I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at LinkedIn (Sunnyvale, CA) in Jan 2017
Interview
Contacted through a recruiter on LinkedIn. She described the company profile in very detail and explained about the available roles and let me chose the one that would fit my skills and interests. After setting up the phone interview, she sent me a detailed mail explaining the interview process, what is expected, what qualities are evaluated, tips to prepare, etc. It was very useful in my preparation.
Phone interview was very professional. After a brief self-introduction, jumped straight into the questions. Interviewer described the questions properly and clarified my doubts promptly. I walked through my thought process before writing code, and once or twice he provided hints to direct me in the correct path. I chose python to solve the coding problems and switched to java for writing hive udf. He provided ample time at the end for me to ask questions and provided proper explanations for my questions.
Overall a very good experience, though I didn't clear the round. The programming questions were straight forward for someone who had practiced well. I believe I should have practiced more.
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
1. Find if brackets are balanced properly in a given string.
3. Implement a hive udf - for the given string return a score based on the sentiment words found. (good: 1; average: 0; bad: -1) Ex. good food, bad service = 1 - 1 = 0
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at LinkedIn (Sunnyvale, CA) in Sept 2025
Interview
After talking with the hr, I was scheduled for one hour coding round, with 25 min algorithm questions leetcode question 3: Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters, and 25 mins sql with followup
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
leetcode 3: Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters
1st round was coding. The interview process was smooth. Asked some SQL and Python questions. SQL interview went well but Python interview didn't go well. They didn't call me for the second round. Overall I enjoyed the experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
SQL: Window functions
Python: Basic Data Structures
I applied online. I interviewed at LinkedIn (Bengaluru) in Apr 2022
Interview
I applied by giving a test on hackerrank platform. Test had 4 sections.
2 - coding questions
1 - sql question
1- MCQ
Within a week, I received a call from HR to schedule my interview for further steps. My interview was scheduled after 10 days.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Interviewer asked me SQL questions involving group by, aggregate functions and multiple join questions.