I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn (San Francisco, CA) in Oct 2019
Interview
Initially I went through a phone screen technical where I performed coding tasks and displayed general technical knowledge. After being accepted after the phone interview I was invited for an onsite interview in San Francisco. It was surprising that I was needed to be sent there instead of interviewing at the local LinkedIn office. Overall it was an enlightening process of how this style of interview was done.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
During the in person interview I was asked how I would architect a rebuild of a URL shorting website.
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)