LinkedIn·Software Engineer

LinkedIn Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

Mountain View, CAPosted May 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I had a single one-hour technical coding interview that opened with introductions and then went straight into the problem.

The interviewer was being observed by another interviewer, but the flow felt standard and professional. After about five minutes of mutual introductions, I got a classic data structures question with explicit constraints on execution complexity that applied across all the APIs involved.

What stood out to me was how much the solution needed to respect those complexity requirements rather than just produce something that worked. I stayed focused on reasoning through the approach and managing the trade-offs the prompt implied. After the hour ended, I didn’t receive an offer, but the interview

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