I applied online. I interviewed at LinkedIn (San Francisco, CA) in Jun 2019
Interview
Phone screen interview. It was as I expected it to be with minimal to no interaction with the interviewer during the coding questions. You would have to be really good figuring out optimal solution in given time or solved the question before hand. I was given a problem that required using a modified version of binary search. I was able to explain my approach but got caught up in the implementation part. The 2nd problem was easier since its on leetcode. Altho it was optimal and the code format was easy to follow, the feedback on the formatting was not good. I thought that's unfair. Another problem I had was I gave explanations to approaches for my solutions before and after coding. The feedback said I didn't communicate while coding. Not sure what the standard was for commination. It felt like I could say the same about the interviewer's communication.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1) given list is sorted characters and given input character, get the character if present and if not get the closest character in the array that appears before it alphabetically.
2) shortest word distance 2 in leetcode.
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
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.
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)