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LinkedIn Software Engineer interview experience

IC2Posted Mar 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

One part of my interview process was a system design round that took about 60 minutes.

I was asked to design a metric collection and querying system, with an emphasis on both high-level and low-level design.

The system had to collect metrics from a large fleet of machines and then retrieve them over a requested time period. The question forced me to think about the architecture end to end rather than just listing components, and it also pushed me to go deeper into implementation details. I didn’t have any offer result attached to this particular report, but the round itself was clearly geared toward comprehensive design thinking rather than just a shallow overview.

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