LinkedIn·Software Engineer

LinkedIn Software Engineer interview experience

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San Francisco, CAPosted Oct 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with a recruiter-to-technical handoff, and about a week later I was in a technical interview round where the pacing felt very structured.

The first set of questions was more systems-focused than typical LeetCode—asking me about the pros and cons of different caching approaches. From there, I worked through a medium LeetCode-style graph problem on undirected graphs, focused on finding connected groups.

The same round also included a fundamental concurrency question, where I was asked about the difference between a thread and a process. What stood out was how interactive the interviewer was: they were willing to give basic hints and keep the conversation going while I optimized the solution rather than shutting it down at the

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