I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn in June 2022
Interview
Had 2 rounds, phone screen and onsite. Phone screen was 1 hour and consisted of basic JS questions. Quite easy. Onsite was much much harder and had 7 modules, 4 of which were code interviews. Honestly, I think 4 code interviews were way too many, considering I had to do the same thing in all of them: writing a widget using JS. Linkedin can cut them down to 2 and still is able to test the same array of skills from candidates.
I found the interview rounds ok, the interviewers nice and helpful, but my experience with the recruiters is why I gave this review a negative rating. I had 2 recruiters, one for each round. The first person is amazing, very responsive and helpful. The second one is the opposite. They refused to communicate with me, and ignored all my emails asking for information. After getting my availability, they basically ghosted me for the rest of the interview. From what little communication I had with this person, they sounded untrustworthy and I had a feeling they're withholding info about the role from me for whatever reason. Be wary of slimy recruiters if you're applying at Linkedin.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Basic JS concepts
Build widgets using HTML, CSS, JS
Design a word-guessing game with unique rules
Interviewed for an SDE role. The process was well-organized and the recruiters were responsive throughout. That said, the technical rounds were significantly more challenging than expected — definitely come prepared to go deep. Overall a valuable experience regardless of the outcome.
That was a real stroke of luck — when I got to the coding round and encountered a question on finding the maximum subarray sum, I had literally seen this exact problem on prachub.com a few days earlier. The interview kicked off with a recruiter screen, followed by a technical phone interview. It was intense, especially with the focus on algorithms and data structures. I also faced some behavioral questions that challenged my experience. After a final onsite round, I received an offer and happily accepted. Overall, it was tough but rewarding.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an integer array nums, find the contiguous subarray (containing at least one number) which has the largest sum and return its sum. Walk through Kadane's algorithm and explain the O(n) approach.
Overall, a good interview process and the team were very friendly during the interview process and it was very good and pleasant. Nothing in regard to negative feedback or anything as such like that.