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Updated Feb 8, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Executive Assistant at LinkedIn
Posted Feb 8, 2012
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2011 in Mountain View, CA (took a day)
Initial discussion with the recruiter was good. He seemed very knowledgeable about the company culture, the culture within the group I was interviewing with and the specific job. He was able to answer my questions easily and thoroughly. Unfortunately everything went downhill for the in-person. The recruiter I had initially worked with went out of town so I was given another contact. That person sent me directions to the wrong building, when I arrived nobody seemed to know what was going on. Finally they told me to walk across the street to find the other building. The interview was very informal, I think they decided on the fly who would speak with me. The team members seemed in conflict about what the needs of the Executive were and when I spoke with the Executive that I was interviewing to support, that person seemed to have no idea what their needs were either??? The interview ran out of time and they asked me to come back later that afternoon or in the next day or so. When I followed up via e-mail I was given a tentative time/date for a couple days later, when I followed up to confirm, they never got back to me (this was the Hiring Manager)..................................still waiting. About a week later I e-mailed the recruiter to find out the status and never heard back. I did one final follow up and still never heard back. Finally, weeks later, I was sent a form rejection e-mail from their recruiting system.
I have two pieces of feedback for them. 1. You should really just send a quick note to a candidate when you are no longer interested, it takes 5 seconds, it saves everyone a lot of hassle and I think it is just common courtesy. 2. Your company is located right in the middle of the Google campus, you are no doubt in fierce competition with Google, you need to be at the top of your game (I am speaking from experience with the Google recruiting process, and even though they are a giant company, it was still a more personal process......)
Ultimately, LinkedIn lived up to the expectations set by most of the other candidates who have posted reviews of the interview process on Glassdoor.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Software Engineer at LinkedIn
Posted Feb 7, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 in Bangalore (India) (took 1 week)
I have just attended the written test of linkedin. The written round consists of 31 questions and 40 minutes.
The topics they covered were:-
some 5-6 in perl script programming
2 questions in database
3 questions in c++
10 questions were puzzles which were very tough
some questions on network programming
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Skills Test.
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Software Engineer Intern at LinkedIn
Posted Feb 3, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 (took a day)
Had an onsite consisting of 2 hour-long interviews. Both were standard interviews for a college intern. Interviewers were friendly and also open about their own experiences. My interviewers were from separate teams, interviewing for their teams (so if one likes you, you can get hired onto that team).
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Contract Ruby On Rails Software Engineer at LinkedIn
Posted Jan 27, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in Mountain View, CA (took a day)
A senior engineering VP reached out to me using - of course - LinkedIn itself. He had taken the time to read my profile, venturing a friendly remark about a well-known company at which we'd both worked a couple of decades before. We engaged in a friendly and informative email exchange, and he arranged to call me early the next day. We spoke for about an hour, getting along very well. He asked if I'd be up for a follow-up technical screen the same day with a senior member of his staff; I answered in the affirmative, knowing I'd need to move around a couple of commitments.
So, his direct report contacts me at the appointed time, and almost immediately I experienced a "oh no it's going to be one of _those_ calls" sinking feeling. With no preamble, the guy - a former CS professor from Bulgaria - launched into a series of questions about my day-to-day influences, e.g. "What do you read to keep up with the Rails community?" I truthfully answered, "various Pragmatic Programmers publications, Stack Overflow, Y. Katz's blog," etc., which seemed to satisfy him. OK, fine. He immediately then challenged me how, programmatically, I would go about determining the set of integers between 1 and 100 evenly divisible ("remainder 0") by 3 but not by 9.
Fine: it's going to be one of those "how does this guy think?" questions, which I knocked out quickly. To my confusion, he immediately blurted out, "Wrong... wrong... that doesn't work," which I found a bit unsettling and bizarre. He'd asked me to do the exercise on paper (not how programmers actually work), which I did. Insisting it would work, I mentioned that I should have opened a console window and fired up the interactive irb interpreter, where Ruby programmers often test short exploratory blocks of code. I had done that, and found that my solution actually worked. The guy got hung up on a "thinking out loud" utterance I made at one point, involving the use of the 'yield' keyword, and chose to force us down a conversational cul-de-sac with no productive purpose in mind.
At a certain point, I knew with complete certainty that I would never work with or under this guy, and told him I'd like to terminate the interview. Oddly, he wanted to continue, but by that point I knew that every minute spent in unnecessary combat with my arrogant interlocutor was an additional point of blood pressure increase not worth experiencing.
The high irony of the incident is this: they're trying to staff a team to build out an applicant tracking system, some subsystem of which would, ideally, generate metrics for the effectiveness of interviewers. Sincerest best wishes to them in that endeavor.
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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
Average Interview
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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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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn
Posted Jan 12, 2012
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 (took 3 months)
Ok, this started as a really smooth interview, very nice people, free food and snacks, an iPad with me the whole interview period duration, shortly an environment similar to that’s of Google with les politics. A lot of factors made me say: “Ok, if I got an offer, I am accepting it”.
During all the loops except the last one (which I am going to comment on it shortly), the general feedback was very positive. Everyone was commenting on how smart I am, giving comments of type “Yeah, this is the same solution we adapted in our production environment, etc.”, so I was 100% certain that I am going to get an offer until I reached the final loop.
Usually in any company in software industry, the last loop is reserved for the hiring manager or someone higher than him in the food chain but with LinkedIn, my last interview was with a couple of QA engineers (a male and a female) whom look like it was their first interview loop ever.
