LinkedIn Software Engineer interview experience

The discussion went into scalability and data structure choices, how you’d rank suggestions, and how you’d handle traffic at large scale. I remember being pressed to think beyond a basic flow and talk through what would keep the experience fast and reliable as usage grew.

After that, I went through two DSA-focused rounds with LeetCode-style problems. Those questions drew from linked lists, BFS, and the celebrity problem, and the interviewers kept the focus on my problem-solving process—approach first, then optimization, and finally code quality. Then I walked through my resume and projects,