I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn (Mountain View, CA) in Oct 2010
Interview
The interview process consists of one phone interview and 2 on sites. I had a positive experience interviewing with LinkedIn. I looked over the reviews here before I went. Some criticized the working environment and the interview process, but I experienced the opposite. Everyone I met was friendly, smart and they spoke highly of their team environment. The building/conference rooms where I interviewed in were clean and updated. The hr person I worked with was very helpful and communicated well. So maybe they saw the reviews here and made improvements? They asked a few harder questions, which I see as a good sign because you can expect your future coworkers to be competent. I think the company has great unrealized potentials still, and I like the director and the hiring team a lot, so I ended up choosing them over another more competitive offer.
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)