LinkedIn Software Engineer interview experience

The part that really stood out was how much they emphasized multithreading—specifically that the team needed someone with strong knowledge of threads.

From the beginning, the interview felt oriented toward concurrent programming concepts rather than general software knowledge alone. That emphasis shaped how I prepared and how I interpreted the technical bar they were signaling.

I didn’t end up with an offer, but the process itself felt well-communicated. My honest reflection afterward was that the multithreading requirement was central enough that it wasn’t something I could treat as a