I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at LinkedIn
Interview
Had a couple phone screens and then two onsite interviews. I was able to meet a bunch of people and ask them questions too, which helped me with my decision. Great experience throughout.
I applied online. The process took 2+ months. I interviewed at LinkedIn in Mar 2017
Interview
1 screening round with hiring manager, 2 rounds of in-person interviews. 2nd round was with the hiring manager's immediate team. Final round was with the broader team, including PMs and a case presentation. Case about how you can creatively market to job seekers.
I waited almost 1 month before hearing back from the hiring manager. They chose someone who did better on the case presentation.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn (Mountain View, CA) in Nov 2014
Interview
1. Phone screen with recruiter
2. 45 minute phone interview with the hiring manager
3. Onsite 4 hour interview with 4-5 people for approx 45 minutes each
4. 2nd onsite interview for about 4 hours + presentation
I like LinkedIn as a company and think they have good potential. However, I think their hiring process is a bit too cumbersome. For a company that tries to make it easy for you to display your expertise and potentially get passively recruited by other companies, their hiring process is too time-consuming. I think they can do a better job to be mindful of a professional's time. To have 2 onsite interviews lastly 4 hours each is a big drain on someone's time, in addition to requiring a presentation that can take a candidate 10-20 hours to put together. I really think that's not respectful of a working professional's time to go through multiple of these hoops. I've interviewed at startups (series A small companies, Dropbox, Square, Pinterest) and large companies like Google, Facebook, and I think LinkedIn Head of Recruiting should really internalize and think about how they are setting up their process and whether it's mindful of a working professional.
Certainly, the recruiters I've worked with there are professional and friendly, and during your onsite they give you a giftbag and welcome message on the whiteboard, so all those small tokens are nice, but they don't make up for the high hours necessary for a professional to recruit at LinkedIn.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q: Why LinkedIn?
Q: How would you validate a hypothesis for a new product?
Some questions are behavioral, but I think most are mini-case oriented so that you have to problem solve through various scenarios.