LinkedIn·Software Engineer

LinkedIn Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

BengaluruPosted Jun 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The first round was an online assessment hosted on HackerEarth.

I was given three questions total: two medium problems and one easy one, and I had 60 minutes to complete everything. I solved two questions successfully, but I ran out of time before I could finish the third.

That time crunch ended up being the story of the round. I had the momentum to get some progress, but once I got behind, there wasn’t enough buffer to catch up on the last question. The difficulty level felt fair on paper, yet the pacing didn’t work out for me.

I didn’t get an offer. Looking back, the biggest lesson wasn’t about the problems themselves—it was that missing the third

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