Tech IndustryNov 17, 2018
Microsoftpippin

Tips for LinkedIn onsite

I have an on-site for SWE at LinkedIn in a week. Anyone who has interviewed at LinkedIn recently care to share some tips ? Could be about the final preparation, or anything you felt that the interviewers were looking for in particular. Any help is appreciated.

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EA mast3r Nov 17, 2018

Sorry, not related to your question. But you are at Microsoft and Microsoft owns LinkedIn, right? So how does that work? You are applying at your own company without your own company knowing it or is it an intra company transfer and you just don’t know the culture on the other end?

LinkedIn 8Js3Yf Nov 17, 2018

Different company, different hiring systems, different interview loops, different hiring bar. Each company cannot see each other’s hiring data. All MSFT employee must interview as an external hire and vice versa.

Microsoft pippin OP Nov 17, 2018

Yup, switching from Papa Nadella to Papa Weiner ain't easy.

LinkedIn Gill Bates Nov 18, 2018

In general, interviewers want you to succeed. The emphasis during the interviews at LinkedIn is on communication and the process of getting to a solution. You should have a solution on the whiteboard at the end, but your interviewer shouldn't care too much about missing semicolons or other trivial stuff. If your solution is not optimal, make sure to take some time to discuss alternatives that would be more optimal. This may vary significantly between interviewers, but they're the general guidelines for interviewers.

Yelp ICDeadPpl Nov 18, 2018

Don't leave Microsoft for a company that Microsoft owns. That doesnt really make any sense.

LinkedIn jB3Y0 Nov 18, 2018

Higher TC, better perks, different challenges. How does not make sense?

LinkedIn psage Nov 19, 2018

I think you should get back to seeing dead people.