I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at LinkedIn (San Jose, CA) in Sept 2018
Interview
Worst Experience. Junior S/W engineers are asked to interview for Senior S/W eng. position. The girl who interviewed has less than one year of experience and not from a good school. She was asking to explain each and every line and was asking to make changes the way she wants. Didn't have good understanding of the simple code. This was my first and worst experience with LinkedIn. I never expected such a reputed company to have a poor candidates working there and asked to interview. At last, they said I didn't meet the bar for Senior S/W engg. Funny, I am happy that, I am not selected and don't want to work for such a poor S/W engg.
I will never retry for LinkedIn.
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)