Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite segnalazione di un dipendente. La procedura ha richiesto una settimana. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso LinkedIn (Sunnyvale, CA) nel mese di feb 2017
Colloquio
I applied through employee referral. Got a phone call from recruiter. They were courteous.promptly. They set me for two 1 hour phone screens, one leadership screen, one technical screen. The leadership screen mostly focused on background. Where you came from, what you did + why. Decisions and projects that were difficult to showcase such. The technical screen was a couple questions and one coding exercise.
I thought I did well on coding question. I wrote the code as problem was stated initially. Then the interviewer added further constraints. Other question was to complete some missing implementations in a C++ class.
Leadership was all right.
I pinged the recruiter after 3 days. Next day, she informed that their hiring committee has decided not to go ahead with onsite interview.
It looks like they are looking for a perfect solution during phone screening!
Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso LinkedIn (Sunnyvale, CA)
Colloquio
Recruiter emailed me for exploring interview. Then, I was invited to a phone screening interview.
I was asked to implement LFU similar data structure. I've never implemented that before. I've done with LRU though. It was very difficult to me to come up with appropriate solution on site.
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
LFU-like question was asked, which was very difficult for me to solve.
Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite un selezionatore. La procedura ha richiesto 4 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso LinkedIn nel mese di lug 2025
Colloquio
3 DSA rounds ( leetcode hard ) + 2 system design rounds + 1 managerial round focussed on projects and behavioural questions. Process was well organised in terms of scheduling.
The interviewers seemed rigid in evaluating candidates by narrow checklists rather than engineering depth. Feedback reflected a bias towards specific solution paths - even when alternate valid approaches were discussed clearly and with tradeoffs.
The interview culture also gave little space for collaborative discussion; it felt more like evaluative than explorative, especially in architecture rounds. I was also penalised for choosing a simple, scalable design before incrementally adding complexity.
Advice to Management"
Staff+ roles demand open mindedness and an appreciation for diverse design perspectives. Encourage interviewers to listen with curiosity rather than just matching against predefined answers.
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
Leetcode hard questions and couple of system design questions
Get contacted for a Silicon Valley position, finished screening and onsite (5 rounds). Have not heard back from anybody after 25 days, even after I followed up with the recruiter at the 14 day mark.
