LinkedIn·Software Engineer

LinkedIn Software Engineer interview experience

IC2Posted Feb 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

Later in my process, I reached a second DSA round where I was asked for two specific coding questions.

It was very much LeetCode-style: I had to work through one on max consecutive ones with a circular-list twist, and then another problem involving finding the closest binary search tree.

This round was focused and direct—no long detours into other topics. The difficulty felt like they were testing whether I could handle variants of known patterns under the same interview constraints, especially with the circular nature of the first problem.

I didn’t end up with an offer from this stage, and what lingered for me was how quickly the questions moved, so I had to stay sharp on the exact

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