LinkedIn Software Engineer Phone Screen Questions

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

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

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

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

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...

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:...

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...

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.

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...

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

I recently had a technical phone screen interview with Linkedin. I have almost 8 years of experience and the interview covered a range of topics from my current project to...

Position - SWE Exp - 2.7yrs Current Company - Top E-Commerce Company India Number of rounds conducted - 6 1. Screening round - 2 Easy to Medium DSA questions. I was...

Phone Interview: 1. Search number in rotated array. -> 1st question 2. Find the diameter of a binary tree -> 2nd question Onsite interview 1. Find the inclusive and exclusive times of...

\uD83D\uDE0A ~ \uD835\uDE52\uD835\uDE5E\uD835\uDE69\uD835\uDE5D \u2764\uFE0F \uD835\uDE57\uD835\uDE6E \uD835\uDE43\uD835\uDE5E\uD835\uDE67\uD835\uDE5A\uD835\uDE63 Given two sorted arrays of size n and m respectively, find their union. The Union of two arrays can be defined as the common and...

Bunch of conceptual and JAVA specific questions because I had mentioned in my resume I had worked with JAVA in the past. Coding: Flatten nested list iterator Follow up: Optimize

Few behavioral questions. Like: tell me about time when you led technical initiative, tell me how you can you remove yourself as a lead from a critical path. Code question: // Implement...

basic OS and Networking concept questions Max subarray + Max product subarray