I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn (Sunnyvale, CA) in Jun 2014
Interview
1. The hiring manager called, asked a few questions about my skills and told me she will get back to me about coming in for interview.
2. Hiring manager sent me an email with an easy homework assignment about a campaign email and a website page.
3. Created a presentation, went in for an interview. Met with 2 people separately from different departments, 30 minutes each, and the last interview was with the hiring manager and one of her associates. Everyone seemed great and interested except for the hiring manager. She was very dry and had no sense of humor.
4. Found out this position had been posted on and off since November of 2013 and I applied in May and interviewed in June 2014.
The hiring manager's personality did not really fit in with the rest of the LinkedIn folks who were very friendly and outgoing. Even if I had got an offer I would have most likely declined because I did not get a good vibe from the hiring manager when I met met her during the interview. She did not smile even once. Bad day, maybe?
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions were mostly around the homework assignment. Very easy. Hiring manager's final question. What do you like to do for fun?
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn (Mountain View, CA) in Apr 2014
Interview
I applied online, and was later referred by a friend who had gotten an internship offer earlier in the academic year. I first had a phone screen with the recruiter, who then matched me with a team that was tailored to my interests/skills/experiences. I then had a 1-hour technical phone interview with one of the staff software engineers on the team, and was notified of the feedback that night. I was then scheduled for a second technical phone interview that would occur a few days later, which ended up being much more difficult than the first. I then had a third interview, which was mostly informational, with the engineering manager of the team. I got to ask questions about the types of projects the team worked on, the types of projects planned for interns, and the overall environment and culture. Overall, the entire process was very transparent and organized: you know who you are interviewing with (given a link to the interviewer's LinkedIn profile before each interview), and the recruiter was available to answer questions at any point in the process. They were also able to expedite the process for me since I had other competing offers.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Very detailed questions on data structures and algorithms. Certain questions involved designing new data structures and implementing the corresponding interface functions (i.e., insertion, deletion, etc.) from scratch.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at LinkedIn in Jul 2014
Interview
Applied online, got call from Recuiter and the process was very professional and quick. The hiring manager and HR and Recruiter worked well to accommodate any time restrictions i had. Had initial phone screen with one of the engineers. Used collabedit for the interview/tech phone screen. Questions asked were fairly simple. Check if a String contains a number or not. Other was a backtracking/recursion basic CS question. Also some basic Java questions.