I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at LinkedIn (San Francisco, CA) in Nov 2013
Interview
Applied online, recieved an email from recruiter to set up a call. Initial chat about opportunities and was communicated I will be interviewd for application team. First round telephonic interview. 1 coding question and reject.
/**
* Given two (dictionary) words as Strings, determine if they are isomorphic. Two words are called isomorphic
* if the letters in one word can be remapped to get the second word. Remapping a letter means replacing all
* occurrences of it with another letter while the ordering of the letters remains unchanged. No two letters
* may map to the same letter, but a letter may map to itself.
*
* Example:
* given "foo", "app"; returns true
* we can map 'f' -> 'a' and 'o' -> 'p'
*
* given "bar", "foo"; returns false
* we can't map both 'a' and 'r' to 'o'
*
* given "turtle", "tletur"; returns true
* we can map 't' -> 't', 'u' -> 'l', 'r' -> 'e', 'l' -> 'u', 'e' ->'r'
*
* given "ab", "ca"; returns true
* we can map 'a' -> 'c', 'b' -> 'a'
*/
Current MBA student, applied to PM New Grad position. Had attended the LinkedIn PM tour earlier in the summer for MBA students in PM roles in the Bay Area.
Had an initial call with HR after which a "technical interview" was scheduled with a PM. The technical interview had nothing technical about it, just 4 questions - about myself, my internship projects, why PM-role/why LinkedIn, and whether I'd been involved in a product launch. A 45 minute interview that ended in less than 25 minutes. A few days later I heard back saying they decided not to move ahead with my candidacy.
I'm not sure on what basis the decision was made (because nothing was asked that wasn't already on my resume). I spent a week researching the company inside out, had some great (in my view) suggestions and ideas but the interview seemed like a formality to reject my candidacy. Feel let down by the company and the process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Nothing unexpected, the most basic of all behavioral questions - about yourself, why LinkedIn and tell me about your internship projects