I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at LinkedIn in May 2011
Interview
Had 3 phone interviews:
1) Usual stuff with technical recruiter.
2) Sales pitch and broad questions about my experiences with the hiring manager.
3) Tech Screen over collabedit.com with a random engineer who, after the usual questions, asked to code a generic (String key, Object value) LRU cache in 35 minutes. I spent almost all the time designing. I did not feel that the problem was appropriate for a phone interview.
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)
