I applied through university. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at LinkedIn (Mountain View, CA) in Nov 2013
Interview
I applied at my university's career fair. I got a call from the recruiter about two months later and we set up a call to talk about my interests. My first round interview was on the phone using collabedit, and was technical. I was asked to program a function that analyzed sets and sets within those sets. I solved it with a BFS/DFS variant. Though I felt I answered the questions correctly, I knew that I was a little nervous and was unsure if I'd make it to the next round. Just a couple business days later, I got a call notifying me that I would be interviewing in the final round. I got to choose the teams with which I interviewed. Each of the two final round interviews was technical, but the third phone call was casual. One technical question was a greedy interval scheduling problem, and the other was a binary search variant. I was also asked really specific questions about a data structure, but was not expected to know it all. The conversations went really well and just two days later I got a call with the offer.
Overall, none of the questions were easy, but nor were they extremely difficult. If you know your data structures and did well in your algorithms course, you will be prepared.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn (Mountain View, CA) in Nov 2025
Interview
Very nice process with an OA, phone screen and then Technical/Behavioral Final Round. Genuinely enjoyed the process and met some great people that lead me to take the offer. Just make sure you have knowledge of your projects and can show your impact. Also simple DSA will get you through the interviews, hardest part is just getting the interview, lmao.
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Question 1
Why did you design [specific part of project] this way, and what difficulties did you have when implementing it?
OA to HR Phone to Final (Consists of 1 Hour Behavioral & 1 Hour Tech). Interviewers were super friendly. Behavioral was led by Software Manager who grilled me on my resume and then asked basic behavioral questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q: Describe your work experience at X in detail. I talked about my role, company's product and my experiences.
OA and then Technical and then Interview. OA was 2-3 questions on hackerrank to be completed in about an hour I beleive; Technical was two leetcode styled medium questions in 1 hour, and behavioral was another hour right afterwards.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
can't disclose, but standard medium to hard levels