I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn in Jun 2011
Interview
Had 2 phone interviews. Then an onsite interview. Very chaotic and a little disorganized. had a wide variety of people interviewing. Onsite had 6 sessions. Some with 2 people. Looks like they are still figuring out what to do after ipo.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at LinkedIn in May 2011
Interview
Had 3 phone interviews:
1) Usual stuff with technical recruiter.
2) Sales pitch and broad questions about my experiences with the hiring manager.
3) Tech Screen over collabedit.com with a random engineer who, after the usual questions, asked to code a generic (String key, Object value) LRU cache in 35 minutes. I spent almost all the time designing. I did not feel that the problem was appropriate for a phone interview.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn in Apr 2011
Interview
Applied through website and got contacted by HR. Then set up a tech phone interview a week later.
The phone interview was really really wired. Without any "Hi or how are you", he asked me 4 simple questions without online coding. Then he asked me "do you have any questions?" I asked him to give me a brief introduction about his team and what they do. Surprisingly, he answered: I do a lot of work. What you mean you do a lot of work??? and I asked 2 other question, he answered with no more than 5 words. And then it's over.
I interviewed a lot of companies, no one interviewed like this. Make me feel rude, disrespect and unprofessional.
I did not get responses yet, but i've already decided to reject this company.