I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn (Mountain View, CA) in Feb 2016
Interview
First round is 30-minute recruiter screen (mainly behavior questions and going through the resume).
Second round is 1-hour phone screen (2 coding problems done on collabedit.com).
Third round is on-site. 6 sessions in total and each session lasts 1 hour. 2 sessions of coding. 1 session of system design. 1 session of tech communication. 1 session of hosting manager interview. 1 session of lunch and casual conversation with a hosting engineer.
After getting passed the hiring committee (which means you have passed the on-site), you have to go through another round of team matching to finally nailed down an offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is your biggest achievement in the past 5 years?
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)
