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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Oct 1, 2016
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Sunnyvale, CA
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at LinkedIn (Sunnyvale, CA) in Sep 2016

      Interview

      First Telephonic Round: Was cool, Interviewer asked two coding questions directly after introduction, asked to use collabedit. coding questions were quite common & can be found in career cup/glass door/leetcode etc. Make sure to finish first question fast & as correct as you can becoz it is the first impression you can make also you will get more time for second one. In my case I couldn't solved 2nd problem completely but my approach was correct. Onsite Round: Good experience, Started with small campus tour ended in huddle room reserved & personalized for you. Greeted with recruiting manager who gave brief overview of all the upcoming rounds, talked about what they are expecting in each of round which was very useful. Two coding round, One System Design, One Project Manager, One Current Project and one lunch round. 1st Coding round: Basic Tree question with lots of variations added during the interview. Focused on coding skills was more so make sure write code which can handle as much as edge cases. Since problem was pretty basic so Interviewers keep changing /adding variation to it. 2nd Coding round: Very tough question however as told by recruiter & interviewer in this round focus was more of problem solving skills rather than writing complete code. Got sufficient hints however I couldn’t solved NP-hard problem fully. Project Manager Round: Resume scan, Close review of your career growth and what you have achieved. Be ready to project your achievement as coder and handle questions like why linkedin. This was the only round where I was not standing & doing white boarding ;-) System Design Round: As expected this was focused on your design questions, interviewer was expecting to consider all aspect while designing a system like storage, concurrency, scaling & performance etc. I got very famous system design question which was quite common. Current Project Round: Nothing special expect some additional questions like ideal ways to ensure code quality. Lunch Round: Nothing special , good food choice, this is the round where you can clear your doubts regarding linkedin. Overall good experience , however after one week I am still waiting on feedback/result from recruiters anyways I am considering this as no offer. Good Luck!.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Problem which needs Binary Search technique. Binary Tree basic problem NP-Hard,Dynamic Programming.
      Answer question
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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Mar 25, 2026
      Anonymous employee
      San Francisco, CA
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at LinkedIn (San Francisco, CA) in Mar 2026

      Interview

      Had an initial phone screen round- Questions - Regular Medium level question, string manipulation Follow up - Concurrency related on top of the first question. Waiting for the second round right now

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      Feb 28, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      San Francisco, CA
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at LinkedIn (San Francisco, CA)

      Interview

      Was greeted by a person who basically walked me around the office during my interview, did a couple of rounds with a group on a whiteboard solving a coding challenge, and one to solve a software architecture challenge. Had lunch onsite. And one round of interview with someone who wasn't technical.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Write the code to generate an English language rendition of any integer up to 100,000,000.
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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Dec 9, 2025
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      San Francisco, CA
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I interviewed at LinkedIn (San Francisco, CA)

      Interview

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