Tech IndustryFeb 8, 2019
OracleSamething

LinkedIn team match

Recently passed HC. I was interviewing in applications track, however recruiter gave me 3 types of teams to match, in her original words: product development, internal platform/tool, or infrastructure. Does that mean I can actually choose infra teams like data infra, Kafka, etc.? What do these terms mean exactly? Appreciate anyone from LinkedIn (or not) to give insights. Thank you! Current TC: 160k.

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Blue Cross Blue Shield JyxL07 Feb 8, 2019

May I ask you how many years of experience you have? And what is your current designation?

Oracle Samething OP Feb 8, 2019

5 years. I don’t understand what’s designation?

LinkedIn g63aR Feb 8, 2019

If you didn’t interview in the Systems and Infra track I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t be working on Kafka. Dunno 🤷‍♂️

Oracle Samething OP Feb 8, 2019

I see. Maybe the recruiter has different interpretations of infrastructure... thanks for the input.

LinkedIn MxAu52 Feb 8, 2019

Yeah, they meant apps teams that work more on the back end not our data infra teams like Kafka- that requires a completely different interview

LinkedIn g63aR Feb 8, 2019

Agreed. Certain products have an infra and tools layer that’s built on top of other infra and tools that are optimized for that specific product.

Oracle Samething OP Feb 8, 2019

Thanks guys, this makes sense.

Salesforce wBfK85 Apr 25, 2019

OP - how many days did it take for your team match?

Oracle done Apr 26, 2019

I finished two matches within a calendar week.

EA cloudGame Sep 5, 2019

Hey Linkedin folks, Can you help me understand the work done by the "Streams" team - "putting LinkedIn Kafka on Azure and scaling their existing technology to serve LinkedIn 3.0" as mentioned in https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/1445120498/. Is it lifting and shifting Kafka running on DataCenters to Azure? How will this be different from the "Azure Kafka" managed service offering or the likes of Confluent's offering?