Hi, was wondering if anyone who's worked at or interned at LinkedIn can answer some questions about the conversion rate for intern to full time. I've heard some anecdotes about how it's pretty high and wanted to hear your perspective. Do you have a rough % of the rate? In addition, how high is the bar for getting a return offer? Compared to say, Microsoft and Facebook? Lastly, do you think there might be a lower chance of getting a return offer in the Fall compared to the Summer because of the Summer interns who get return offers and take up headcount? Or should it be about the same? Thanks.
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I'm not sure if it's that easy to get a FT offer at Facebook to be honest. Some of the projects can be pretty demanding and it's not uncommon to end up working over 50 hours a week. Tiny sample size, but I know 4 classmates that failed to get a return offer and they really busted their asses during their internships. They also calibrate you against other interns on metrics like lines of code written and commits published.
If you don't suck you'll get a return offer. My LinkedIn internship project was a bust, but it was kind of a research project anyway, but I got a return offer easily. And when I was an intern (2014) they told me that about 80% of interns get offers and 80% of those accept them.
Wow research project in LinkedIn- that's pretty dope. Which team? Streaming?? (I heard that the lead author on the Samza paper was the intern) Sounds interesting though..
it’s pretty high
Last year the rate is 100% in my org (below director)
Which org? Data?
2017 summer intern here (Data org). If you finish your deliverables on time (try to finish it off 2 weeks in advance, just in time for the intern fair) then you should be good.
Thanks for sharing. Does anyone ever get an offer if they don't finish their originally planned deliverables?
Not sure about that. The only data point is- my friend wasn't able to finish his project and didn't get the offer. He is possibly one of the smartest people I have met (and technically sound) so this kind of made the opinion that completing the project was the only criterion.
Is it easy to switch from mobile dev to backend at LinkedIn?
This really depends on the department you're in. Obviously there will always be headcount in engineering. To be accepted as an intern already gives you a high chance of a full time offer. As long as you are able to complete most of the work assigned to you, the team likes you, getting a FT offer will be no problem. 70% of our interns usually get a full time offer to return (again most of them in engineering) Now if you work for other orgs you may not be so lucky because those orgs simply do not have headcount. And when they do have headcount they go for the senior folks (makes sense). Those interns may or may not have a return offer simply because of timing. I can't comment on other companies as I don't have experience with them.
Hey thanks for your reply. I'm going to be in engineering on an infrastructure team, anything in particular that applies to that area?
I doubt any team would hire an intern without the assumption that, if they’re good, they would get hired full-time. There are teams that only have senior reqs open, but those are also the teams that wouldn’t hire an intern.