J'ai postulé via un recruteur. Le processus a pris 4 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez LinkedIn en mai 2015
Entretien
Phone Screen: They followed the usual collabedit.com based shared document to write code for the given question.
The interviewer was nice and had good communication skills. I bombed the interview, possibly due to the prompts required to answer the question. Their expectations are higher.
No sour grapes here, the process is fair, better than other companies. With this out of the way, here is some feedback to LI itself:
One important point, I realized was the fact that, any line you type on the screen is considered final. My thought process is to exercise my own code and find issues with it. The interviewer was immediately jumping in pointing out things. Holes in the logic should be fine to point out, but, leave a minute or two to let the person think. It is a tough(only for some people, obviously) thing to pull off a balance between showing the interviewer what you are thinking Vs. solving the problem itself.
I feel that an experienced engineer can't simply survive a day not knowing some of the things the interviewer mentioned in my interview. I write decent C++ code day-in and day-out which is reviewed at a very high standard.
So, rejection from LI was a damning indictment of my "coding skills". So, be prepared to feel the worst engineer on the planet for a good month or so, if you do get rejected.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
It is a famous problem from a famous book, that I happened to read 12+ years ago. Not entirely unexpected, but, writing the code on the screen was a different challenge by itself.
J'ai postulé via un recruteur. J'ai passé un entretien chez LinkedIn (San Francisco, CA)
Entretien
Was greeted by a person who basically walked me around the office during my interview, did a couple of rounds with a group on a whiteboard solving a coding challenge, and one to solve a software architecture challenge. Had lunch onsite. And one round of interview with someone who wasn't technical.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Write the code to generate an English language rendition of any integer up to 100,000,000.
J'ai postulé en ligne. J'ai passé un entretien chez LinkedIn (San Francisco, CA) en mars 2026
Entretien
Had an initial phone screen round-
Questions - Regular Medium level question, string manipulation
Follow up - Concurrency related on top of the first question.
Waiting for the second round right now
J'ai passé un entretien chez LinkedIn (San Francisco, CA)
Entretien
Failed at initial screening
Asked about mutex and how 2 processes can communicate with each other, I got nervous and coulnt explain my thoughts properly
Then asked the simple backtracking interview question, solved it, but also didnt do good job communicating
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
mutex and communication between processes
backtracking easy question (count islands)