J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 3 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez LinkedIn (Mountain View, CA) en déc. 2017
Entretien
Applied through linkedin and got a call from the recruiter. Had a phone interview which I thought did not go very well, but I still got a an invite for Onsite.
Onsite was 6 rounds - Both the coding questions were easy, but for one of the coding rounds it took me sometime to come up with the solution and was not able to complete all requirements of the coding exercise. I thought LinkedIn values your thought process and how you arrive at the solution. They only look to it that you get the perfect answer within the first go, which is strange, because nobody who tries to solve a coding problem in the first go can solve it perfectly unless he/she has already solved it earlier.
One of the coding interviewer had heavy accent and I was not able to completely understand him. He seemed hostile when I asked him to repeat. But I managed to do that round of coding and he seemed satisfied with my solution at the end of it.
The design question were very vague and unless you say the points that the interviewer has in mind you will probably fail that round too.
Couple of days later the recruiter informed me that I did not make it.
The phone screen was more intense than I'd anticipated, lasting about 45 minutes with a mix of behavioral and technical questions. They probed my understanding of system design, specifically challenging me to think through a notification delivery service. I felt prepared, thanks to the company-specific questions I found on PracHub that outlined similar scenarios. The final rounds focused heavily on the scalability and reliability of systems. After a series of interviews, I received an offer, which I happily accepted. Overall, it was a rigorous but rewarding experience.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Design LinkedIn's notification fan-out service that delivers post-engagement notifications (e.g. someone reacted to your post or commented on your article) to millions of subscribers in near real-time, including how you would handle 'hotspot' creators with millions of followers, deduplicate redundant notifications when many actions target the same content, and guarantee at-least-once delivery across regional failures.
J'ai postulé en ligne. J'ai passé un entretien chez LinkedIn (San Francisco, CA) en mars 2026
Entretien
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
J'ai postulé via un recruteur. J'ai passé un entretien chez LinkedIn (San Francisco, CA)
Entretien
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.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Write the code to generate an English language rendition of any integer up to 100,000,000.