I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn in Apr 2011
Interview
Applied through website and got contacted by HR. Then set up a tech phone interview a week later.
The phone interview was really really wired. Without any "Hi or how are you", he asked me 4 simple questions without online coding. Then he asked me "do you have any questions?" I asked him to give me a brief introduction about his team and what they do. Surprisingly, he answered: I do a lot of work. What you mean you do a lot of work??? and I asked 2 other question, he answered with no more than 5 words. And then it's over.
I interviewed a lot of companies, no one interviewed like this. Make me feel rude, disrespect and unprofessional.
I did not get responses yet, but i've already decided to reject this company.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at LinkedIn in Mar 2011
Interview
I have a very negative impression of LinkedIn after my interview. The engineers did not take time to introduce themselves, talk about my history, the job or team, but dove straight into the technical portion. I was interviewing for a position requiring expertise in data mining and NLP, but instead of talking about anything related to that, they treated me like a code monkey. Questions were mostly about data structs, alg and how much do you know about Java.
I applied through other source. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at LinkedIn in Feb 2011
Interview
I got the rec on LinkedIn's website. I did a phone interview that went well and then went in for an all day of one-on-ones. The interviews were standard Valley stuff. Whiteboarding with algorithms, design questions, etc. I enjoyed the group I met but I felt that there were too many interviewers (6 total). Afterwards, the recruiter said that she'd get back to me ASAP and that they'd move fast. That didn't happen. It's been over two weeks and I still haven't heard back - I'm assuming they're passing.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Given a unbounded non-block queue, implement a blocking bounded queue