I applied online. I interviewed at LinkedIn in Jul 2015
Interview
First stage. Call from HR, general questions.
Second stage. Interview over bluejeans. Two guys on other side. One hour, two questions.
Third stage. Five different groups, about hour each. Design and coding tasks
There are a row of houses, each house can be painted with three colors red, blue and green. The cost of painting each house with a certain color is different. You have to paint all the houses such that no two adjacent houses have the same color. You have to paint the houses with minimum cost. How would you do it?
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at LinkedIn (Sunnyvale, CA) in Aug 2017
Interview
First two calls from linkedin recruiter and a 1 hour tech interview on collabedit. Was very responsive. Interview processes was good. Work on your algorithm, programming and javascript.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
first question, whats event bubbling, what get and post. Then code JavaScript palindrome algorithm, then optimize. Then he should me a sample JavaScript and to predict what would happen.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at LinkedIn (Sunnyvale, CA) in Aug 2017
Interview
The process took a grotesquely long time to begin with. Originally, a recruiter reached out to me about interviewing with them, so I applied to one position. Getting the phone screen even scheduled took weeks because the recruiter was so unresponsive. After the phone screen, it took 3 weeks to get any feedback because it turned out that they thought I'd be a better fit for a different position than I applied for, but that position wasn't open yet, and the recruiter just didn't bother to tell me in a reasonable amount of time. A few months later, they reached out to me again to tell me that the position opened up and they wanted me to interview for it, so I accepted.
When I finally did the in-person interview, most of the people I spoke with were friendly, except one of the coding module interviewers, who was pretty rude. He was 10 mins late, and was looking at his laptop, obviously doing something else while I was coding my answer to his question. It was very clear that he was totally disinterested in doing the interview. The other coding module interviewer was nice and personable, but asked a question that had a shaky basis to begin with, and the interviewer's answer to the question was just totally wrong.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Given an array of integers, write a function that will produce a random permutation of the input array.
Given two linked lists that could potentially have a merge—i.e., at some point during one of the linked lists, the next node is a node in the other list—write an algorithm that determines if two lists merge or not. The lists could also potentially contain a cycle—i.e., an element can loop back around to the head.