After a brief discussion with the recruiter (who was pretty good), I received a phone interview almost immediately.

Not to my surprise, an extremely inexperienced individual conducted the interview. I had read about this problem with LinkedIn interviewers in previous posts. The interviewer seemed least interested in conducting the interview. I feel I missed this opportunity.

I would highly suggest LinkedIn either have an experienced developer conduct the interview or at least a senior person who has actually worked in the field for a number of years and knows how things work when it comes to "working" and "performing" real-world tasks, other than searching something in a binary tree or linked list.

I hope this is not the case, but it seems young grads are insecure about their own jobs and are not letting good talent bypass them. Sad but true.

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