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      Principal Software Engineer Interview

      11 Jul 2010
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Mountain View, CA
      Declined offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn (Mountain View, CA) in Jun 2010

      Interview

      Totally unprofessional from the beginning. Their HR is a disaster. Took almost a month just to schedule an interview. Many reschedules in between. The workplace stinks inside out. I swear. Just visit once and you will know. Engineers are packed like slaves inside. No space to even walk around without the hurdles. They think they are Google just because they are next door. They try copy Google in every aspect. But they don't realize they are not even close. Engineers and the Managers I spoke with are absolutely clueless on the technology and e-commerce side. They think they are smart. Most these guys seemed like C programmers and still think that way to program in Java! They don't seem to understand Java Concurrency at all. They don't even know Merge Sort!! Seriously. But they think they are the smartest. Many of them were really rude. But I demonstrated right to their face how immature they were in terms of technical know how. All in all, this company is a disaster. I think it is just foolish to hire people on LinkedIn. It is not hard to build fake community of referrals on it. The 2B evaluation is just one more bubble waiting to be burst. With the kind of Engineers they have, I doubt their success.

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      MergeSort
      Answer question

      Question 2

      Cache design
      Answer question
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      Application

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      14 Dec 2011
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
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      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at LinkedIn in Dec 2011

      Interview

      I was contacted by a Linkedin recruiter. After having a 1:1 sessions with development leads was called for an onsite. My technical interviews I thought went reasonably well but I was declined.

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      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at LinkedIn (Mountain View, CA)

      Interview

      The initial communication was good and the recruiter did a good job of arranging a coding test on collabedit. The interviewer was very unprofessional. Came late and hurried up the interview and the other person didn't turn up at all. Also the interviewer didn't know what she was working on !!!