I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at LinkedIn (Sunnyvale, CA) in Jan 2017
Interview
Contacted through a recruiter on LinkedIn. She described the company profile in very detail and explained about the available roles and let me chose the one that would fit my skills and interests. After setting up the phone interview, she sent me a detailed mail explaining the interview process, what is expected, what qualities are evaluated, tips to prepare, etc. It was very useful in my preparation.
Phone interview was very professional. After a brief self-introduction, jumped straight into the questions. Interviewer described the questions properly and clarified my doubts promptly. I walked through my thought process before writing code, and once or twice he provided hints to direct me in the correct path. I chose python to solve the coding problems and switched to java for writing hive udf. He provided ample time at the end for me to ask questions and provided proper explanations for my questions.
Overall a very good experience, though I didn't clear the round. The programming questions were straight forward for someone who had practiced well. I believe I should have practiced more.
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
1. Find if brackets are balanced properly in a given string.
3. Implement a hive udf - for the given string return a score based on the sentiment words found. (good: 1; average: 0; bad: -1) Ex. good food, bad service = 1 - 1 = 0
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at LinkedIn (San Francisco, CA) in Mar 2015
Interview
an interview with a recruiter and then a phone interview. The experience was awful.
The interviewer was very rude and when I asked a few questions about the product they were working on he started to get angry. Phone was on speaker and when I was answering the questions a few guys were laughing. I finally asked him are you laughing at me and he said No they are laughing on something else.
This is not professional.