LinkedIn interview notes, page 15 of 32

“This question is basically five questions dressed up as one.” 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.

“I started with a single mutex just to get something working, which felt embarrassingly simple but the interviewer didn't push back immediately.” 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.

“The traversal logic itself clicked pretty fast.” 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.

“I started with a star schema and talked through fact tables for user activity, connections, job applications, that kind of thing.” 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.

“This one sprawled fast.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning 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.

“The sort-and-merge part I handled fine.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning 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 answer was the median from some vague memory but actually proving it on the spot was a different story.” 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.

“My first instinct was linear scan, which, yeah, immediately wrong given the constraint.” 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 push/pop/top part is trivial and I kind of rushed through it, which in hindsight was dumb because I should've used that time to think about the max operations.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at LinkedIn, Onsite - Coding / Algorithms round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I had a decent story ready but fumbled the part about what I actually did differently to fix things.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager 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.