LinkedIn·Software Engineer

LinkedIn Software Engineer interview experience

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BengaluruPosted Aug 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The process started with a coding round where I was asked standard DS and algo questions, along with questions about what I was working on in my current role and projects.

I also got asked why I wanted to join LinkedIn.

After the initial coding portion, the interview shifted into design questions focused on distributed systems—specifically around designing something like Kafka as a message queue. That part felt like a real test of how I think about architecture, tradeoffs, and system behavior rather than just solving algorithms.

I ended up receiving an offer, and what made it feel like a good match was that the round mixed my actual project context with distributed systems design. Even though the system design discussion was challenging, I felt like my

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