LinkedIn interview notes, page 6 of 32

“This one tripped me up more than I expected.” 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 started with the functional requirements which felt okay, multiple window sizes, per-region vs global aggregation, query latency targets.” 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 went straight to the user problem angle, which felt right, but I spent too long on the setup and barely had time to prioritize between ideas.” 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.

“Prefix sum plus binary search, pretty standard.” 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.

“My first instinct was to just call the function a bunch of times and map ranges, which is completely wrong because you can't fix bias that way.” 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.

“Classic improve-a-product question but the fact that it's their own product adds some pressure.” 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 mechanics but fumbled the explanation.” 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 got the core loop down fine: initialize centroids, assign points by nearest Euclidean distance, recompute means, repeat.” 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.

“My first instinct was to just build the digit string for each word and throw everything into a hashmap keyed by that string.” 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.

“Classic BFS word ladder.” 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.