I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at LinkedIn (Sunnyvale, CA) in Aug 2016
Interview
In all my decades of interviewing for QA positions, this was positively the worst interview I've ever, ever been given. I was set up with interviewer who had absolutely no QA domain knowledge even though I was interviewing for a QA position. After 20 minutes of trying to drag any QA process answers out of the interviewer, I was done. To top it off, I was asked questions from the SD domain. Be sure you memorize every single question from leetcode because I was given a lame question that was cut and pasted from there. Lazy and unoriginal. An interview process that's stuck in the late 90's.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Optimizing code without a compiler and without being able to look up the answer. Which no one does any more! And if they do, they spend 1 minute on Google to get the answer.
This is a review ONLY for the data science team. Other teams in LinkedIn seemed great!
Two phone screens + Onsite Interview
Coding + Metrics + A/B testing + Product Insight
Overall, interview was very easy. Lowball offer.
'Bait and Switch' interview - offered me a position that I won't of even applied for and pretended like I applied for it all along. Shocked that LinkedIn, as a recruiting company, would allow such an deceptive, unethically practice.
Hiring manger are unprofessional. He lied to me multiple times during the interview (fyi all that information is available on glassdoor, LinkedIn website), demanded to speak with me at random times and displayed clear ethnic favoritism. Basically, I would completely avoid unless you share the same ethnicity as the hiring manager or are in desperate need of a job. No one really seemed to know much about product analytics. It was a pretty disappointing experience. Overall, just a complete waste of time and the interview process is long (takes months).
One of the employees even shared with me during the interview that this hiring manager rarely ever approves any vacation during the first year. Overall, that sums up how I felt about the team: EXPLOITATIVE AND UNETHICAL!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Simple stats/A/B testing. One more complex coding question.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at LinkedIn (San Jose, CA) in Feb 2016
Interview
Interviewer is really mean and even doesn't understand the question well enough himself. Find element in rotated array (has duplicate) Find minimum in rotated array(has duplicate). I don't understand why he ask two similar questions! just got tired typing the same stuff! I said I can implement the one without duplicates and improve. He rejected: no there are duplicates. wtf...
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Find element in rotated array (has duplicate) Find minimum in rotated array(has duplicate)