LinkedIn·AI Engineer

LinkedIn AI Engineer interview experience

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IC2Posted Dec 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I interviewed for an AI Engineer role at LinkedIn and ended up with a mixed loop that ultimately ended in rejection with a one-year cool-off period.

The overall structure started with a phone screen and then moved into a virtual onsite with five rounds.

What made the experience feel inconsistent was how the feedback landed. I received strong feedback on ML theory and also on product vision, which gave me confidence that I was hitting some of their core evaluation points. At the same time, the final decision still didn’t go my way, which left the loop feeling uneven rather than uniformly strong.

In total, I had conversations spanning the typical phone-to-onsite progression, and I spoke to enough people that my perception of my strengths

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