Senior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at LinkedIn with 3.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 36% positive. To compare, the company-average is 54.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 20 days to get hired, when considering 125 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at LinkedIn overall takes an average of 28 days.
Common stages of the interview process at LinkedIn as a Senior Software Engineer according to 125 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 53%
One on one interview: 20%
Group panel interview: 11%
Skills test: 6%
Presentation: 6%
Background check: 2%
Drug test: 2%
Other: 1%
Personality test: 1%
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn
Interview
I was contacted by a recruiter on the linkedin platform, due to my experience in network stacks. I had a phone screen, two technical phone interviews (coding on collabit), followed by an on-site interview. The process is unreasonably slow and at times a bit insulting compared to the interviews I did at Facebook and Google. It wasn't a terrible experience, but I would not consider going through the process again without first exhausting the 1st tier options out there.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Do a depth first traversal of a Rose Tree (the data-structure) and print out each element
The phone screen was more intense than I'd anticipated, lasting about 45 minutes with a mix of behavioral and technical questions. They probed my understanding of system design, specifically challenging me to think through a notification delivery service. I felt prepared, thanks to the company-specific questions I found on PracHub that outlined similar scenarios. The final rounds focused heavily on the scalability and reliability of systems. After a series of interviews, I received an offer, which I happily accepted. Overall, it was a rigorous but rewarding experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design LinkedIn's notification fan-out service that delivers post-engagement notifications (e.g. someone reacted to your post or commented on your article) to millions of subscribers in near real-time, including how you would handle 'hotspot' creators with millions of followers, deduplicate redundant notifications when many actions target the same content, and guarantee at-least-once delivery across regional failures.
I applied online. I interviewed at LinkedIn (San Francisco, CA) in Mar 2026
Interview
Had an initial phone screen round-
Questions - Regular Medium level question, string manipulation
Follow up - Concurrency related on top of the first question.
Waiting for the second round right now
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at LinkedIn (San Francisco, CA)
Interview
Was greeted by a person who basically walked me around the office during my interview, did a couple of rounds with a group on a whiteboard solving a coding challenge, and one to solve a software architecture challenge. Had lunch onsite. And one round of interview with someone who wasn't technical.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write the code to generate an English language rendition of any integer up to 100,000,000.