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Updated Feb 16, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Data Scientist at LinkedIn
Posted Feb 16, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in Mountain View, CA (took 2+ weeks)
The bad:
1) they NEVER reimburse my travel expense! the person in charge of reimbursement never reply and the HR kicks the ball around.
2) well, the HR. the LinkedIn HR told me to show up at 10:00AM, and I was told at the front desk to start interviewing at 12:30PM! And here's nobody there to have lunch with me! So I thought of calling my old friends at Google next door and completely forget about the company for their lack of professionalism, since I already got an attractive offer from my other interview in the city pinned by a huge needle from the space.
Fortunately another HR showed up. Then I spent 2 hours in the morning hanging out at a nearby starbucks (of course I paid for the coffee that they never reimburse, and i witnessed there how starbucks interview prospective coffee staff) before we had some mediocre indian food onsite.
The nightmare hasn't stopped. the HR tried to persuade me into accepting the offer right after the interview like a (Toyota) car dealer without even giving me a concrete number. It was around 6 in the evening. I was hungry because of the just-so-so indian food. I was really too tired after visiting two west coast cities from the east coast and having two extensive interviews in 3 days. And she started to say I appear to have the passion for the company ... well ... that lack of consideration really ruined the image of the professional social network in my mind.
The good that I have to acknowledge:
1) interesting (would-be) co-workers. Guess you won't miss Daniel if you run into the data scientist position. I highly recommend his blog (http://thenoisychannel.com/2011/08/08/retiring-a-great-interview-problem/).
2) Location. Well, that's a double sword since the campus site is getting surrounded by Google. But I do feel a very passionate hacker culture in the bay area.
3) the data problems at the company is highly unformulated. I guess there's plenty interesting things to exercise your ninja skills.
Other things to notice:
1) they didn't seem to care much about what you did if you have a non-computer science PhD. Guess you'll have to think over that ... it's a double sword on your career.
2) where will the company go? It's a sure thing that LinkedIn will never gain such traction as facebook. I do feel that the headhunter activities have declined a lot recently. While companies embrace for twitter and facebook as primary engaging channel, where will the channel that only talks about professional interaction go?
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Data Scientist at LinkedIn
Posted Feb 15, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 (took a day)
Two interviewers did this interview for me, starting with very brief introduction of their group (as simple as just tell you the name) and asked a technical question and then open ended question (or to say the question that they don't even know).
When the turn for my question, they just super quickly speak none sense abstract rubbish and hanged as the second they finished.
Plus, their hr girls are like just got dumped by her boyfriend every time they called and they just miss schedule, very NOT professional.
Seems that LinkedIn doesn't know what to do now, just need the workers to finish codings for little things.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Data Scientist at LinkedIn
Posted Jan 24, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 (took 2 months)
Very slow process. Tthe recruiter took very long to get in touch. Once she did, things moved faster. I had a phone interview with a Principal Scientist who sounded a bit shaky. Overall, average difficulty level. Heard from them after repeated emails that they decided not to proceed with my application.
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Data Scientist at LinkedIn
Posted Jul 16, 2011 — 2 of 2 people found this helpful
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4.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2011 (took 3 weeks)
Had two phone interviews with data science group. One was more design questions, machine learning background check etc. The second interview was strictly coding, algorithms and stuff.
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Data Scientist at LinkedIn
Posted Jul 5, 2011 — 0 of 1 people found this helpful
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2.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2011 in Mountain View, CA (took 1 week)
I was contacted by linkedin recruiter for data scientist position for which my background does not at all match. Similarly I had interview with Linkedin in exact same way for some front end technologies. It is ridiculous to know the company with largest professional network can not find right people for right jobs. Linkedin recruiters are very rude even after telling them my background is different and I want to pursue different role. They will make you give an interview for some random position in their mind for you and do not allow you to interview for positions for which you are a good match.
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