Standard hiring process same as other big tech. companies. First got a phone call from recruiter that explained me what the role was for. Then two 1 hour phone screens: 1st Behavioral and the 2nd Coding interview using collabedit. 2 days after the phone screen I got an email from the recruiter that hiring committee decided not to continue with the on-sit interview round. Although both phone screens went well, here are the reasons why I am rating this as a negative experience: 1. First interviewer (Behavioral) was 10 minutes late. I had to email the recruiter after I waited for him on BlueJeans for 10 minutes. The interview went well overall. It appeared he was happy with the answers and the background / experience I have. 2. Second interviewer (Coding) was 15 minutes late. The interviewer was constantly coughing throughout the interview. Even though this was a "Staff Software Engineer" interview she asked me a question related to "RAID." Still can't figure out the reason for it. But I was able to answer that question fairly easily as I do have good knowledge of not only Software Engineering but IT infrastructure management and related concerns as well. Then she asked me a few questions about threads, processes and mutex -- all fine and went well. Then she asked me to implement a blocking queue in collebedit. My primary language is C# and the recruiter did say it will just be fine as long as I can use any of these languages: Java, C# or C++. I asked her if I can use C#. She said no since she didn't have an answer for the coding exercise in C#. Even then, I completed the exercise in Java and the solution I implemented was technically pretty sound and that was confirmed by the interviewer. However, I was not given additional 15 minutes to work on the edge cases (even though, it was the interviewer who came in late) or improve the design. So if the hiring committee made a decision based on this, that would be really unfortunate and injustice actually. I did reached out to the recruiter asking the reason and also when I can re-apply. Did not get any response from them. I was expecting more from LinkedIn than this in terms of both professionalism and conducting fair interviews. Note: I have more than 12 years of leadership and hands-on architecture / engineering experience in the Software industry and have worked on many truly enterprise scale projects used by many Fortune 500 and Government entities.