I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn (Dublin, Dublin) in Aug 2016
Interview
The interview process was seamless from the first time I spoke with the Recruiter through to the final round.
The first interview was a phone screen with a member of the Recruitment team, after this I had another phone interview with a senior team member, an on-site role play/competency based interview with a manager/senior team member and a final round interview with a divisional director.
The whole process took about 4 weeks, and moved very quickly between interviews which was good.
My recruiter always kept me informed of what was happening and gave me a huge amount of information to help me prepare. She also always had feedback for me following my interviews and was able to answer any questions I had on the role or LinkedIn.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at LinkedIn in Oct 2016
Interview
Phone interview
For the problem given to me, two approaches were possible, recursive and iterative solution.
The interviewer had the recursive solution clearly memorized. I gave the iterative solution.
Second question was straight forward. I wrote the code covering all boundary condition and edge cases. I wrote comments for my code and explained each line and why I am taking the approach I took.
Very disappointing. Had respect for LinkedIn as a company. Not any more. This seems to be the trend for all linkedin interviews. If you code what they have in mind, you are through.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at LinkedIn (San Francisco, CA) in Oct 2016
Interview
First of all linkedin uses some very old web editor, it can not even run the code. Interviewer had strong accent, sometime it was not possible to understand, combined bad phone call quality. Overall it was very frustrating experience.