I applied through college or university. I interviewed at LinkedIn in Oct 2015
Interview
Linkedin came to my college during a career fair which was when I handed my resume to them. Was contacted the next day for a 1-hour long in person interview. The interviewer was fairly nice when talking to but gave off an impatient vibe while I was coding which stressed me out even more. Still waiting for response.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Not sure if I'm allowed to say but it had to do with searching a string.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at LinkedIn in Apr 2015
Interview
LinkedIn recruiter reached out to me on LinkedIn :)
Phone interview was scheduled for the following week. Recruiter sent me LinkedIn profiles of interviewer. As mentioned my multiple other candidates, they usually have 2 person on the telephonic interview. 2nd person is usually shadowing the main interviewer.
I received a phone call at the scheduled time and was given an algorithmic problem. I started discussing my approach and had a working solution with good complexity. The interview kept pushing me towards his solution even though it was not an improvement on my solution in terms of complexity. I did not push enough to keep my solution and tried to implement the approach suggested by interviewer. There wasn't enough time to complete the solution and I was stuck in between since I did not understand clearly the direction he wanted me to go.
This was pretty bad, that interviewer was so adamant around directing me towards his solution. He was pretty rude as well and did not take time to understand my solution at all. I have interviewed with LinkedIn before (during my graduation) and was really bad experience there as well. The last time I even heard the other interviewer laughing as I was writing my solution.
LinkedIn, you are a great engineering company and I really like some of the open source projects you have, but I would never want to work with arrogant and rude people on team. I hope this gets communicated back to interview panel.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at LinkedIn
Interview
Phone Interview with role play selling Sales Navigator to a VP of Sales. Expectation of following BANT (Budget, Authority, Need, Timing), discovering pain points and drilling down into each point. More interested in what kind of questions you ask, and less about product knowledge. Testing your ability to overcome objections.
Strong emphasis on feedback and how you respond to it.