LinkedIn

Software Engineer (Internship) Interview Experience

January 1, 2018

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

A job opening for a Summer 2018 intern was posted on LinkedIn. A couple of weeks later, a recruiter reached out and scheduled an interview. I passed the first interview and failed the second.

Questions

Interview 1:

1 tree question
1 array question

Interview 2:

Backtracking question (solve an NP-complete problem)

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 51 interview experiences for the LinkedIn Software Engineer (Internship) role in United States.

Success Rate

45%

Pass Rate

LinkedIn's interview process for their Software Engineer (Internship) roles in the United States is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive71%

Neutral16%

Negative14%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for LinkedIn's Software Engineer (Internship) interview process in United States.

LinkedIn Work Experiences

Trying to be an engineering culture.

Senior UI Engineer • Current Employee

Mountain View, California, United States

Pros: The pay and the benefits are nice. There's a pretty decent work-life balance, but it can be bad depending on the team. There are some genuinely smart people working there. There's a solid mission that I believe a few people actually believe in.

Cons: Some ancient technologies and processes (SVN, JSPs, bad tooling, etc.). Getting code reviewed and deployed is a painful process. The tooling hinders more than it helps. Trying to become an "engineering culture" place, but it isn't a technology company. This seems to be driven from management as opposed to from the ground up, in an attempt to attract more Bay Area talent away from companies like Facebook and Google. Current turbulence as large restructuring in departments occurs and the stock price has fallen over 50%, causing a pivot in business plans.

Trying to be an engineering culture.

Senior UI Engineer • Current Employee

Mountain View, California, United States

Pros: The pay and the benefits are nice. There's a pretty decent work-life balance, but it can be bad depending on the team. There are some genuinely smart people working there. There's a solid mission that I believe a few people actually believe in.

Cons: Some ancient technologies and processes (SVN, JSPs, bad tooling, etc.). Getting code reviewed and deployed is a painful process. The tooling hinders more than it helps. Trying to become an "engineering culture" place, but it isn't a technology company. This seems to be driven from management as opposed to from the ground up, in an attempt to attract more Bay Area talent away from companies like Facebook and Google. Current turbulence as large restructuring in departments occurs and the stock price has fallen over 50%, causing a pivot in business plans.

A good place to learn with awesome and brilliant people

Site Reliability Engineer • Current Employee

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

September 9, 2020

Pros: Best people, free food, decent pay, great office, great work-life balance.

Cons: Comparing to other companies, no cons.

A good place to learn with awesome and brilliant people

Site Reliability Engineer • Current Employee

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

September 9, 2020

Pros: Best people, free food, decent pay, great office, great work-life balance.

Cons: Comparing to other companies, no cons.

Great culture, but lack of innovation

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Mountain View, California, United States

Pros: Great culture. Great care of employees and true care of members (users).

Cons: Plays way too safe and innovation is weak. Upper management is all about padding each other on the back and lacks responsibility.

Great culture, but lack of innovation

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Mountain View, California, United States

Pros: Great culture. Great care of employees and true care of members (users).

Cons: Plays way too safe and innovation is weak. Upper management is all about padding each other on the back and lacks responsibility.

Trying to be an engineering culture.

Senior UI Engineer • Current Employee

Mountain View, California, United States

Pros: The pay and the benefits are nice. There's a pretty decent work-life balance, but it can be bad depending on the team. There are some genuinely smart people working there. There's a solid mission that I believe a few people actually believe in.

Cons: Some ancient technologies and processes (SVN, JSPs, bad tooling, etc.). Getting code reviewed and deployed is a painful process. The tooling hinders more than it helps. Trying to become an "engineering culture" place, but it isn't a technology company. This seems to be driven from management as opposed to from the ground up, in an attempt to attract more Bay Area talent away from companies like Facebook and Google. Current turbulence as large restructuring in departments occurs and the stock price has fallen over 50%, causing a pivot in business plans.

3.0
Trying to be an engineering culture.
Senior UI Engineer • Current Employee
Mountain View, California, United States
April 19, 2016
Pros: The pay and the benefits are nice. There's a pretty decent work-life balance, but it can be bad depending on the team. There are some genuinely smart people working there. There's a solid mission that I believe a few people actually believe in.
Cons: Some ancient technologies and processes (SVN, JSPs, bad tooling, etc.). Getting code reviewed and deployed is a painful process. The tooling hinders more than it helps. Trying to become an "engineering culture" place, but it isn't a technology company. This seems to be driven from management as opposed to from the ground up, in an attempt to attract more Bay Area talent away from companies like Facebook and Google. Current turbulence as large restructuring in departments occurs and the stock price has fallen over 50%, causing a pivot in business plans.

A good place to learn with awesome and brilliant people

Site Reliability Engineer • Current Employee

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

September 9, 2020

Pros: Best people, free food, decent pay, great office, great work-life balance.

Cons: Comparing to other companies, no cons.

5.0
A good place to learn with awesome and brilliant people
Site Reliability Engineer • Current Employee
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
September 9, 2020
Pros: Best people, free food, decent pay, great office, great work-life balance.
Cons: Comparing to other companies, no cons.

Great culture, but lack of innovation

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Mountain View, California, United States

Pros: Great culture. Great care of employees and true care of members (users).

Cons: Plays way too safe and innovation is weak. Upper management is all about padding each other on the back and lacks responsibility.

4.0
Great culture, but lack of innovation
Software Engineer • Current Employee
Mountain View, California, United States
July 14, 2021
Pros: Great culture. Great care of employees and true care of members (users).
Cons: Plays way too safe and innovation is weak. Upper management is all about padding each other on the back and lacks responsibility.

LinkedIn Interview Questions

Binary Tree Upside Down

Transform a binary tree so that the original left-most leaf becomes the new root. The original root becomes a left child, and the original right child becomes the right child of the original root's parent.

Insert Delete GetRandom O(1)

Design a data structure that supports insertion, deletion, and random element retrieval, all in constant time on average. You'll need to handle edge cases carefully to achieve O(1) complexity.

ArraysArraysDynamic Programming

Nested List Weight Sum II

You're given a nested list of integers where each integer has a depth. Calculate the weighted sum of all integers, where the weight is the depth of the integer from the bottom of the nested structure.

ArraysRecursion

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