LinkedIn·Software Engineer

LinkedIn Software Engineer interview experience

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Sunnyvale, CAPosted Jun 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My path started with a Hackerrank OA that felt pretty straightforward compared to what I expected—mostly LeetCode-style questions at easy and medium difficulty.

After that, I had a quick recruiter chat where we covered my interests and my resume background.

The process then moved into live interviews: I spent about an hour on behavioral with the hiring manager and another hour in a technical interview. The overall tone for the behavioral portion felt like a normal conversation about how I worked and how I’d fit, and the technical round matched the same level of difficulty I saw in the OA. I ended up getting an offer, and it made the whole experience feel much more manageable than the harder processes I’d seen elsewhere.

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