The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn (Bengaluru) in Oct 2011
Interview
Applied on company website. Got call immediately. It was for tools development for the management of Linkedin Servers (NMS/ EMS applications development). Interview process took almost 3 weeks. They took 5 rounds for me - 4 face to face and 1 - telecon (from US). I cleared all of them. After that they said I have cleared all of them. They will arrange one more last one with US folks. But no communication after that. HR did not reply to mail nor picked up the phone.
In short totally UNPROFESSIONAL people. They dont know how to communicate to people. At least have courtesy to pickup the call. HR at Linkedin India are immature. They called me 4 times to their office in the week days for face to face interview and did not even speak to me afterwards. No coffee/ tea/ water was even offered. Very arrogant.
The reason I feel they rejected me was they got another candidate from my company. Pretty cheap, they could have at least told me/ rejected me in the beginning.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Started directly with technical question.
How do you design the monitoring system for linkedin servers?
Some C, C++ questions..also on Data structures...
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.
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
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)