LinkedIn·Software Engineer

LinkedIn Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

United StatesPosted Oct 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After the recruiter coordinated the technical interview with minimal back-and-forth, I walked into a very intense session that started with basic systems and networking concepts.

I was asked to explain the difference between UDP and TCP, and then we moved into lower-level memory and execution topics like paging, as well as how stack and heap differ.

After that warmup, I got a LeetCode question with follow-up questions that pushed me further. The tone of the round felt genuinely difficult overall—more than just a single coding problem—and I spent a lot of time trying to reconcile the systems explanations with the more algorithmic follow-through.

I didn’t receive an offer. My honest reflection was that even when I could talk through parts of the systems material, the

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