I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn in May 2017
Interview
The process took 1 month since they give you the choice to select how long you want to prepare for it (from 2 weeks to 2 months). The recruiter was really nice and explained what was expected in the interview, he explained the process and how the interviews are at LinkedIn, he also shared a lot of links for preparation. The first interview is by phone and screen where you have to code, it takes 45 mins. We started late because they couldn't communicate to my phone so I had less time to solve the challenges, it made me nervous and kind of stuck in 1 question, the interviewing team was kind at the beginning and they started to become desperate because they realized I was nervous, they helped me a bit, though. I finish the second question and it was already time, so they didn't give me feedback. I got some feedback from the recruiter later.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Bubbling and capturing, js tricky question to determine the 'this' context (what will this function print, kind of question)
I applied for Front End Engineer position online and the recruiter reached out to me the next day through LinkedIn message and asked for my availability. We picked a time but she never send me any invitation and she never called, I followed up with her if she is calling and she just said do you have other availability and I provided my availability but she never called again. That was so rude and unprofessional for linkedIn!!! I am a full time employee and I have to take some time off or cancel my meetings to make that time available and you just ignore other people’s time????
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn (San Jose, CA) in Jul 2018
Interview
I had 2 phone interviews. I Was rejected due to lack of JS knowledge. I think it was fair. To be honest, I have facebook and Google interviews coming up and my preparation is more focused on my algorithm skills than my JS skills. So all the basic css/html/js questions they asked before they actually started with the coding part, I missed like 70% of it. I am a React developer so I don't work with vanilla JS that often, The interview was really easy though. If you have minimal algorithm knowledge and focus on JS/CSS/HTML you will make it easy. All the questions they asked you can find on google. Nothing out of the world.
My recruiter told me I was reaaalllly close to get it lol. I felt that.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One Algorithm question with hashmap (easy). And 3 javascript event handler functions and DOM manipulation (also easy).HTTP requests, CSS preprocessors and HTML basics
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at LinkedIn (Los Angeles, CA) in Jun 2018
Interview
I got an interview about the front end position.
The guy said I am taking too long to finish my palindrome method.
I was working on the palindrome and he said it is not working on most of the case.
Front End Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at LinkedIn with 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 63% positive. To compare, the company-average is 54.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Front End Engineer roles take an average of 11 days to get hired, when considering 8 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at LinkedIn overall takes an average of 28 days.
Common stages of the interview process at LinkedIn as a Front End Engineer according to 8 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 47%
Presentation: 27%
Personality test: 7%
One on one interview: 7%
Group panel interview: 7%
Other: 7%
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