LinkedIn Software Engineer interview experience

The session felt encouraging from the beginning, and even though I wasn’t very familiar with the topic, I still tried to build something solid. My instinct was to start with a brute-force approach, and I remember getting stuck before I could reach the optimized solution.

The format was more like a conversation around the problem rather than a pure timed sprint, but the technical goal was still clear: they wanted to see the better-performing approach, not just a working naive one. When I think about it now, I felt like I had the right start, but I didn’t get far enough to show the full depth