El proceso tomó 3 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en LinkedIn (San Francisco, CA) en feb 2019
Entrevista
One phone interview followed by an onsite with five rounds. There were coding, algorithms and one that focused on past experience.
I did quite well in the phone interview. The interviewer complimented me in the end and assured me his input would be positive.
I did well on three of the four technical interviews. In one of the design interviews I gave what I believed was the right answer, but clearly was not giving the interviewer what they expected. I could not get any guidance on what they might expect so we might discuss it.
I felt I did well talking about past experience. It was hard to say since it was very subjective and the two interviewers were quite poker-faced.
I did not get an offer. This is the second time I've interviewed there, done very well and still did not get an offer.
I asked the recruiter to call me so I could learn what went wrong. The recruiter agreed that I did very well in the technical and design interviews. I was told that I did not have enough experience in design in my most recent jobs. This makes no sense. A big reason I left those jobs is I was not getting the opportunities I wanted. I don't expect to be doing high level design the moment I join the company. That's silly.
The recruiter suggested I find a job doing high level design somewhere else and then apply to LinkedIn again. Fat chance. I'm done with them. I am an older engineer and wonder if this did not have something to do with it.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
I was asked to design a bitly type system that would be highly scalable.
Me postulé en línea. Acudí a una entrevista en LinkedIn (San Francisco, CA) en mar 2026
Entrevista
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
Me postulé a través de un reclutador. Acudí a una entrevista en LinkedIn (San Francisco, CA)
Entrevista
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.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Write the code to generate an English language rendition of any integer up to 100,000,000.
Acudí a una entrevista en LinkedIn (San Francisco, CA)
Entrevista
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
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
mutex and communication between processes
backtracking easy question (count islands)