A friend of mine got hired at LinkedIn sfo office as staff software engineer without a single coding interview. He has been working in big data for few years. Contrary to this, In my phone screen, interviewer asked me 1 medium and 1 hard question. Want to know exactly how it works. My friend also doesn't have any clue why he is so easily hired(just based on project work) Why is not their process same for all. #leetcode #linkedin
Couple of engineers I closely worked with for 2-3 years at eBay were hired by LinkedIn. I always wondered how the hell they were hired at eBay itself. When they went to LinkedIn, I was shocked!!
My friend got hired without coding, and I failed phone screen because of 1 medium and 1 hard leetcode. We both had referral.
Do these people have some kind of advantage, like a top university degree, or tech minority status? And did they do any design interviews?
He was just asked about project. I completely accept that project he was working on was awesome. But his college was not even among top 50 if you are asking about college
Also I know his referral was strong, from a manager who is his friend too. But whatever be the case. I just want to understand, how is it still justifiable.
I don’t think LinkedIn recruiting process Is screwed up
Haha. You wish. Their coding questions are all leaked to a closed group and the set is very small
Closed group? Does leetcode LinkedIn tagged questions represent an accurate set?
Or what if they LCed their ass off everyday and still performed well at your work while you didn't even notice they were preparing for interviews all along.
That is news to me. If such things happen, then it is extremely rare
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At staff level do people still write code?
He might be lying to you. Did you sit with him during interviews? Stop posting bullshit
Read everything. He is my flatmate. He didn't have any phone screen. He is smart/intelligent for sure but I can gaurantee he never did leetcode or any other algorithms prep. I won't give more explanation than this. Better evaluate your company policy than barking on my post.
That might tell you that you don't want to join that office at least. Must end up with crap colleagues.
Who would care about crap colleagues when you are getting paid nearly half a million dollar for pretty average work.
To some people the colleagues they are working with matters.