LinkedIn Software Engineer System Design Questions
35+ questions from real LinkedIn Software Engineer System Design rounds, reported by candidates who interviewed there.
What does the LinkedIn System Design round test?
The LinkedIn system design round assesses a candidate's ability to architect scalable systems. Software Engineer candidates are typically asked to design a large-scale service or platform from scratch, covering database choices, API design, scaling strategy, and failure modes.
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LinkedIn Software Engineer System Design Questions
Did I get rejected because I had LeetCode stats on my LinkedIn ?
Couple of days ago I interviewed for a backend engineer role at Navan, and got into the initial loop which consisted of 2 rounds, a Code Design (LLD), and a DSA round. Code design is with an Engineeri
Interview Experience: 6-Round Full-Stack Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn
haring a recent **full-stack senior-level interview experience at LinkedIn**, which may help others preparing for similar roles. The process consisted of **6 rounds**, covering both frontend and backe
LinkedIn Software Engineer Infrastructure Interview Experience and Rejection
Hi everyone, Recently got interviewed at LinkedIn for Software Engg. Infrastructure role. ## Background YOE - 3.6 years (Backend engineer, Java, Spring boot) ## Screening Round This round consisted of
LinkedIn SWE IC2 System Design Interview Experience
System design round at LinkedIn. It focuses on both HLD and LLd. Duration - 60 mins. question - Design a metric collection and querying system. The system will both collect metrics from a large fleet
HELP: Preparing for LinkedIn Staff Software Engineer Interview
I have 8+ years of experience and 5 interviews lined up next week for a Staff Software Engineer role at LinkedIn. The rounds include: Staff+ Coding 1 Infrastructure Design and Implementation (IDI) Staff+...
Design Distributed Job Scheduler.
Distributed Job scheduler: YOE: 3.5 Functional Requirements: \t Create and schedule a job. \t\t\ti) one time job. \t\t\tii) recurring job. \t\t\tiii) Priority based job can be scheduled. Can check the status of the Job. Non...
LinkedIn Interview Result waiting time...
YOE: 3.5 TC: 40 I\'ve recently completed onsite loop for SSE role at LinkedIn India. Wanted to check how many days it generally takes to hear back result from recruiter? If anybody...
LinkedIn SSE Onsite Interviews Result waiting Time?
YOE: 3.5 TC: 40 I've recently completed onsite loop for SSE role at LinkedIn India. Wanted to check how many days it generally takes to hear back result from recruiter? If anybody from LinkedIn or som
LinkedIn Onsite | Staff
System Design: LinkedIn provides public APIs to access data on LinkedIn\'s platforms. Each API call is subject to a daily quota on a per company/per user basis. Design a system to enforce...
Linkedin | SSE | Bangalore | May 2024
Status : 7 YoE . Reached out on call, given 3 weeks of prep time. Contributing back to LC, since LC helped a lot in preparation. Coding 1: 1. Find the celebrity. Could not...
LinkedIn Senior Software Engineer | Final Round | US
Nov 2024 Tech Screen: 1) Similar to https://leetcode.com/problems/valid-parentheses/description/?envType=company&envId=linkedin&favoriteSlug=linkedin-six-months 2) https://leetcode.com/problems/nested-list-weight-sum-ii/description/?envType=company&envId=linkedin&favoriteSlug=linkedin-three-months Final: \tCoding 1: \t\tSimilar to https://leetcode.com/problems/find-the-celebrity/ except the list is a 2D array representing relations. \t\tExample Input: \t\tInput List: numbers = [0, 1, 2, 3] \t\tRelation Matrix: \t\trelation = [\t\t...
Linkedin Onsite Staff Software Engineer
Onsite had following rounds: 1. Technical round https://leetcode.com/problems/all-oone-data-structure/ Didn\'t have time to implement this, we mostly discussed the approach verbally 2. Technical round https://leetcode.com/problems/flatten-nested-list-iterator/ 3. System design Heavy hitters/top K exceptions from the logs 4. Craftsmanship...
LinkedIn | Senior SWE | Onsite | USA | PASSED
Hey all, Giving back to the community. 4 rounds: 1 System design, 1 coding system design, 1 pure LC coding, 1 Manager/Behaviour round. All 4 rounds were 1 hour in duration. Round...
Linkedin | SWE | System Design | Jan 2022
Similar to the question "Top K heavy hitters". Focus was on being able to provide the answer for multiple time windows like 1 hr, 1 day, 1 min etc.
Linkedin | Senior Software Engineer | Onsite Interview | Nov 2021
LinkedIn interview experience (Offer Received) LinkedIn Telephonic Interview some HashMap based questions, counting hits. Don\'t remember exactly. LinkedIn Virtual Onsite Interview Interview 1: Behavioral Interview Name : C* L Discussion about the current project and future...
Got reject from LinkedIn
Although I have more than 6 years of experience, I have applied for a Software engineer role. I felt I performed really well in all the 6 virtual on-site interviews. I was able to code all the questio
Got a SDE job after 10 months of job hunting and 4 months of unpaid internship
I wanted to share my story and motivate anyone who's looking for a job out there. I started looking for a full-time SDE job in DEC 2024 as I was about to graduate in May 2025. I grinded LeetCode for m
Nike | Software Engineer - II (SWE- II) | Bengaluru | Nov-Dec 2024 (Offer)
I was interviewed for Software Engineer - II which was a full stack role. I had applied in LinkedIn for this role on 15th Nov 2024. Got a call from recruiter...
Flipkart SDE-2 Interview Experience | June 2024
Hi All, I just wanted to let you guys know of the terrible HR team of Flipkart and get your opinions on to what this situation is !! I interviewed with Flipkart...
ThoughtSpot MTS3 Interview Experience
YOE:3 Interview June End, July Beginning 2024 Recruiter reached out to me on LinkedIn 1. Problem Solving Round (DSA)- LC Medium Question( Dont remeber from which topic it was) 2. Coding Round (DSA)-...
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