I applied through a recruiter. The process took 7 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn (Sunnyvale, CA) in Dec 2023
Interview
Total process took about 7 weeks and ended in early December. A recruiter reached out in the spring and kept in touch throughout the summer.
1. HackerRank Online Assessment: 2 easy/medium leetcode problems
2. Call with recruiter: talking a bit about yourself and also about the role. This seemed more like a formality since I was already familiar with my recruiter
3. Virtual Onsite Interview: 1 hour live technical interview followed by 1 hour live behavioral interview with different interviewers. Live technical interview was a BFS problem followed by a few questions depending on how much time was remaining in the hour. Behavioral interview focused on my experiences and how I would add to LinkedIn's company.
Most of the 7 weeks was spent waiting for the virtual onsite interview after scheduling it. The interview time was moved a few times due to layoffs and other reasons, but was overall a very smooth process.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at LinkedIn (Sunnyvale, CA) in Mar 2026
Interview
OA -> Recruiter Screen -> VO
OA consists of 2 coding questions. Recruiter screen was short and easy. VO was 1 tech + 1 behavioral with hiring manager. Process was overall pretty chill. Got offer after a few days. Recruiter was very responsive
Amazing interview process with very helpful interviewers. The technical interview consisted of 2 DSA questions one based on Binary Search Tress and other on priority queues. First one was pretty easy and the second one was leetcode medium to hard. The HR interview was about projects and my technical background.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me what was the first wow moment that made you enter this field of software engineering
First, I got an online assessment. After, I got invited to do a recruiter screen. Then, I had one technical and one behavioral interview. The process was fairly quick, didn't take too long.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I think my coding question was finding unions between sets if I remember correctly.
