I received an email from the LinkedIn recruiting team for a Software Engineer in Test position at their Mountain View/San Francisco office.

After a week, I had an HR screening. Upon clearing the HR screening, I was provided with preparatory material for the phone interview round. The HR briefed me in detail about the process and what to expect in the phone interview.

The recruiting team at LinkedIn is helpful and reachable.

The technical phone screen round included a coding algorithm question. I recommend going through Glassdoor, CareerCup, and practicing LinkedIn coding questions. Expect a similar question on your phone screen.

HR Screening:

• Talk about your resume and previous work experience.
• Why LinkedIn?

Basic Java questions:

• How do you make a class/method thread-safe?
• How do you ensure a class is not instantiated?

Technical Phone Screen:

• First 20-30 minutes: Discuss projects on your resume. Basic Java questions (Singleton class, mutable and immutable, difference between String literal and new String(), mock objects).
• Remaining 30-40 minutes: Coding problem.