I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at LinkedIn in Jul 2014
Interview
Applied online, got call from Recuiter and the process was very professional and quick. The hiring manager and HR and Recruiter worked well to accommodate any time restrictions i had. Had initial phone screen with one of the engineers. Used collabedit for the interview/tech phone screen. Questions asked were fairly simple. Check if a String contains a number or not. Other was a backtracking/recursion basic CS question. Also some basic Java questions.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn
Interview
Applied on Company website. Contacted by HR, scheduled for technical screen. Online technical screen using a collaborative editing tool. Second technical screen by phone, no on line editing.
Scheduled for 5 hour on site. senior manager for position and I had short chat about company culture, then got lunch. Then 4 sets of technical interviews with one or two people asking me questions.
Culture was very exciting to me - the people seemed very enthusiastic about the company and that they would be solving interesting problems that would make a difference in people's lives.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The difficult portion was due to poor time management - I didn't know I was going to be asked to do two whiteboard coding problems and the interviewers had asked me to talk about successes in my career. So 40 minutes of a 60 minute session were taken up before they got to what was important. My advice is to ask interviewers politely what they need to cover in their time.
First I went through a phone interview where they ask me the most basic questions, like what am I working on, what is my strength, ect. Second interview was a more technical phone interview where they ask me to write some class definition online using any programming language I prefer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Nothing unexpected. They asked questions about data structure and algorithm.