LinkedIn interview notes, page 19 of 32

“I went straight to acquisition and kind of forgot that retention for students is a completely different beast.” 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.

“The core Kadane's logic came back to me pretty fast: track the max sum ending at the current position and decide whether to extend the running total or restart from the current element.” 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 had a story ready but I spent too long on the backstory and barely got to what made it actually excellent.” 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.

“I went with the usual suspects: oversampling the minority class, undersampling the majority, or adjusting class weights in the model.” 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 is way more than the usual 'state the Big-O and move on.' They wanted me to actually derive it and justify each case separately, not just say O(n log n) and shrug.” 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.

“This is one of those questions that looks manageable until they start asking why at every single step.” 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 knew the LC 380 version cold, array plus hashmap, swap-with-last on remove, done.” 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 O(log n) requirement is basically telling you binary search, but the rotation breaks the usual assumption that one side is always smaller.” 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 is the kind of question where the wrong move is pretending the conflict doesn't exist.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at LinkedIn, Onsite - Cross-functional / Panel round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This is where I started rambling.” 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.