LinkedIn Software Engineer interview experience

In the first technical screening, I dealt with something that mixed problem solving and fundamentals: I was asked about “number of islands” and also spent time on operating systems basics like processes and threads, semaphores and mutexes, plus concepts like PCB/TCB and a few networking basics. I also had the chance to talk through my past projects for about half an hour.

The turnaround before the next stage took about eight days. After that, the onsite coding rounds were more focused on algorithmic questions. I handled an N-array tree style problem in the first onsite coding round, and then