SSE infrastructure | LinkedIn | April 2025
Summary
I interviewed for a Senior Software Engineer (SSE) role at LinkedIn in April 2025. The interview covered past experience, CS fundamentals, Java, and a Data Structures & Algorithms problem. I was ultimately rejected due to issues with my implementation during the coding round.
Full Experience
Recently a Linkedin recruiter reached out on Linkedin for a SSE role in their infrastructure team.
Round 1
Questions on past experience - discussed about one project in depth.
Questions on CS fundamentals - paging, thrashing, threads, process, mutex, semaphore
Questions on Java - final, finally, finalize, GC
DSA: https://leetcode.com/problems/shortest-word-distance-ii/
Verdict: Rejected. Messed up the implementation on coderpad - interviewer expected successful compilation and execution.