I have emailed a recruiter, sent her my resume and she got back to me to schedule a chat. The chat with the recruiter was about cultural fit. She checked that I cared about Linkedin mission and its core values. Nothing hard if you genuinely want to work there.
After that I was sent a takehome challenge to be completed in 3/4 hours. As others were saying, if you prepare on the book "a collection of data science takehome challenges", you will be good. If you don't have time to go through all of them, just focus on the one related to predicting employee salaries...
Before applying, I would suggest to practice on that book challenges and save R or Python scripts to then reuse them. That will save you a lot of time. Also, under time pressure, it is going to be so much easier if you have the main scripts ready.
After the challenge, I went for the onsite. I was really scared, but it was actually easier than I thought.
There were some probability puzzles, but really simple if you have a basic understanding of probability and if you prepared on the heard on wall street book.
There was also one question where I had to describe how to implement and test a model to catch fake profiles. But the interviewer didn't ask me to go too much into details. It was mostly about which features I think would matter. I think they wanted to see if I had product sense.
One day after the onsite, I got the offer.
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Can't tell you the actual questions, but if you have basic machine learning knowledge and you prepare on the books "heard on wall street" (for the onsite) and "collection of takehome challenges" (for the takehome step) you are good. Everything is in those 2 books.
Envié una solicitud electrónica. Acudí a una entrevista en LinkedIn (Dublín, Dublín)
Entrevista
All good, quick responses, had only hr call, hr was very friendly and helpful. Explained everything well. Didn’t make it to the second stage unfortunately. Was a dream job but here we go.
2 tech round regarding some basic coding and Ai based questions
1 hr hr round. About strength weakness etc. Overall good
Medium difficult
Interviewers were very friendly and supportive.
Dsa questions on arrays, searching, sorting
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Dsa
Array
Binary search [0,0,0,1,1,1] from where 1 starts
Envié una solicitud electrónica. Acudí a una entrevista en LinkedIn (New York, NY)
Entrevista
It was quick, efficient, and not too challenging. I was asked 8 questions and the interview was more of a dialogue. It felt more like a conversation. I enjoyed it and would recommend applying to LinkedIn.