I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn in Nov 2018
Interview
Telephonic Interview - 2 interviewers - 2 basic algo questions on strings.
I answered both the questions in time. They wanted me to do better on time complexity on 2nd question, mine was O(n) time and O(1) space, since I had insertion of data in my hands. Then I spoke out the better way, half way coded it but there was no time to code it fully. According to me, I did really well.
These guys are totally unpredictable and naive. 2 freshers test any level of experienced guys. They just have 1 solution in mind. You do it the other way, you are not getting it. They expect you to do 2 questions completely in the best ways (acc to them), at the same time it should be readable, maintenable, logical etc - everything.
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)