LinkedIn·Software Engineer

LinkedIn Software Engineer interview experience

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Posted Mar 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My LinkedIn interview experience for a Systems & Infrastructure Engineering role ended in rejection, and it felt like a tough, question-heavy process right from the start.

The overall structure included a phone screen followed by DSA-focused rounds.

During the phone screen, I was asked about solving a data-structure problem with an “all O(1)” requirement, and I remember feeling thrown by how the conversation went. There was also a question about an item labeled “#432,” which stood out as particularly unreasonable in how it was framed. As the interviews continued, I had to cover multiple DSA problems and was pressed on whether I had solved all of the problems across the technical rounds.

I kept coming back to the same uncomfortable theme: some questions didn’t

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