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Updated May 21, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Feb 2012 (took 2 weeks)

Phone interview by two teams and selected to onsite for one team. Environment looks like a organized Facebook but with a lot of Indian employees.

Interview Questions

Describe your recent project. The reason why you leave the current job.

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Find maximum successive sum in a array

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given an article, output in a format that for each line, spaces between words are equal. (If impossible, how to deal with)

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Reverse words in a sentence

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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.

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4.0

Difficult Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Declined Offer

Interviewed Sep 2011 in Mountain View, CA (took 3+ weeks)

I really enjoyed the interview. It was very targeted to the role I was applying for. All the interviewers were very professional and easy to get along with. I was ultimately interviewed by 3 groups numbering 8 interviewers in total. You had your usual friendly people and hard interviewers that could smile more (nothing serious). All in all a great place to work!

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How would you improve LinkedIn's personal profile page?

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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Mar 2012 (took 5 days)

The recruiter contact me on the job application I filed. She asked a few Python questions and determined that I wasn't hands-on enough and said would check if there was a matching manager position for me. But she did say that even the manager position was required to be hands-on. I did not hear from her, as expected.

Interview Questions

What is List Comprehension? What's the difference between a list and a tuple.

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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.

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4.0

Difficult Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Feb 2012 in Mountain View, CA (took 2 weeks)

The phone interview was an hour, including online coding. First the interviewer asked about your resume, then coding questions.

Interview Questions

Write put/get methods for a BlockingQueue

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Print a tree level by level

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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Feb 2012 (took 1+ week)

First asked me about my resume. I was describing the detail of a research project I did last summer. The recruiter asked me how the algorithm was implemented. After that I was given an algorithm question. I need to find a number in a matrix. The matrix was sorted by row and column.

Interview Questions

Find a number in a matrix which is sorted by row and column

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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test and a Background Check.

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4.0

Difficult Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

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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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jul 2011 in Mountain View, CA (took 3 weeks)

They really focus on general engineering skills - ie, algorithms, game design techniques, thought process of solving a problem on your feet

Interview Questions

Design a scalable server for the hangman game

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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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4.0

Difficult Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Sep 2011 in Mountain View, CA (took 3 weeks)

Overall it is a positive experience because Linkedin is one of my favorite companies. The two phone interviews went well because the questions about relatively easy. In the onsite interview they asked me a bout regular algorithm questions, DP questions, distributed system questions, a game design question and most-interesting project. The questions are not as hard as Google/Facebook and sit in the same level as Amazon/Microsoft. The people are generally nice except two interviewers looking and laughing at funny pictures during interview. I am confident with my performance on all the other rounds except the one with two unprofessional interviewers, they interrupt me multiple times and always persuade me to adopt their "best" solution. Finally I was rejected after 1 week.

Interview Questions

game design, DP, string manipulation

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5.0

Very Difficult Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jul 2011 in San Jose, CA (took 2 weeks)

Phone Interviews - 2

One on one interview - 6
Each interview was an hour long. It was not a progressive interview (increasing in difficulty). All the interview rounds were the same. It consisted of an algorithm question that was asked to solve

Interview Questions

Design data structure to implement T9 dictionary

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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Negative Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jul 2011 in Mountain View, CA (took a day)

My worst interview ever. They terminated it at the second interviewer and I was lead out of the company. I can only comfort myself by saying that at least I saved my time.