LinkedIn [SSE] [Systems Infra] [Ghosted]

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Staff Software Engineer, Systems Infrastructure
April 13, 20252 reads

Summary

I interviewed for a Staff Software Engineer, Systems Infrastructure role at LinkedIn, progressing through multiple rounds including OA, screening, coding assessments, system design, and hiring manager interviews. After three weeks without an HR response, I consider it a rejection.

Full Experience

OA - 2 or 3 Med/Hard problems. Couldn't remember

Screening :

Some OS & Java fundamentals and 2 DSA :

  1. Similar to : https://leetcode.com/problems/bulb-switcher/description/
  2. Given list of words and a phoneNo. return the words which can be formed using given phoneNo. Pretty standard one.

CA1 :

  1. Exactly : https://leetcode.com/problems/all-oone-data-structure/description/
  2. Similar to https://algo.monster/liteproblems/366 . But it was N-ary tree instead of Binary tree.

CA2 :

  1. No of Island problem. Little twisted.
  2. Celebrity Problem

Design :

Design Metrics aggregation System

HM :

Past experiences mostly and behavioral questions.

Been more than 3 weeks and not getting any response from HR. So I consider it as a Reject.

Interview Questions (8)

Q1
Bulb Switcher (Similar)
Data Structures & AlgorithmsMedium

A problem similar to LeetCode's Bulb Switcher problem.

Q2
Words from Phone Number (T9)
Data Structures & AlgorithmsMedium

Given a list of words and a phone number, return the words that can be formed using the digits of the given phone number (like T9 prediction).

Q3
All O(1) Data Structure
Data Structures & AlgorithmsHard

Exactly LeetCode's All O(1) Data Structure problem.

Q4
Find Leaves of N-ary Tree (Similar to Binary Tree Version)
Data Structures & AlgorithmsMedium

A problem similar to AlgoMonster's 'Find Leaves of Binary Tree' (problem 366), but adapted for an N-ary tree.

Q5
Number of Islands (Twisted)
Data Structures & AlgorithmsMedium

A slightly twisted version of the classic 'Number of Islands' problem.

Q6
Celebrity Problem
Data Structures & AlgorithmsMedium

The classic Celebrity Problem.

Q7
Design Metrics Aggregation System
System DesignHard

Design a system for aggregating metrics.

Q8
Behavioral Questions and Past Experiences
Behavioral

Questions related to past experiences and general behavioral aspects.

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