LinkedIn interview notes, page 13 of 32

“Classic problem but I still fumbled the deserialization part a bit.” 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 jumped straight to profile-based signals (job title, industry, connections in sales roles) and forgot about behavioral stuff entirely for like two minutes.” 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.

“Classic opener but it can trip you up if you pick something too obscure or too obvious.” 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.

“I knew the alias method from a stats course a few years back so the core pseudocode came out okay.” 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.

“This one I actually felt okay about.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at LinkedIn, Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I knew the Von Neumann trick from somewhere in the back of my brain, pairs of calls where 01 maps to 0 and 10 maps to 1 and you just retry on 00 or 11.” The rest of the author's notes on AI 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.

“The coding part was fine, recursion felt natural here and I got it working pretty quickly.” 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.

“Got to the min-heap approach pretty quickly, seeding with the first element of nums1 paired with each element of nums2, then expanding lazily.” 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.

“The naive approach works fine for small inputs but you know they're looking for something smarter.” 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 started with the obvious stuff, trie-based prefix matching, caching hot queries, but the LinkedIn angle tripped me up a bit.” 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.