LinkedIn Software Engineer interview experience

I went through regular LeetCode-style questions where I had to write solutions on a whiteboard and walk through my reasoning as I went.

I remember getting leetcode medium problems, including ones that involved strings, and I also had to do a walkthrough of my past projects. The process kept returning to that same idea: explain your thought process, not just the final answer. There was also a component where trade-offs mattered, since part of the conversation was comparing approaches and implications.

I received an offer, and the overall feel was that the interviewers were evaluating how I