LinkedIn System Design Interview Questions

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Asked at LinkedIn • 6 months ago
Design and implement a ranked cache system.
Engineering Manager
System Design
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3 answers I was asked this
"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"
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
Engineering Manager
System Design
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Asked at LinkedIn, Accenture • 2 months ago
Design an AI data product.
Data Analyst
System Design
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5 answers I was asked this
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"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"
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
Data Analyst
System Design
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Asked at LinkedIn • 15 days ago
Design typeahead autocomplete for person search in Linkedin.
Software Engineer
System Design
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Software Engineer
System Design
Asked at LinkedIn • 4 years ago
What happens behind the scenes when you visit a Bitly URL in your web browser?
System Design
2 answers I was asked this
"May I know which tool is being used to draw flow diagram?"
Tamil selvan R. - "May I know which tool is being used to draw flow diagram?"See full answer
System Design
Asked at LinkedIn • 4 years ago
How would you improve LinkedIn's onboarding flow?
System Design
Product Design
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2 answers I was asked this
"It's possible the Onboarding Flow is fine as it is - but I would do some initial hands-on exploring. I would go through the boarding steps myself. Re-Visit the flow with a clean perspective. Take notes on Pros & Cons. Things I liked. Things I didn't like. Create a table. Brainstrorm some UI / UX / Flow features that could use some improvement. If my simple analysis warranted some more exploration - I would do an informal survey with my immediate internal colleagues - and possibly even my tight"
G. D. - "It's possible the Onboarding Flow is fine as it is - but I would do some initial hands-on exploring. I would go through the boarding steps myself. Re-Visit the flow with a clean perspective. Take notes on Pros & Cons. Things I liked. Things I didn't like. Create a table. Brainstrorm some UI / UX / Flow features that could use some improvement. If my simple analysis warranted some more exploration - I would do an informal survey with my immediate internal colleagues - and possibly even my tight"See full answer
System Design
Product Design
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Asked at LinkedIn • 3 years ago
Design a travel app experience for Meta.
Product Manager
System Design
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1 answer I was asked this
"Clarify the ask/ goal and scope Talk about the general need for travel in a Covid/post covid world + how it aligns with Meta's mission and business (the Why) Audience /Behavior segmentation with needs/pain points Prioritize Suggested 3 Solution territories Dived deep into 1 and mentioned tradeoffs/ risks for that one Summarized with a few GTM considerations/ideas Please note: Although the interview was scoped for 30 mins, the interviewer spent the first 15 diving into past work e"
Raina M. - "Clarify the ask/ goal and scope Talk about the general need for travel in a Covid/post covid world + how it aligns with Meta's mission and business (the Why) Audience /Behavior segmentation with needs/pain points Prioritize Suggested 3 Solution territories Dived deep into 1 and mentioned tradeoffs/ risks for that one Summarized with a few GTM considerations/ideas Please note: Although the interview was scoped for 30 mins, the interviewer spent the first 15 diving into past work e"See full answer
Product Manager
System Design
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Asked at LinkedIn • 4 years ago
Design the end-to-end user onboarding for an app.
System Design
Product Design
2 answers I was asked this
"I will teach the user to use the application in a simple and objective way"
Hamilton D. - "I will teach the user to use the application in a simple and objective way"See full answer
System Design
Product Design
Asked at LinkedIn • 2 years ago
Display job postings to users in the same city based on their previous searches.
Machine Learning Engineer
System Design
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Machine Learning Engineer
System Design