I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at LinkedIn in Jan 2016
Interview
One year earlier, I applied for intern position, got interview opportunity from a very nice recruiter, end in 4th round. That was a good experience though I did not got an offer.
That recruiter left last year. This year, with 2 more internship experience in big names, I apply again, using the same portfolio with several more projects on it. However, I did not even get a first round of interview.
It feels that they don't bother to talk to a candidate, they want to see all the NDA project online but not in interview, they also prefer template instead of hand-coded portfolio because they expect your portfolio works perfectly without any bugs. They also hate gif because it's fuzzy, if it's gif, it need to be 15mb so they can see it clearly because they don't have time look at your prototype. If you don't have a perfect portfolio with fantastic user experience, it means that you are a bad designer that don't worthy them spending time talking to you to know your soft skills and design process.
It makes me feel that LinkedIn is the only company in the universe and the other 2 big names must be idiot to hire me.
I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn (Mountain View, CA) in Apr 2013
Interview
1/15 Applied online via LinkedIn
3/30 Recruiter called, set up phone interview with supervisor
4/7 Phone interview with supervisor
4/14 1:1 with recruiter, supervisor, director and 2 other team members
4/21 1:1 with recruiter, supervisor and 3 other team members
4/28 1:1 with supervisor and senior vice president
5/1 receive offer and accept
5/7 background check okay
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Which one of our 6 company values do you identify with most/least?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn (New York, NY) in Oct 2014
Interview
I had an unusual interview process since they were looking to hire a large group of people in a short amount of time. I had 2 phone screen and then came in for an in person interview with 4 people. We did have to do a role play during one of the in person interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Most questions had to do with fit and the normal kind of interview questions. The big one I had to prepare for was the role play.