They first gave me a technical question which they thought is going to take like 30 minutes but when it was solved in like 2 or 3 minutes, they kind of got puzzled cause they had no idea what they are going to do in the remaining time, so what did the female QA engineer did? She just invented a question out of nowhere that she was not even sure what she wants out of it. The question was simply: “Imagine an ingoing operation that keeps pushing integer numbers, we want to be able to quickly tell the median among all the last integers that were pushed to the system”
Fair enough, it was also like 2 minutes answer for that question. She didn’t get the answer (although the male QA that was with her got it just right away), so I spent like 30 minutes with a gazillion examples showing her how does it work, finally when she got it, she said something like: “Oh no, I just wanted to know the index of the item in the middle of the array formed by all the incoming numbers”, I told her are you talking about n/2? This is like a single line of code! She said “hmm, ok, no problem!”
So after that interview, I was 50/50 sure about whether I’d be getting an offer or not, a couple of days later, I received an email that I am not getting an offer.
Up until this point, I might have given them a neutral feedback judging by how great everything else was if it was not for the other screw up they had!
So in any company in the industry, when you plan to interview an out of state candidate, you usually confirm the interview date/time and then you do everything for them (reserve air ticket, hotel, car, etc. and pay for them all) and send them the confirmation. If you pay for anything, it would be just taxi fare from/to airport, meals and maybe gas for the rental car. They would reimburse you these tiny expenses back in like 3 weeks or less. Right? This has been my experience and my friend’s experience in nearly every software company in the market.
With LinkedIn it was different. Although they did the reservations and everything, when I arrived at the rental car company, they asked me for my credit card info cause no one paid for the car!! Same thing happened for the hotel, so what if I was not carrying enough cash on me or a credit card with enough balance?!! Why the they didn’t communicate back that those things were not paid for?! Why even they didn’t pay for them if they did the reservation?! I’ve no clue!
For the experience to even become more worse, their reimbursement process was said to take 4-6 weeks (don’t ask me why someone would need 6 weeks to do a simple reimbursement process but anyway), I contacted them after 5 weeks, and they told me that they sent the check to the wrong address (which is something that puzzles me cause I gave them my address printed on a paper which means they can’t say that my handwriting was bad or any crap of this sort) and then asked me to wait an additional week. If I didn’t receive it, then they can send it via direct deposit.
Now it’s like 3 days after I gave them my bank info and still, no money and no reimbursement for the over $800 bill that I had cause of this screwed up experience. They just contacted me that they sent another check and asked me to wait one more week!!!
Advice? If they contacted you for an interview, run like hell!!
Oh, on another comment, their interview process IS REALLY LONG, it took like a month and a half from the first phone screening until the actual full loop!!
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Account Executive at LinkedIn
Posted Jan 8, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 in Mountain View, CA (took 9 months)
I was referred by friend to Linkedin. They reached out to me back in March for a phone interview. This was a standard phone interview that focused on my background and reasons for looking at Linkedin. After two months they got back to me and scheduled a webex presentation. The presentation is set up with a few errors on the slides, you are expected to review it all and correct the errors. The presentation is held like a mock customer discovery call. The entire presentation process was fine, the follow up after was brutal. I was told that they would get back to me in 2 weeks. Of course I called after the time had passed and all I received was, "they're still waiting to make a decision".
After a month and a half I was called in for an in person interview. The interview was held with 4 different managers and took a total of 4.5 hours of the day. They quizzed me on what I knew about them. You are expected to know everything about your interviewers. STUDY their profile's before showing up. After the interview I was given feedback that I did well and I should expect an offer
1 month later and several follow up calls from me, I was told that they decided to promote from within but I was still a prime candidate. They also told me that they're in the process of relocating the sales staff and this was going to create more positions and they still were very interested in bringing me on board but it would be in the December timeframe.
The the next several months I continued to call and check on the status of the position. Every month the gentleman I spoke to would tell me to try back next month. Finally I decided to move on and look for employment else where. Then I received a call from the Linkedin recruiter who had all my information and explained that they were now ready to bring people on board. I was told that I would need to do one last in person interview to meet the new Director before offers would go out. After doing this and receiving positive feedback from the director and the recruiter I was again left to wait. 1 week later I received a verbal offer, 2 weeks later I was told they decided to go with a different candidate.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Presentation, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn
Posted Jan 10, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 (took a day)
A telephonic interview in which various basic algorithm questions were asked. Then managerial questions like why do you want to move, how did you hear about us etc.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Global Customer Support Representative at LinkedIn
Posted Jan 7, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2011 in Mountain View, CA (took 2 weeks)
2 phone interviews + 1 onsite interview that included three different timed tests of your skills (basic & advanced computer skills and language skills).
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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Global Customer Operations Representative at LinkedIn
Posted Dec 22, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in Dublin, County Dublin (Ireland) (took 3 months)
Was one of the most unprofessional interview I ever had. Part1. I started all the proccess with a phone interview with an HR agent. Part 2. Face to face interview and a writen test . After 2 weeks I received an email (an automatic generated email) with -"we do not have an appropriate position for you at this time". Part 3. four days later I received a phone call with "good news" telling me that I am still in the proccess and another interview is required. Part 4. Scheduled the phone interview next day with Omaha Office with 2 agents . I felt happy and confidend as I had a good interview . Checked in LinkedIn profiles and the agent I started with left the company. Wrote an email to the new agent that manage the posted position for an update - they said I'm still "in process " and they will get back to me. Meantime the same position with a specific language requirements (language I applied for) was advertised (managed by a 3rd new agent) . Here I wait anxiously another 2 weeks. I decided to write another email (using JobVite ) before Christmas and I received a Non Delivery message (previous it works fine) . Finally I sent an email to the new person in charge for them to tell me I was unsuccesfull. Here in Dublin it seems to be a big chaos and looks like the skills are not important . You need Look on your side not skills or experience. I feel very dissapointed as I trully believed in LinkedIn as a company .
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