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Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jan 2011 in Mountain View, CA (took 2 weeks)

Interviewed by the recruiter , then 1:1 interviews with Engineering Manager, followed by an on-site group/panel interview. The interview sessions went fairly well (I thought). Received feedback after 5 days that the engineering team declined to make an offer

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Message queues

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Overall Negative Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jun 2011 in Mountain View, CA (took a day)

They asked me to have an internet connection open and use collabedit. The interviewer kept getting phone calls and kept going out and in and was hardly focused on the interview. He also complained that he is working on someone else's laptop and could not work properly on it. I got 2 questions shown below and after answering them I got an email from the recruiter saying it was not a match.

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Validate if given string is a number.

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Implement put and take in a blocking queue.

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3.0

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Overall Negative Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Jan 2008 in Mountain View, CA (took 1+ week)

Arduous and confused. They had almost no HR process in place

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What do you think of Google's development process?

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If you had the chance to tell Reid Hoffman what to focus on what would it be?

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Negotiation Details

I was able to negotiate stock. But no cash bonus.

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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Personality Test.

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Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jul 2010 (took a day)

Was asked about javascript singleton pattern, private, public vars

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print a list of numbers in a row/column format vertically

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Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Feb 2010 in Mountain View, AR (took a day)

LinkedIn used two initial phone screens (one with a recruiter, one with a hiring manager), followed by a day of interviews on site. I met with 7 different people on several different functional areas: research, development, and marketing.

Interviews consisted of a mixture of several things: questions about my background and experience, case studies, and technical questions. Interviewers asked specific questions about LinkedIn's products, and asked for ideas on how to design and build these systems.

I have never had as much fun interviewing with a company as I had with LinkedIn. I had a number of very intellectually interesting discussions. I also found that LinkedIn engineers were very friendly and outgoing; I got the sense that the goal of the interviews was as much to see if they wanted to work with you as it was to see if you could contribute technically.

If you are interviewing with LinkedIn, you'll find it helpful to learn something about LinkedIn's products. You should definitely spend some time using different features on the LinkedIn web site (suggestions, groups, messages), and should also do some research on the company itself (magazine articles, open source software projects, etc).

Interview Questions

One interviewer described a technical problem that he was trying to solve and asked how to transform it into a map step and reduce step (or set of steps) to use Hadoop.

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Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Aug 2009 in Mountain View, CA (took a day)

Great interviewer with lots of great technical questions - and answers to go along when I did not know them. Wasn't a fit in the end, but we had a good conversation none the less.