I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn
Interview
Got contacted by a recruiter via linkedin. Did an initial phone interview on ml concepts and coding and according to the recruiter it went so well that they did not need me to do another one.
Got invited to the campus for an onsite which I can name more a torture than an interview; staring from about 9:30 am lasting until 5pm. 7 interviews in a day!!!!! Unstructured interview; I was doing the interview for a data science/software engineering position; open ended questions; some interviewers were more after math/theory and some high level software design and some not sure! It was hard to figure who is looking for what and how to form a proper answer. One of the interviewers was a little rude even though he was 15-20 mins late for the interview. Generally not a good experience. The campus and food were great though.
Got a call from recruiter a few days later. "Your interview went well but we couldn't find any position for you. I tried to find a team by passing your resume over but unfortunately we don't have an open position at the time"! A simple question for them: Why the hell do you interview people then? Why the hell do you waste people's times by sending bunch of bol... job opening messages over and over? Interesting that after I did the onsite and was waiting for the feedback, there was another linkedIn recruiter contacting me about open engineering position at linkedin!!!!
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn
Interview
Had first phone call with HR. Went fine. Then There were 2 phone interviews. Both of them asked traditional questions. The second technical round interviewer was very rude. Did not introduce himself. He got into the coding test directly. He asked 2 questions which I answered in 30 minutes out of the one hour interview. He had no better thing to do so he asked me trace the whole recursive code on phone. I don't know how these people judge someone's skills.. Their questions are either from leetcode or some fixed set of pool. I got a reject the next day even after answering their questions well in time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Power of a number. Wrote a logn algorithm directly
Level order traversal
Permutations of an array of numbers. Wrote a recursive algorithm
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at LinkedIn in Jul 2014
Interview
The hiring and interview process was very long and tedious. As a recent college graduate, I expected to jump through some hoops during the interview process, but not like this. It always seemed like I was constantly being handed off.
It started with an internal referral. A month after the referral, I received an email from a recruiter in their New York office to schedule a phone screen. I thought this was strange since I was applying for the Mountain View, CA office, but we scheduled a time and date. When the time arrived, I got an email a half hour after our schedule phone screen, to reschedule. This should of been a red flag, but I moved on with the process. Two weeks after the phone screen, I was informed that I was selected for a on-site interview and I would hear from a recruiter in Mountain View about a time and date to come in. It took over 6 weeks to hear from the recruiter in Mountain View. And they wanted me to come in the next week for an on-site after 6 weeks of no contact. The actual on-site interview was well organized and professionally run, great experience. But the worst part of it all was the suspense after the on-site interview. The recruiter told the group that we would hear back, regarding an offer, in around two days or by latest the end of the week (by the New York recruiter). With their current track record, I should have expected this. Never heard anything by the end of the week. I emailed and called the recruiter in New York but did not hear back till the following week.
Overall LinkedIn's interview process was not well organized and there was a lot of lag between recruiters.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
During one of the interview stages, I was given 10 resumes with a time limit and asked which resumes would I pick and why.