LinkedIn·Software Engineer

LinkedIn Software Engineer interview experience

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Sunnyvale, CAPosted Jan 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My timeline started with a HackerRank that I completed, which then moved me into a recruiter phone screen focused on standard behavioral questions.

From there I advanced to the final stage, which had two interviews.

One was with a manager and leaned more heavily on behavioral discussion—past projects and situations—while the other interview was with two software engineers and was coding-focused. The coding part used easy/medium LeetCode-style questions.

What I liked was that the process felt cohesive: behavioral first at the recruiter stage, then deeper behavioral with the manager, and coding with the engineers. I received an offer about a week later. Looking back, I felt good because the interviews matched what the roles emphasized,

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