users and consumers.

I had a good interview process but was unfortunately not offered a position. They were heavily focused on error handling, perhaps because as such a large company, errors are often thrown to other teams or members.

Questions

Find a triangle in a list of random numbers. A triangle is three numbers such that no one number is larger than the other two numbers added up.

Find all the permutations of a string.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 16 interview experiences for the LinkedIn Software Engineering role in United States.

Success Rate

38%
Pass Rate

LinkedIn's interview process for their Software Engineering roles in the United States is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive88%
Neutral13%
Negative0%

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

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