I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at LinkedIn (New Delhi) in Sep 2018
Interview
Two rounds: Coding followed by telephonic interview. 4 Simple standard coding questions to be coded in 2 hours. A bit more than is all that is required to get selected for the next round. A coding round again in telephonic interview. Simple sorting and DFS questions this time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given initial and final positions, shortest path for a knight to move in a chess board.
It was a pretty typical process like other companies. Was asked about some abstract technical questions and round 2 was some leetcode style question.
Be prepared to answer heavy javascript in-depth questions if you're applying for front end
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Object and array - answer is to use hashmap. Similar to two sum
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn (New Delhi) in Dec 2018
Interview
First was online round on hackerrank ( 4 questions in total ), second was a telephonic round, third was a video conference with team lead ( not technical ). Finally an HR round (very short).
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn in Oct 2018
Interview
Phone Screen, followed by On-Site. They offered me to come on-site before the on screen but I was unable to due to prior commitments. The interview went well, but apparently not well enough for me to get selected.
Software Engineering applicants have rated the interview process at LinkedIn with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 93% positive. To compare, the company-average is 54.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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One on one interview: 14%
Skills test: 14%
Presentation: 5%
Group panel interview: 5%
Background check: 5%
IQ intelligence test: 5%
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