LinkedIn·Software Engineer

LinkedIn Software Engineer interview experience

IC2Posted Feb 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first step was a phone screening that felt pretty structured and straightforward.

I spent time on a project deep dive where the main goal was understanding the scale I’d worked on, and then it shifted into some CS fundamentals. We talked through Java basics and also got into process versus threads.

After that, there was a DSA question where I had to clearly explain my approach while solving it. Overall the tone felt like they were checking that I could communicate my thinking, not just get to an answer.

I didn’t end up moving forward beyond that early stage, and looking back it felt like the screening was designed to quickly gauge how I paired fundamentals with

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