Web Developer Interview Experience - Mountain View, California
Process
1 high-level phone screen, covering a range of front-end topics: Accessibility, the box model, app performance, etc.
2 technical phone screens (using CollabEdit): One covering CSS specificity and closures. The other to build a small widget from the web app.
5 hours of on-site technical coding interviews (~1 hour per person). Problems covered implementing common functions, extending prototypes, recursing the DOM tree, CSS edge cases, and implementing a section of the live site.
Culture seemed pretty good. However, prepare to be a cog in the 80+ web developer machine.
Questions
Implement a function to determine if a DOM element is a descendant of another one.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 10 interview experiences for the LinkedIn Web Developer role in Mountain View, California.
Success Rate
LinkedIn's interview process for their Web Developer roles in Mountain View, California is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.
Experience Rating
Candidates reported having very good feelings for LinkedIn's Web Developer interview process in Mountain View, California.
LinkedIn Work Experiences
- 5.0Smart, nice people and a great work environmentWeb Developer • Current EmployeeMountain View, California, United StatesOctober 4, 2013Pros: LinkedIn has an excellent company culture, with great benefits and opportunities to work alongside many really smart people at the top of their industries.Cons: LinkedIn is growing rapidly, so it can be easy to start to feel somewhat minuscule in comparison.
- 5.0A place you feel at homeWeb Developer • Current EmployeeMountain View, California, United StatesSeptember 23, 2014Pros: Aside from all the shiny things (free food, great compensation, and a very fun and inviting environment), this company has made me feel welcome. The collaborative environment here at LinkedIn inspires relationship building and spurs creativity. Because of it, I understand how each team contributes, why each is important, and how I can optimize to be a better contributor myself. I feel encouraged to grow, but never pressured to overexert myself. This is a company that preaches and practices good work-life balance.Cons: I do feel like there is a ceiling at LinkedIn, but it is one that exists at any established company. It saddens me to know that if I want to make something more out of my career, like break into a steady, high six-figure range or make a few million dollars, I'm probably going to have to move on to a different company.
- 5.0Great place to workWeb Developer • Current EmployeeMountain View, California, United StatesOctober 6, 2013Pros: Awesome people Lots of food Flexible schedule Great cultureCons: Be careful with the food, there's a lot of it. Lots of growth, which is not really a con. Food trucks aren't year-round. Lots of meetings.
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