LinkedIn Software Engineer Phone Screen Questions

Given a standard binary tree, print the maximum value in each possible path from the root of the tree to the leaf as a list Any approach or similar question?

Interview started with introduction and background and explain about the most interesting project and challenges faced. Location : Sunnyvale. Then 2 coding questions https://leetcode.com/problems/valid-parentheses/ (With some integers and special characters also as part...

Telephone screen round Started with a brief Introduction Asked to draw an HLD of the current services you\u2019re working upon - TPS in each service - Queuing write semantics - DB consistency levels - Authorization...

Hey guys, I just went through the initial screening round. 1. Project deep dive (wanted to understand under how much scale I have worked) 2. Few CS fundamentals - Java basics - Process vs Threads 3. O

I recently interviewed for a Senior Software Engineer position at LinkedIn. Unfortunately, I didn't make it to the next round, but I wanted to share the questions and my experience to help others prep

Hi, got an interesting question in Phone screen interview. Hopefully it will help someone. Trying to share the idea of the question. the actual language might be different in the question. Linked has

1. **If it's a string with numbers, return true otherwise false** - [Valid Number](https://leetcode.com/problems/valid-number/description/) You're expected to figure out that it's valid number and com

I recently went through the placement process for a product-based company. The first round was a coding test with questions on Linked List and Sliding Window, and I was able to clear it confidently. N

Month of Interview : Feb 2026 YOE : 4 years I recently got the opportunity to interview for a SSE role at LinkedIn and felt like sharing the interview experience. # Phone Screen Round - Past projects

This post was last edited by Anonymous on 2025-10-02 14:19 I wasn't well-prepared for the store with Miss ABC. I couldn't solve one of the frequently tested hard coding problems. System & Infrastructu

**Candidate Profile:** Software Engineer with 2.5 Years of Experience (YOE). **Phone Screen Round** * **Topics:** Operating System concepts, deep dive into past projects, and specific engineering chal

Pretty standard problem asked https://leetcode.com/problems/closest-leaf-in-a-binary-tree/description/. Instead of the closest leaf we needed to return the value. I discussed approach: > construct path from root to node > reverse iterate path & for each...

I had my LinkedIn onsite interview last week. Here\u2019s a summary of my experience: ### Phone Screen: - Solved 2 DSA questions, wrote optimal code for both. ### Onsite Rounds:...

I recently had the opportunity to interview for the SDE-1 Backend role at PhonePe, and I wanted to share my experience. The interview was conducted by Sahil Malik (LinkedIn). Round 1...

Round 1 : https://leetcode.com/problems/max-stack/description/ Eventhough I gave optimal solution, they still rejected. The interviewers were pretty much not interested to take interview.

May 2025 CS Grad here. After almost 200 applications, finally got an entry level SWE job. Here’s how my interview process went. -90k base -10% yearly bonus -3000 shares -MCOL After a great first round

Recently had my screening round at Linkedin. There were two interviewers. Initial 10 minutes were basic resume discussion. 2 DSA questions were asked then:- 1. https://leetcode.com/problems/bulb-switcher/description/ - was presented in a...

Phone Screen -> Final vs finally, thread vs process, Os concepts like pagination and segmentation, about previous projects and what extra could I have changed in that. -> DSA - https://leetcode.com/problems/paint-house/description/?envType=company&envId=linkedin&favoriteSlug=linkedin-six-months **DSA ROUND...

First 3 - 5 mins -> Introduction Next 10 mins -> project discussion (with some technical follow ups) Next 40 mins -> 2 coding questions (1 Easy, 1 Medium) \t...

Talk about a project in depth. Java basic questions - inner class, mutex vs semaphore. Variant of https://leetcode.com/problems/letter-combinations-of-a-phone-number/description/ Given the standard mapping from English letters to digits on a phone keypad (1 \u2192...