I applied through a recruiter. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn (Sunnyvale, CA) in Aug 2019
Interview
I expected too much of LinkedIn but was disappointed to see the interview process. Did a phone interview with two people and was called on site a month later. There are a total of 6 rounds on site. 1. Technical communication - where you talk about your project at work. 2. Algorithm coding 1- leetcode easy question. 3. Lunch chat - random discussion. 4. Algorithm coding 2 - basic string manipulation. 5 Host Leader interview - discuss your achievements. 6. System design. Overall my experience matches with pretty much every interview experience that I read on Glassdoor about LinkedIn. Even for a senior position few kids enter the interview room who do not have any experience and are in the company for not more than 4 months to a year. In an algorithm interview round the interviewer was himself not aware of the time complexity and was very rude. They don’t allow you to speak and you will only qualify if you produce a code that they have memorized. Really sad to see such an incompetency for someone who works at LinkedIn. The kids working at LinkedIn probably fear of their place being replaced in their company if they hire a senior engineer who has been producing an efficient production code for many years. Their overall process is flawed and I definitely would not want to work for such a company.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Very basic leetcode questions. Nothing unexpected.
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)