I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Linden Lab
Interview
The interview process was smooth and quick. After speaking with a few people I felt that this company knew what they were doing and did it very well. Thinks were speedy during the process and all my questions were answered quickly.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Linden Lab
Interview
My initial contacts were all very punctual and precise. It was a three interview process. The company fosters a respectful demeanor to one and all. They communicate very well, both internally and externally.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Linden Lab (San Francisco, CA) in Oct 2014
Interview
The interview process was pretty quick. I found the position posted on CraigsList and responded. HR from Linden Lab quickly contacted me and did a brief phone interview. Then a Linden Lab engineer followed up with another phone screen. Then one final phone interview before they decided to bring me in for an in-site interview. During the on-site interview I meet one on one with five engineers from different levels. Finally I got to chat with the CEO for 15 minutes which was not previously planned. The interview seems to concentrate testing a person's general grasp of math and computer science, and general intelligence level, rather than testing memory of specific programming language features. At the conclusion of the interview it seems pretty much they decided they like me a lot. The HR promised to come back to me the next day, which they did. The entire job application process was quick and took less than three weeks from begin to finish.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was tested on basic trigonometry knowledge which I never prepared for. But since I am solid on math that was not an issue for me. Another difficult question was that I was presented with two teams with identical settings of a competition and both teams are very smart people and I was to help team A to win over team B. Initially I was puzzled as how could one team win over the other if they have everything exactly the same. Comes out the question is to adopt a strategy that gives a team the best chance to win, but not necessarily win it. Once that is clarified the answer is easier.