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      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

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      Principal Software Engineer Interview

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

      Application

      I interviewed at LinkedIn

      Interview

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      Question 1

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      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 !!!

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