LinkedIn·Backend Engineer

LinkedIn Backend Engineer interview experience

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Medium

Positive

Sunnyvale, CAPosted Oct 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with a call with the recruiter where I introduced myself, and they walked me through the interview process in more detail.

After that, I was given a take-home project with a one-week timeline, which became the main focus for that period.

When the take-home was done, I moved into the final round. That final interview was laid out as about an hour of behavioral discussion, followed by roughly two hours of technical interview time. There was also a shorter, 30-minute chat with an apprentice, which added a lighter, more conversational touch to the schedule. From the way the rounds were paced, it felt like they were trying to evaluate both how I thought and how I worked with others.

End to end, it wasn’t a quick

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