I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at LinkedIn (Santa Monica, CA) in Jan 2022
Interview
I chose not to start the interview gauntlet. This is what I learned:
2 Interviews Parts:
- One Hour Live Coding Technical
• I was disappointed this was the only option. To be a leader you need to accommodate a variety of personalities and types. Having a one size fits all approach is not best. I'd like to see additional options such as timed take home, submit previous project, etc..
- 6 HOUR panel
• This is incredibly long and difficult to carve out time for, especially if you're already in a role and not sure about switching
** Finally, the compensation was low due to geo-based compensation. Since the pandemic we can work remotely from all over, so geo-based is not competitive salary.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
• What are you looking for in next role?
• Would you be willing to relocate?
• Are you interested in 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)