LinkedIn Software Engineer interview experience

The onsite was laid out as multiple rounds: two coding rounds, a system design round, and a final hiring manager round. The coding parts were medium-to-harder algorithmic questions where I had to communicate my thinking clearly while coding and handling edge cases. The system design round asked me to design a service for a real use case, and I had to walk through components like data storage, scaling, caching, and trade-offs.

Overall it felt pretty rigorous because the onsite wasn’t just about solving problems—it was also about how I explained decisions. The timeline felt like it progressed