LinkedIn interview notes, page 11 of 32

“The whiteboard part is what gets people.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at LinkedIn, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I knew the basics going in but the edge cases tripped me up.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at LinkedIn, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Blanked for a second because I kept thinking about maximum subarray sum (Kadane's) and tried to apply the same logic directly.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at LinkedIn, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This question is basically six questions stitched together and the interviewer will pull on whichever thread they want, so pacing yourself is genuinely hard.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at LinkedIn, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I jumped straight into the metrics funnel which felt right but I skipped clarifying the timeframe and magnitude first, which I think cost me points early on.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at LinkedIn, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This is the kind of question where you can tell they want you to keep talking and keep going deeper.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at LinkedIn, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Straightforward join and count distinct, nothing fancy.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at LinkedIn, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The full outer join part tripped me up a bit.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at LinkedIn, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Pretty standard but easy to fumble if you go on autopilot.” The rest of the author's notes on AI Engineer interview at LinkedIn, Onsite - Multi Round round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I jumped straight into LRU and they pushed back almost immediately, asking why ranking specifically.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at LinkedIn, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.