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      Principal Software Engineer Interview

      22 Nov 2011
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience

      Other Principal Software Engineer interview reviews for LinkedIn

      Principal Software Engineer Interview

      19 Feb 2023
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Declined offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      Average interview

      Application

      The process took 1 day. I interviewed at LinkedIn in Nov 2011

      Interview

      Some of the interview questions were decent (e.g. intersection of two number arrays) but non-coding questions were about a decade old. Especially when interviewing someone for a Principal position, lame questions can be avoided e.g. Question is: Would you prefer Java over any other language? Ans. I don't know all programming languages. I can compare against the ones i know. You can guess the response. Overall, it was pretty bad (i didn't learn anything, except not to interview here again).

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Intersection of 2 number arrays.
      2 Answers
      1

      I interviewed at LinkedIn

      Interview

      Cakewalk of an interview. Nobody knew anything about the role or its expectations. Same questions from a question bank. Questions are available on Google search in a couple of minutes. No wrong answers.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Did you open source anything?
      Answer question

      Principal Software Engineer Interview

      3 Apr 2014
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Mountain View, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at LinkedIn (Mountain View, CA)

      Interview

      The initial communication was good and the recruiter did a good job of arranging a coding test on collabedit. The interviewer was very unprofessional. Came late and hurried up the interview and the other person didn't turn up at all. Also the interviewer didn't know what she was working on !!!

      Principal Software Engineer Interview

      14 Dec 2011
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at LinkedIn in Dec 2011

      Interview

      I was contacted by a Linkedin recruiter. After having a 1:1 sessions with development leads was called for an onsite. My technical interviews I thought went reasonably well but I was declined.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Given a large document and a short pattern consisting of a few words (eg. W1 W2 W3), find the shortest string that has all the words in any order (for eg. W2 foo bar dog W1 cat W3 -- is a valid pattern)
      3 Answers