Status: Software Engineer Intern, MS CS Top 50 CS school
Position: SWE Intern at LinkedIn
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
Date: December 10, 2019

Round 1 (HackerRank Online Assessment):
2 easy coding questions, to be completed in 75 minutes.

Round 2 (Call with Recruiter):
General questions to the responses I had answered in the survey given like about my interests, goals, why LinkedIn. She then told about the internship experience at LinkedIn as well as the interview process to follow.

Round 3 (Technical Phone Screen 1):
What is REST? What all do you know about REST?

1. Check if the given set of parentheses (only round brackets like '(' & ')') is valid.
   Follow-up: Time Complexity, corner cases, memory-efficient solution

2. Nested List Weight Sum

3. Nested List Weight Sum II
   Follow-up: Time Complexity, try to solve in memory-efficient iterative way instead of the recursive way

Round 4 (Technical Phone Screen 2):

1. Roman to Integer
   Follow-up: Time Complexity, Immutable strings: StringBuilder vs StringBuffer, Usage of java iterator to handle concurrent modification exception

2. Max Stack
   Follow-up: Time Complexity for efficient usage, priority queue time complexities

Round 5 (Video call with Hiring Manager):
General discussion about my interests and the team's work.

Timeline
1 October: Applied
18 November: Email for HackerRank Online Assessment
18 November: HackerRank Online Assessment
19 November: Email for LinkedIn Intro Chat with Recruiter
21 November: Call with Recruiter
10 December: Technical Phone Screen 1
10 December: Technical Phone Screen 2
17 December: Call from recruiter that I passed the interviews. Team matching stage begins
14 January: Video call with Hiring Manager
15 January: Offer

Team matching took time because of the Winter break.