LinkedIn·Software Engineer

LinkedIn Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

New York, NYPosted Mar 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a recruiter touchpoint, I ended up with two back-to-back LeetCode-style rounds.

Both were medium difficulty: one focused on a binary tree where I had to find a specific thing at a particular depth, and the other felt a lot stranger than the prompt sounded. The interviewer didn’t seem to know Python well, so the examples he walked through used Java-style container syntax that didn’t translate cleanly to my language. I found myself mentally mapping array vs dictionary representations while trying to figure out what he was getting at. Even with that confusion, I still worked through and solved the problem.

Once the coding finished, I didn’t hear anything back from the

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