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      Software Engineer Interview

      23 Jul 2015
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Mountain View, CA
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn (Mountain View, CA) in Jul 2015

      Interview

      I did a technical phone screen (yes, as all have said, the questions are all from here - just prepare Software Engineer, Senior Engineer and Principal Engineer questions and you will be completely covered). Every coding round has two questions - one easy and one difficult. You will need to answer both of them to move forward. The phone screen was done (Solved both the questions in less than 30 mins) and I was invited onsite. The onsite begins with a tour of the office which is nice. The recruiting coordinator was friendly and nice. They gave me a loaner iPad with my schedule for the day. They also gave me a goody bag with a couple snacks and my LinkedIn connection map which was a nice personal touch. I then met with the recruiter for about 15 minutes - general casual talk about my job search. The first round is a host manager round. They question you on each of your prior experiences and ask you why you left that job, what kind of work you did there, how big a team, what was your contribution and so on. The second round is a coding round - two engineers and two questions (all questions are documented in Glassdoor multiple times from others so wont repeat it here). Third is technical communication and you have to explain your project in depth to an engineer - the engineer asks some questions on your decisions so please be ready to explain them. The next was the lunch interview - non technical and casual talk but the interviewer provides feedback on you. Next is a system design round (Again question is already on Glassdoor and is repeated many times - prepare variations of sliding time window system design for big data systems, and you will be able to answer questions here). Next was the final coding round - again two questions. Again just repetitive questions - nothing fancy. One of the final interviewers (he was a Senior SDE) did not know the answer to the question he posed. My code is an exact implementation from CLRS' algorithm book that I had prepared by reading up the question on Glassdoor. He did not get it/even look interested in getting it. His head was buried into his laptop and he could not be bothered into listening to me. He had a co-interviewer who wanted to talk/participate but this guy kept cutting him off - so unprofessional. Until this round, I had no negative impressions on LinkedIn and thought it might be a great place to work but this one guy started making me have my doubts on the quality of engineers there (again, there are bad employees everywhere - even in my current workplace - so it is probably just my frustration). On the offer, I did not get one. Overall, I had four good rounds and one bad round. Two things for LinkedIn to note: a. Please provide answers to the interview questions to your interviewers in addition to the questions from the question bank, so they know the answers to at least the questions they are asking and not waste people's time. b. When I am asked to provide interview feedback on the loaner iPad at the end of the interview, please ask interviewers to step outside. A shout out to the recruiter/sourcer and coordinator - Extremely professional and organized. The recruiter also gave me feedback on my interview performance on their own accord that the only negative feedback was the last coding round. The rest supposedly went well and it was a narrow miss. So one bad round could impact you a big deal..

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      All questions are already on glass door. Just make a list of all the questions and answer them.
      3 Answers
      15

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      Software Engineer Interview

      28 May 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Sunnyvale, CA
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at LinkedIn (Sunnyvale, CA)

      Interview

      Interviewed for an SDE role. The process was well-organized and the recruiters were responsive throughout. That said, the technical rounds were significantly more challenging than expected — definitely come prepared to go deep. Overall a valuable experience regardless of the outcome.

      Interview questions [1]

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      Software Engineer Interview

      1 May 2026
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Neutral experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at LinkedIn

      Interview

      That was a real stroke of luck — when I got to the coding round and encountered a question on finding the maximum subarray sum, I had literally seen this exact problem on prachub.com a few days earlier. The interview kicked off with a recruiter screen, followed by a technical phone interview. It was intense, especially with the focus on algorithms and data structures. I also faced some behavioral questions that challenged my experience. After a final onsite round, I received an offer and happily accepted. Overall, it was tough but rewarding.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Given an integer array nums, find the contiguous subarray (containing at least one number) which has the largest sum and return its sum. Walk through Kadane's algorithm and explain the O(n) approach.
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      Software Engineer Interview

      21 Apr 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      London, England
      Declined offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at LinkedIn (London, England)

      Interview

      Overall, a good interview process and the team were very friendly during the interview process and it was very good and pleasant. Nothing in regard to negative feedback or anything as such like that.

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