Someone from the Bangalore team interviewed me for the first round and then there were four technical and three non technical interviews from US. I cleared all the rounds and was asked to come for an onsite interview. The HR told me it's all positive till now and the only formality is to meet the team here in Bangalore who would be interviewing me, asking non-technical questions. The interviews went well and it looked positive when I left their office. However, after a few days the HR sent an email mentioning that I'm not shortlisted. I was in ambush and mentioned that everything was positive according to her. She said the team has chosen someone else that they were interviewing. The head of the HR mentioned that this is not right and she had escalated the issue to the management; clearly it does not make sense to reject the candidate just because they found someone else later in the stage. I'm still waiting for the head of HR to call me and let me know what happened to the escalation. At least they owe an apology.

LinkedIn contacted me, presumably from a search of their own site. I was contacted by email which led to a phone interview. The phone interview asked several fit and interest questions. The phone interview was followed by two pair-programming interviews in which JS Fiddle was used to determine my skillset. The first interview focused on general style and markup questions and the second focused on JS Fundamentals and pattern questions. Based on the interview and some of the more advanced JS questions I was fairly confident that I was out. They exercises weren't complicated, but it was obvious that I had a lack of experience in using them in application development (up to this point I had been more of a Corporate vanity site developer.)