LinkedIn·Software Engineer

LinkedIn Software Engineer interview experience

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Medium

Negative

IndiaPosted Nov 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a recruiter call, I joined a technical phone screen where I was expected to solve DSA problems.

I ended up working on a LeetCode-style question about finding leaves in a binary tree, and I got to what felt like an optimal approach in about 15 minutes.

What threw me off was how the conversation shifted. The interviewer didn’t seem to fully follow my reasoning, so they moved into database concepts like the difference between unique keys and primary keys, plus topics like 1NF and indexing. Near the end, they asked another coding question in the last 10 minutes, and I could only fully answer the first part by that point.

It was an average-difficulty experience for me overall, but the

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