The process took 1 day. I interviewed at LinkedIn (Mountain View, CA) in Nov 2009
Interview
I was asked a combination of algorithm and coding questions as well as design questions.
The interviewers were pleasant and would offer hints when I got stuck.
I thought I did well but apparently some of them thought that they had to offer me hints and another one felt that I was giving very short answers.
Would have loved to get an offer, but that was not to be :-)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a grid of size m by n, write an algorithm that computes all paths from 0,0 to m,n such that you can always step horizontally or vertically but cannot reverse.
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
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.
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)
