I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn (Mountain View, CA) in Dec 2013
Interview
Applied to the position via Linkedin. Was contacted by a recruiter for an initial phone screen to discuss the job. Scheduled a 1-hour technical phone screen with 2 engineers the following week. During the interview, we used collabedit. Most of the interview consisted of technical trivia questions with one coding exercise using Python with regular expressions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Not difficult, but unexpected. What are the differences between processes and threads?
I applied online. I interviewed at LinkedIn (San Francisco, CA) in Mar 2026
Interview
Had an initial phone screen round-
Questions - Regular Medium level question, string manipulation
Follow up - Concurrency related on top of the first question.
Waiting for the second round right now
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at LinkedIn (San Francisco, CA)
Interview
Was greeted by a person who basically walked me around the office during my interview, did a couple of rounds with a group on a whiteboard solving a coding challenge, and one to solve a software architecture challenge. Had lunch onsite. And one round of interview with someone who wasn't technical.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write the code to generate an English language rendition of any integer up to 100,000,000.
Failed at initial screening
Asked about mutex and how 2 processes can communicate with each other, I got nervous and coulnt explain my thoughts properly
Then asked the simple backtracking interview question, solved it, but also didnt do good job communicating
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
mutex and communication between processes
backtracking easy question (count islands)
