Ah ha!
A brief aside - during my Europe trip, we would all routinely fall asleep on the bus as we navigated to the next city. The tour guide would play "Alive" by Empire of the Sun when it was time for the bus to stop again for a toilet break. I have been conditioned that "Alive" means wake-up, stretch legs, go to the bathroom.
Wake, get up, and go to the bathroom, happens to match nicely with traditional wake-ups when not on a tour bus, and I realised this last night. So this morning I experience a relatively rare phenomenon: I woke up without the immediate desire to throw my blaring phone across the room - but that was replace with instead the need to pee. On the whole, I think it's an acceptable trade...
A good breakfast and downing a litre or so of water saw me heading to the LinkedIn offices. Again, my imaginings of 20 story pure glass towers was underwhelmingly shattered by a 5 story, normal looking, modern office building.
As a good candidate should, I arrived early and sat down at reception for the traditional twiddling of thumbs awaiting my host. Fortunately this didn't take long, and Sai greeted me and took me on the equally traditional tour of my interview room, the nearest bathroom, the nearest coffee, and finally to the cafe to see where I'd be having lunch.
The day consisted of 4 interviews on different topics by different people, split in the middle by a lunch with a different interviewer, designed more as a social interview.
How did I do? As always, very difficult to say. I think the topics were relatively easy, but that's not to say that I did well at them. I felt in the end that there were two areas I could have done better on. Detailing them would be against the rules I'm afraid. I suppose I will know just how much better I could have done in a few more days.
The frustrating aspect of all of it was I felt I could talk for an hour on many, many concepts and issues that we discussed - some of them I could run week long tech courses on. It felt a crime to gloss over them, hoping to convince the interviewer that in the 3 sentences I had to cover the topic, I had demonstrated a more than a passing familiarity with it.
I didn't feel too exhausted by the end, in fact I felt quite invigorated.
No photo today - LinkedIn really were quite explicit about that, and a photo of the outside of the building didn't really do it justice - the inside held much more interesting things.