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 35% positive. To compare, the company-average is 54% 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 124 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 124 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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Failed at initial screening
Asked about mutex and how 2 processes can communicate with each other, I got nervous and coulnt explain my thoughts properly
Then asked the simple backtracking interview question, solved it, but also didnt do good job communicating
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
mutex and communication between processes
backtracking easy question (count islands)
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.