I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at LinkedIn in Apr 2015
Interview
LinkedIn recruiter reached out to me on LinkedIn :)
Phone interview was scheduled for the following week. Recruiter sent me LinkedIn profiles of interviewer. As mentioned my multiple other candidates, they usually have 2 person on the telephonic interview. 2nd person is usually shadowing the main interviewer.
I received a phone call at the scheduled time and was given an algorithmic problem. I started discussing my approach and had a working solution with good complexity. The interview kept pushing me towards his solution even though it was not an improvement on my solution in terms of complexity. I did not push enough to keep my solution and tried to implement the approach suggested by interviewer. There wasn't enough time to complete the solution and I was stuck in between since I did not understand clearly the direction he wanted me to go.
This was pretty bad, that interviewer was so adamant around directing me towards his solution. He was pretty rude as well and did not take time to understand my solution at all. I have interviewed with LinkedIn before (during my graduation) and was really bad experience there as well. The last time I even heard the other interviewer laughing as I was writing my solution.
LinkedIn, you are a great engineering company and I really like some of the open source projects you have, but I would never want to work with arrogant and rude people on team. I hope this gets communicated back to interview panel.
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Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an integer array nums, find the contiguous subarray (containing at least one number) which has the largest sum and return its sum. Walk through Kadane's algorithm and explain the O(n) approach.
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