I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn (Sunnyvale, CA) in Mar 2018
Interview
The process was smooth and it was a very positive experience. The phone screen had 2 coding questions (Leetcode easy). This was followed by the onsite, which had 5 rounds.
Round #1: Behavioral - with a hiring manager (not necessarily the one you may get an offer from)
Round #2: System design
Round #3: Technical deep dive - You get to talk about some project of yours in detail, without violating your NDA of course
Lunch: Also behavioral round.
Round #4: Coding
Round #5: Coding
The interviewers were nice and not intimidating. You can genuinely feel the positive vibe in the company. What I liked was the detailed feedback I received at the end which clearly mentioned that even though I had done well, more was expected from me as a senior engineer especially in the system design round. I was able to apply that feedback for subsequent interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Two-Sum
Maximum Sub array
All Permutations of a list of numbers
Some version of the graph coloring problem (with some cost aspects and the objects are in a straight line) - Involved backtracking
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at LinkedIn (San Francisco, CA)
Interview
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.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write the code to generate an English language rendition of any integer up to 100,000,000.
I applied online. I interviewed at LinkedIn (San Francisco, CA) in Mar 2026
Interview
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
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
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
mutex and communication between processes
backtracking easy question (count islands)