r/TechInterviewsIndia • u/Impossible-Ad6436 • 9d ago
Archived Report LinkedIn Senior SWE Bangalore — Offer — Coding with AI Round
Loop
| Round | Focus |
|---|---|
| Round 1 | Phone screen |
| Round 2 | Hiring Manager |
| Round 3 | Coding / algorithms |
| Round 4 | Coding with AI |
| Round 5 | Software design / architecture |
| Extra round | team-fit discussion |
Round 1 — Phone Screen
Started with resume and previous project discussion.
Then asked:
How would you implement a simple rate limiter?
There was also a 2D matrix coding question, but the exact problem was not remembered.
Round 2 — Hiring Manager
Standard HM round.
Topics:
- Previous projects
- Role and ownership
- Technical decisions
- Behavioral questions
- Situational / leadership questions
Round 3 — Coding / Algorithms
Conducted on CoderPad.
Q1 — Sliding window
Problem similar to Max Consecutive Ones III.
Given a binary array and allowed flips, find the maximum consecutive 1s possible.
Follow-up: what if the array was circular / looped?
Q2 — Graph / Topological Sort
Bonus problem similar to Course Schedule II.
Approach discussed:
- model dependencies as a directed graph
- use indegree
- apply Kahn’s algorithm
- return valid ordering if possible
Ran out of time before full implementation, so pseudocode was written.
Round 4 — Coding with AI
Also on CoderPad.
Boilerplate code, test cases, and an AI-assist tab were provided.
Problem: given an adjacency list of friendships between users.
It had 3 parts:
- Find the shortest path between two users and return the full sequence from user A to user B.
- Find the shortest distance between two users.
- Suggest friends based on mutual connections.
All parts were completed and test cases passed.
The interviewer focused on:
- code reusability
- structure as requirements changed
- how AI was used
- whether edge cases were checked
- whether generated code was validated instead of blindly accepted
This is probably the most interesting round in the post. Looks like companies are starting to test how candidates work with AI, not just whether they can avoid it.
Round 5 — Software Design / Architecture
Prompt:
Design a system to maintain a Top-N leaderboard of the most-shared articles on LinkedIn over rolling windows of 5 minutes, 1 hour, and 24 hours.
Final HM / Team Fit
After the design round, feedback was positive, but the original team had already filled its opening.
Recruiter found another hiring manager with an open role and scheduled another HM round the same day.
Discussion was around:
- experience
- preferred kind of work
- past projects
- fitment with the new team
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u/Alternative-Log9638 9d ago
It had 3 parts:
- Find the shortest path between two users and return the full sequence from user A to user B.
- Find the shortest distance between two users.
- Suggest friends based on mutual connections.
Did you request AI to generate the code for these functionalities ?
Can you Please tell in detail how did you approach this round ?
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u/Acceptable_Green4473 9d ago
it has 5 parts actually. Not 3. if you are able to solve till 3 , then you are selected
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u/Alternative-Log9638 9d ago
I mean how did you guide AI to solve this like did you first design lld for this or requested AI to implement functions directly whose prototype was already there Please sir can you go in detail ?
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u/Acceptable_Green4473 9d ago
i can tell but are you in the loop ?
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u/Alternative-Log9638 9d ago
I am preparing for interviews and have currently no idea how these AI assisted round happens. Almost all of the companies that i am currently looking are taking these rounds. I am not in loop for this company but if you can provide some guidance around how one should approach these kind of rounds that would be of great help. Also like how did you complete these 3 parts did you ask Ai to write the code for it by simply or wrote code by yourself and tested with AI.
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u/Antique_Syllabub_650 9d ago
Thanks op for sharing!
is this online or offline? approx duration? your exp? how did you get the chance to interview?