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SRE Interview Experience - Sunnyvale, California

November 6, 2018

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Process

1st step: Three screening calls:

One for understanding your profile
One for evaluating your coding skills
One for systems engineering skills

2nd step: An on-site interview made from 6 modules:

Three strongly technical modules (troubleshooting, architecture design, and code reviews)
Three modules for soft skills and career path assessment

3rd step: A one-on-one phone call with a hiring manager for understanding cultural fit

Questions

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 2 interview experiences for the LinkedIn SRE role in Sunnyvale, California.

Success Rate

0%

Pass Rate

LinkedIn's interview process for their SRE roles in Sunnyvale, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive50%

Neutral50%

Negative0%

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

LinkedIn Work Experiences

Great Food, Smart Team

SRE • Current Employee

Sunnyvale, California, United States

November 2, 2017

Pros: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner provided. Challenging environment. Allowed to think about the bigger picture and sideline projects. Lots of very talented coworkers. Focused on the employee and the members. Hardly any Microsoft interference. 50% match 401K.

Cons: Hard to think of any downsides. Infrastructure challenges await us while we scale if we don't change the architecture to meet those challenges.

Great Food, Smart Team

SRE • Current Employee

Sunnyvale, California, United States

November 2, 2017

Pros: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner provided. Challenging environment. Allowed to think about the bigger picture and sideline projects. Lots of very talented coworkers. Focused on the employee and the members. Hardly any Microsoft interference. 50% match 401K.

Cons: Hard to think of any downsides. Infrastructure challenges await us while we scale if we don't change the architecture to meet those challenges.

SRE review at LinkedIn, Bangalore

SRE • Current Employee

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

February 6, 2019

Pros: Good salary Great food Friendly people Cab Chance of US travel

Cons: Poor management. Lack of direction. Not so interesting work.

SRE review at LinkedIn, Bangalore

SRE • Current Employee

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

February 6, 2019

Pros: Good salary Great food Friendly people Cab Chance of US travel

Cons: Poor management. Lack of direction. Not so interesting work.

Great Culture, Time Zone Issues

SRE • Current Employee

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Pros: One of the best facilities in Bangalore. Good work culture, good exposure.

Cons: Time zone is an issue for some teams. US movement is difficult for an SRE.

Great Culture, Time Zone Issues

SRE • Current Employee

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Pros: One of the best facilities in Bangalore. Good work culture, good exposure.

Cons: Time zone is an issue for some teams. US movement is difficult for an SRE.

Great Food, Smart Team

SRE • Current Employee

Sunnyvale, California, United States

November 2, 2017

Pros: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner provided. Challenging environment. Allowed to think about the bigger picture and sideline projects. Lots of very talented coworkers. Focused on the employee and the members. Hardly any Microsoft interference. 50% match 401K.

Cons: Hard to think of any downsides. Infrastructure challenges await us while we scale if we don't change the architecture to meet those challenges.

5.0
Great Food, Smart Team
SRE • Current Employee
Sunnyvale, California, United States
November 2, 2017
Pros: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner provided. Challenging environment. Allowed to think about the bigger picture and sideline projects. Lots of very talented coworkers. Focused on the employee and the members. Hardly any Microsoft interference. 50% match 401K.
Cons: Hard to think of any downsides. Infrastructure challenges await us while we scale if we don't change the architecture to meet those challenges.

SRE review at LinkedIn, Bangalore

SRE • Current Employee

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

February 6, 2019

Pros: Good salary Great food Friendly people Cab Chance of US travel

Cons: Poor management. Lack of direction. Not so interesting work.

4.0
SRE review at LinkedIn, Bangalore
SRE • Current Employee
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
February 6, 2019
Pros: Good salary Great food Friendly people Cab Chance of US travel
Cons: Poor management. Lack of direction. Not so interesting work.

Great Culture, Time Zone Issues

SRE • Current Employee

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Pros: One of the best facilities in Bangalore. Good work culture, good exposure.

Cons: Time zone is an issue for some teams. US movement is difficult for an SRE.

4.0
Great Culture, Time Zone Issues
SRE • Current Employee
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
March 9, 2018
Pros: One of the best facilities in Bangalore. Good work culture, good exposure.
Cons: Time zone is an issue for some teams. US movement is difficult for an SRE.

LinkedIn Interview Questions

Binary Tree Upside Down

Transform a binary tree so that the original left-most leaf becomes the new root. The original root becomes a left child, and the original right child becomes the right child of the original root's parent.

Insert Delete GetRandom O(1)

Design a data structure that supports insert, delete, and getRandom operations, all in average O(1) time. The getRandom method should return a random element from the current set of elements.

ArraysStringsDynamic ProgrammingGreedy Algorithms

Nested List Weight Sum II

You're given a nested list of integers where each integer has a depth. Calculate the weighted sum of all integers, where the weight is the depth of the integer from the bottom of the nested structure.

ArraysRecursion

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