I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn
Interview
Love the fact that when going through LinkedIn you can see/ reach out to the job poster. Sent the HR contact a direct message and got a prompt reply. Almost unheard of in this day and age.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Perspective employees must give presentation in front of a panel.
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn (Amherst, MA) in Oct 2012
Interview
I originally submitted an application through my university's career page. I got a follow-up e-mail from the campus recruiter, as well as another recruiter, asking me to attend the info session and sign up for an interview. The info session wasn't very detailed about the actual rotational program, but they really emphasized the culture at LinkedIn, and how they're really out to change the world.
I had my interview the next morning, and it was a fairly standard behavioral interview. It's definitely more chatty than formal. He seemed primarily interested in my consulting background, and how well I could integrate myself into the LinkedIn atmosphere. They really, really care about cultural fit.
I applied online. I interviewed at LinkedIn (San Francisco, CA) in Oct 2013
Interview
First contact was on Oct 23rd via email from a technical recruiter and we scheduled a phone call for next day. She talked about positions available at the moment asked what would interest me the most. After I picked one area she scheduled first phone screen on Oct 25th.
First phone screen was with a Sr. Data Scientist, she made a very good introduction of the project on which she works. I was asked what projects I worked on before and what am looking for now. Than a few simple questions related to data science.
Second phone screen was a coding interview and was scheduled for the Nov 1st and they used collabedit.com to code. The problem was interesting and after some discussion and hints I was able to verbalize the most efficient solution and then proceeded to coding it in C. It took some discussion and time before I got it and the interviewer at no time was trying to fail me, he was very helpful and treated me super nicely.
Couple days later they informed me that I passed and scheduled on site interview for Nov 7th. On site I had 5 interviews 45min each, two data scientists, one product manager, one coding (simple SQL), one lunch interview with the hiring team member. All questions are reasonable, no brain teasers or tricky questions, no one is trying to fail you and people are genuinely super nice. After that I had couple more meetings with engineering team members. Overall it took almost the entire day. Two days later I was told that they would like to make me an offer and gave me all the details.
I was on a tough schedule because I had another pending offer and LinkedIn HR pulled out a little miracle to make all the process super smooth and fast. It took 2 weeks from the first contact to the offer stage, and this is not an easy thing to do trust me!!! They handle all the logistics, all you need to think about is just to concentrate on the interviews itself.
Overall, LinkedIn interview process is as good as it possibly gets and they pay really good money so it is for sure worth fighting for.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They are really reasonable about questions. Just explain clearly what you have done before, the questions that they have a open ended discussions. If you can talk on a subject matter and give a few angles on a problem that is all they are looking for.