LinkedIn onsite interview
I have my onsite interview scheduled for Senior SWE position at LinkedIn in the coming week. I’ve been trying to find a new job for the past three months after getting laid off, but the market has been tough. I barely only got 6 interview calls and made it to onsite at 3 - Hubspot, Meta and LinkedIn. I already gave my onsite interviews at Hubspot and Meta and failed them (got rejects this week), and in both companies, my performance in system design rounds were not satisfactory. Folks from LinkedIn and people who interviewed at LinkedIn recently, could you please help me prep for system design by sharing some inputs? Are there any specific kinds of questions that LinkedIn system design interviews tend to focus on for the Apps role? Edit1: I’ve been preparing from Alex Xu’s system design vol1 and vol2 Any input would be greatly appreciated! Thanks TC : 180k + 🥜 YoE : 5
'trying to switch jobs after getting laid off' ?
Edited, sorry
SD needs some skill. Try to read Alex xu vol 1 and 2 Where did you get interview calls from?
Alex Xu is poorly edited and put together, I found it way too distracting. Should be enough to just read DDIA after internalizing the standard design interview format outlined in AX and elsewhere
I agree, one of the mistakes I did was in the limited time trying to explain all the different approaches similar to the format in AX. The interviewer started questioning me on my first approach (which is not the main approach) and I lost time. Then I tried to compress a lot of content into a short amount of time and messed it up.
Do mock interviews with senior swe at LinkedIn
Hi OP, how did your system design interview go? Mind sharing some details?
Hi, I have one coming up, could you DM me, I’m out of msgs for this month. Would greatly appreciate it, thanks!
Keep up the same prep from your Meta interview. Good luck
I recently took my LinkedIn technical phone screen. Could you please let me know how the decision is made for whether to move the candidate to onsites? Is it a binary decision from the interviewer to the recruiter like - hire or no hire? Or is it a rating on a number scale with some cutoff? Like one needs to score 4/5 to be considered for next steps? In addition, how long does it take for the recruiter to communicate a decision? The track is infra and system.
Usually the outcome of TPS is go/no-go, timeline varies