A recruiter responds to my application by emailing to setup a phone interview. After playing phone tag a couple times to setup the time, we finally settled for a Saturday interview which worked fine. After waiting for about 15 minutes by the phone, no phone call. I emailed her right away and she replies the following Monday apologizing that she double booked. Ok no problem, so we rescheduled on a weekday. Day of, I am left waiting for a good 20-25 minutes and the phone finally rings. She apologizes that she's late, etc. etc. and we went on with the interview. I thought it went really well. We ended with her promising that she'll get in touch with me the following day as "she believes in full transparency and disclosure and does not want people to be left in the dark", and she walks me through the next steps.
A month and a half later, and a couple of follow ups, I have not heard back from her again. RECRUITERS: As much as people do want to work at LinkedIn, please be respectful of our time, especially since some people, like myself, are employed and are taking our current employer's time to sit around and wait for you to get yourselves organized. And please do not make any promises you do not or are not capable of keeping.
I think LinkedIn is still a great product/service. I just wish recruiters are more aware and respectful of candidates' time and expectations.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn (Mountain View, CA) in Mar 2011
Interview
Pleasant experience overall. Recruiters were very pleasant to work with, i had a phone screen with the recruiter followed by a couple of conversations with employees and finally an onsite interview with 3 people.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If you were the CEO for Facebook what top 3 things would you do for the company?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at LinkedIn in Dec 2012
Interview
1st round f2f interview with a product manager
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
After "walk me through your resume" as a warm up, no behavioral question was asked. All the questions were focused on the LinkedIn product. My answers were challenged, so back up yours.
1. How do you like the endorse feature of LinkedIn
2. What metrics will you look at in order to evaluate the success of our product
3. How will you promote a new feature?
4. How will you improve the webpage of LinkedIn
The interviewer was very serious and had no facial expression.