I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3+ months. I interviewed at LinkedIn in Aug 2019
Interview
I applied through a recruiter. The process took a week.
I had a phone screen interview. The interviewer was a junior engineer, he gave me two coding problems.
When I was explaining the solution before coding he doesn't give me any feedback. I was just to be talking with a wall.
I have completed the problems with a working solution on time. Both solutions worked correctly and have good time complexity.
When I had to explain the code he seems to not understand simple conditions and recursions.
He didn't give me any feedback on any solution.
After the interview I have checked my code and run some test, both problems were resolved correctly. :)
Next day I received an email that I will not continue with the process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Coding problem to using tree traversal and recursion
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn (Sunnyvale, CA) in Aug 2019
Interview
I expected too much of LinkedIn but was disappointed to see the interview process. Did a phone interview with two people and was called on site a month later. There are a total of 6 rounds on site. 1. Technical communication - where you talk about your project at work. 2. Algorithm coding 1- leetcode easy question. 3. Lunch chat - random discussion. 4. Algorithm coding 2 - basic string manipulation. 5 Host Leader interview - discuss your achievements. 6. System design. Overall my experience matches with pretty much every interview experience that I read on Glassdoor about LinkedIn. Even for a senior position few kids enter the interview room who do not have any experience and are in the company for not more than 4 months to a year. In an algorithm interview round the interviewer was himself not aware of the time complexity and was very rude. They don’t allow you to speak and you will only qualify if you produce a code that they have memorized. Really sad to see such an incompetency for someone who works at LinkedIn. The kids working at LinkedIn probably fear of their place being replaced in their company if they hire a senior engineer who has been producing an efficient production code for many years. Their overall process is flawed and I definitely would not want to work for such a company.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Very basic leetcode questions. Nothing unexpected.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn
Interview
Had a phone screen with a recruiter who set up a technical phone screen 2 weeks later. The technical interviewer was definitely not prepared and was looking for just ONE solution that he probably had memorized. He said he'd have to look at my solution offline and went on to the next question(hard). The communication skills of the interviewer was very poor and we went back and forth on the same issue. Something like '"Me: You said you want to build a black car?". "Interviewer: No, I want Firestone tires that are snow proof". "Me: Yeah you'd need tires on your car but what about the paint?". "Interviewer: Yes, you're right. It should be a gasoline car and not electric". What!!