I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Linden Lab (San Francisco, CA) in Mar 2023
Interview
Recruiter - Phone call Manager - Video Call 3 individual meeting with 3 team members - Video Calls Had a final conversation with the CTO ... it was smooth process
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Completed a shared sceen assessment in real time. Talked about cuurent environment and recent projects
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Linden Lab (San Francisco, CA) in Oct 2014
Interview
The interview process was pretty quick. I found the position posted on CraigsList and responded. HR from Linden Lab quickly contacted me and did a brief phone interview. Then a Linden Lab engineer followed up with another phone screen. Then one final phone interview before they decided to bring me in for an in-site interview. During the on-site interview I meet one on one with five engineers from different levels. Finally I got to chat with the CEO for 15 minutes which was not previously planned. The interview seems to concentrate testing a person's general grasp of math and computer science, and general intelligence level, rather than testing memory of specific programming language features. At the conclusion of the interview it seems pretty much they decided they like me a lot. The HR promised to come back to me the next day, which they did. The entire job application process was quick and took less than three weeks from begin to finish.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was tested on basic trigonometry knowledge which I never prepared for. But since I am solid on math that was not an issue for me. Another difficult question was that I was presented with two teams with identical settings of a competition and both teams are very smart people and I was to help team A to win over team B. Initially I was puzzled as how could one team win over the other if they have everything exactly the same. Comes out the question is to adopt a strategy that gives a team the best chance to win, but not necessarily win it. Once that is clarified the answer is easier.
Senior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Linden Lab with 3.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 68.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 21 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Linden Lab overall takes an average of 28 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Linden Lab as a Senior Software Engineer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
Skills test: 33%
IQ intelligence test: 17%
One on one interview: 17%
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