I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn (Mountain View, CA) in Dec 2013
Interview
Applied online and got contacted several hours later. First I have a phone screen with the recruiter. I chose the groups I am interested and scheduled a technical phone interview. After I passed the first phone interview, I got called by the recruiter and scheduled two back-to-back phone interviews with two teams from my first-choice group. After the two interviews was a 30-min talk. Got offers from both teams and I gotta choose one of them.
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Nothing particularly difficult. However, often they do not ask explicitly such as implement a certain algorithm or what does a certain data structure look like. They would instead put you into a real-problem scenario and you gotta choose what's the best data structure and algorithm. After you got an initial answer, they would try to push you further, such as asking how to optimize efficiency, what if the algorithm assumption has changed, what are the extreme cases where there might be a pitfall etc. Be prepared for such followups.
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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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.
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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.
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Question 1
can't disclose, but standard medium to hard levels