LinkedIn Interview Questions

Tim W. - "Clarify "What do you mean by favorite product? Are you thinking specifically hardware, software, or a feature within those, or something non-electronic? Dealer's Choice. "Are you asking why I love this product, or to explain why this product is a market leader independent of how i feel about it? Talk about why YOU love this product. Rephrase Question With all that in mind, i want to rephrase the question. "What is your favorite software product and what features in this product"See full answer

PracticalCoder - "I am not clear on the relevance of the "list of valid words" to the original problem statement. It seems to have led the candidate to build a graph. Navigating a graph of all possible paths to the target word is computationally expensive, plus unnecessary as you are navigating the world of "possible" words, whereas to edit characters in a word, you don't necessarily need the intermediate words to be valid. Overall the answer to this problem seems to be to use dynamic programming. It would be g"See full answer

Arjun R. - "Similar to LRU, Keep a Sorted LinkedList based on ranks. To improve efficiency of storage changed to PriorityQueue (minHeap). Later was asked about threading and how you can scale it in a distributed system"See full answer

Bipin R. - "As you know, this is the most important question for any interview. Here is a structure I like to follow, Start with 'I'm currently a SDE/PM/TPM etc with XYZ company.... ' Mention how you got into PM/TPM/SDE field (explaining your journey) Mention 1 or 2 accomplishments Mention what you do outside work (blogging, volunteer etc) Share why are you looking for a new role Ask the interviewer if they have any questions or will like to dive deep into any of your experience"See full answer

Kunal S. - "Clarifying questions: Are there any specific constraints that you want me to take in to account when thinking through this problem : [Interviewer] No Can i think through this in freeform or is there a specific goal we are trying to achieve : [Interviewer] I will let you decide the goal Strategic Analysis: Spotifyies mission is to - "Unlock the potential of human creativity – by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the o"See full answer

D J. - "Clarifying Questions & Assumptions: Blue collar :relating to manual work or workers, particularly in industry, they usually dont have college degree Linkedin: a social network that focuses on professional networking and career development. Why is linkedin expanding to blue collar workers? Ans: to expand new market as they have great untapped potential Do you want anew app or integrate it with Linkedin? Ans: you decide I would like to look more into the problem space before deciding on tha"See full answer

Syed I. - "I use a data driven approach by ensuring there is a deep-dive on all alternatives. My approach to tradeoffs is around how to achieve the customer experience needed. I ensure there is an immediate path to green for a solution and a follow-up solution addressing the problem rightly."See full answer

Jasmin R. - "Let's imagine you want to open Google Maps, you type maps.google.com and hit Enter. Here is what happens: You type maps.google.com into the address bar of your browser. Browser completes the address, for example, maps.google.com → https://www.maps.google.com [Address decoding] → browser breaks down the URL into parts ‘https://’: protocol → how the browser should connect to the website Default is HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) which shows up as ‘ http:/"See full answer

Alfred O. - "We can use dictionary to store cache items so that our read / write operations will be O(1). Each time we read or update an existing record, we have to ensure the item is moved to the back of the cache. This will allow us to evict the first item in the cache whenever the cache is full and we need to add new records also making our eviction O(1) Instead of normal dictionary, we will use ordered dictionary to store cache items. This will allow us to efficiently move items to back of the cache a"See full answer

Harshit J. - "In my organization, I was given a initiative to improve the time spent by users on web application so that we can improve the quality of engagement on the website. Overview of a business model: We are a research organization that delivers where users (B2B clients) consume research content in form of research reports. Clients has specifically subscription for a year and if clients engage continuously and they spend more time on research they will retain. Success metrics: Improve time spe"See full answer

LateArriver - "A mature manager. Great conversational answer. I wish more sessions with him"See full answer

Sergio C. - "Clarifying questions is there a main reason why we want to improve it? For instance: active users declined monetization declined performance issues customer complaints (Based on this clarifying question the following answer could be any to be honest. if the interviewer says that it's an open questions, then I would go to the product design framework) Assumption Based on the impact that we would like to do, 1) I would assume that we are looking to improve the messaging experi"See full answer

Khushbu R. - "General Approach (using Max-Heap) Use a max-heap (priority queue) of size k. For each point: Compute the distance to P. Push it into the heap. If heap size > k, remove the farthest point. The heap will contain the k closest points to P. import java.util.*; public class KClosestPoints { static class Point { int x, y; public Point(int x, int y) { this.x = x; this.y = y; } // Euclidean distance squared (no need to take square root) p"See full answer

stash - "To answer this question, I will first summarize the product and its use case. Thereafter, I will lay down the goals of the Company (LinkedIN) and the users with this product followed by going over user flows and determining what metrics we should use to measure success. We will go over a handful of metrics as a part of brainstorming but will only choose 2 or 3 to track overall success. Product Overview LinkedIn Events is a product will allows users to create online or offline events on Lin"See full answer

Shen W. - "For self achievement, The product manager builds useful products for users and makes the world better. For the team, The product manager can work with the team, and leverage the team resources to make things happen, which is more impactful. For the company, Pm are usually problem solvers, help companies to solve problems and grow better "See full answer

Sneha S. - "Clarifying Questions Candidate : What is the objective we want to achieve? Interviewer : Enhance User Experience, User Engagement and add value Candidate : What platform are we looking at Mobile App or Desktop? Interviewer : Platform independent Candidate : Have we conducted any product discovery experiments at this point? Interviewer : Not yet Candidate : Can we assume the new features will cater to all professionals across different industries? Interviewer : Yes Candidate : A"See full answer

Adaneir W. - "Assumptions: LinkedIn: LinkedIn's goal is to sell premium to candidates and companies that recruit. It aims to have the largest number of qualified professionals in creative intellectual professions, who spend time on the platform and share content. LinkedIn's strategic direction:grow the Talent pool, encourage the Talent pool to better qualify themselves, to facilitate Talent search by recruiters in return, the more recruiters on LinkedIn, the more they can sell premium to talents who are"See full answer

Priya T. - "INTERVIEWER: Design a communication app for children ME: GOAL: What are the business goals for this initiative? INTERVIEWER: Please assume. ME: Goals could be to* *improve communication skills/ communicate with classmates/friends better/enter a new market/empower children with disability to communicate better/etc. I’ll assume that the goal here is to enable children to communicate and engage better with their classmates since I have personally seen my niece and nephew (17 a"See full answer

Anonymous Boa - "Clarifying questions: what exactly do we mean by travel product? Travel recommendation. Travel bookings( airlines/hotels) Itinerary planning etc. Is it going to be a completely new digital product or an extension of instagram? Assuming travel product here means recommendations/bookings, and it going to be an extension within instagram, lets dwell further: Meta's vision: To make the world a closer place by offering connections; build communities. Instagram's mission: To capture , c"See full answer

M D. - "Understand the business problem: Identify the business problem that the AI data product is intended to solve. Identify the target audience: Understand who will be using the data and what problem they will be solving for using the data. This will inform the features and functionality that should be included in the product. Gather and preprocess the data: Collect and preprocess the data that is relevant to the problem that it is being solved for. This will inform the AI algorithm"See full answer