I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at LinkedIn
Interview
I was contacted by a linkedin recruiter on linkedin. Had a quick phone screen with the recruiter, who made a fantastic job of selling the position to me. I then had to do an online set of coding exercises which I describe below. I didn't find it too hard, but I do have a problem with writing code / think in front of people in pressure settings such as an interview. The experience was positive, minus one minor thing for one of the questions where I felt the interviewer was confused as to what was expected and did not clarify. Instead, he simplified the problem, which made me insecure as to what result that would have. The coding exercise was done on a collabedit instance while on the phone with the Senior SRE. Both people I spoke to had a nice positive and friendly tone. I would like to try again in the future.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q: Write a program which prints out all numbers between 1 and 100. When the program would print out a number exactly divisible by 4, print "Linked" instead. When it would print out a number exactly divisible by 6, print "In" instead. When it would print out a number exactly divisible by both 4 and 6, print "LinkedIn."
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at LinkedIn (San Francisco, CA) in Dec 2014
Interview
Phone screening interview. They introduced themselves, gave a (very) brief description of the position, and then just asked typical qualifying questions. I think they could have done a better job asking questions that actually were relevant to a candidate's experience, instead of all canned answers. Nothing gave the impression that they had any unique questions for the interview, either original or follow-on questions throughout the process.
Applied on LinkedIn website, got a call back from the recruiter the next day. Did a phone screening and was selected for a technical interview. The interview questions are mostly about case questions and technical-behavioral questions, such as given the total number of LinkedIn users, how much impressions did LinkedIn impressions were prompted? Mostly testing your knowledge of LinkedIn customer market and analytical ability.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a list of tuples, return the user numbers that has the highest replying rate. Form: [(user id), (rate of sending out), (rate of reply)]