I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn
Interview
Was contacted by a recruiter through LinkedIn (very meta) and given two weeks preparation. The interviewer I was scheduled with wasn't the one who ended up interviewing me, and instead it was someone who had a very tough time speaking English and explaining the problems. I solved both questions, but it took a long time before I would understand what he meant when trying to explain them. This chewed up a substantial chunk of the interview time (for example, it took ~5-10 minutes to even get to the collaborative online editor because I couldn't understand the letters he was pronouncing in the URL).
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Write a function that, given a list of integers (both positive and negative) returns the sum of the contiguous subsequence with maximum sum. Thus, given the sequence (1, 2, -4, 1, 3, -2, 3, -1) it should return 5.
Write a program that takes an integer and prints out all ways to multiply smaller integers that equal the original number, without repeating sets of factors. In other words, if your output contains 4 * 3, you should not print out 3 * 4 again as that would be a repeating set. Note that this is not asking for prime factorization only. Also, you can assume that the input integers are reasonable in size; correctness is more important than efficiency.
PrintFactors(12)
12 * 1
6 * 2
4 * 3
3 * 2 * 2
output all the permutations and compute the code time complexity
if your code is good enough, the time complexity should be n!
but when i was interviewing with the two interviewers, i wrote a n^n solution.
actually, there are recursive and iterative solutions in n! time complexity.
The best solution should call next permutation function n! times.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
output all the permutations and compute the code time complexity
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at LinkedIn in Oct 2014
Interview
Got a first round phone interview. it is a HR and a few general questions like: why do you choose LinkedIn? why do you want to be a software engineer? what is your expectation from our company? what kind of working environment do you want?
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Do you have any hobbies related to technical part? rate your programming skills