The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn in Nov 2012
Interview
** Phone Interview (1 hour)
Simple coding questions and Object oriented questions.
** Onsite Interview (6.5 hours)
2x simple coding interviews, 1x design architecture interview, 1x interview with higher up management + lunch, 1x HR.
I would not recommend people to apply or work at this company because management issues can be seen even during the interview process:
1) Each interview you get a senior interviewer and a junior interviewer, during the interview I can see the junior interviewer trying to please the senior interviewer and get attention from the senior interviewer.
2) Higher management guy I met with did not have fond words to say about LinkedIn. When we had lunch, we bumped into a lot of people but no one greeted him. I did not get a feeling that higher management is very liked/approachable by others in the company.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn in Nov 2012
Interview
Referred by a friend. After talking with recruiter, a phone screen is scheduled. Two LinkedIn engineers interviewed me together. The call quality was bad but the interviewer were patient. I was asked to code on CollabEdit. Only one question was asked. I figured out most of the algorithm but stumbled on the implementation the Iterator interface in such a scenario.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement Java Iterator interface in a question that requires a tree traversal-like algorithm.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at LinkedIn
Interview
Handed my resume at the school career fair. My first interview was a phone interview with HR, lasting about 30 mins. They asked about my interests, etc. The second interview was a one hour phone interview. They started by asking questions about the resume, background, etc. Then they asked me to implement a concurrent read-write buffer.