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I interviewed for a Senior Software Engineer role at LinkedIn, went through six rounds covering DSA, system design, technical communication, and a hiring manager discussion, but was ultimately rejected.

I had a phone screen where I discussed my resume and projects for about 20 minutes, followed by two coding problems that I needed to solve and code optimally.

I shared my interview experience, which included a discussion on Java internals covering multi-threading, HashMap, Concurrent HashMap, JVM, and a specific Data Structures & Algorithms question about finding common ancestors in a graph.

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I had my second round of DSA interview for a Software Engineer (IC2) role at LinkedIn, where I was asked two specific LeetCode problems: Max Consecutive Ones III with a circular list variation and Closest Binary Search Tree Value II.

I had a pretty tough but smooth 60-minute DSA round for a Software Engineer IC2 role, where I was tasked with implementing an LZ78 compressor and decompressor, which I successfully completed.

I interviewed for a Senior Software Engineer (SSE) role at LinkedIn in February 2026. The interview process spanned a phone screen, HLD, DSA, and a hiring manager round, ultimately resulting in a rejection.

I recently interviewed for a Senior Software Engineer position at LinkedIn and unfortunately, didn't make it to the next round. I am sharing my experience and the questions I faced to help others preparing for similar roles.

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