LinkedIn·Software Engineer

LinkedIn Software Engineer interview experience

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BengaluruPosted Sep 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I applied for the off-campus SDE intern role and went through a process that started with resume shortlisting based on my academic background and projects.

After that, I got an online assessment with two DSA coding problems. One was about finding the best downward tree path sum using a DFS-based approach over a tree defined by parent-child relationships. The other asked me to minimize the maximum vulnerability, which I solved using a binary search combined with a greedy strategy to choose non-adjacent servers.

Both solutions passed the test cases, so I felt good about my performance on the technical portion. Still, I wasn’t selected for further stages, which was disappointing because the work itself clearly wasn’t the problem.

Looking back, I

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