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THE LOOP
How the LinkedIn loop usually runs
Software Engineer
Based on 44 candidate reports, latest Sep 2026
- Technical phone screen48%
- Onsite or virtual loop57%
- Coding rounds82%
- System design66%
- Hiring manager50%
- Behavioral32%
Percentages are the share of reports that mention each stage. They come from what candidates wrote, not from an official process.
WHAT TO PREPARE
Topics that come up most
Software Engineer
Based on 44 candidate reports, latest Sep 2026
- Trees and tries19
- Arrays and strings16
- Graphs and BFS/DFS10
- SQL and data modeling10
- API design and integration9
- Caches (LRU/LFU)7
Topic counts are the number of candidate reports that mention each topic. They are based on reported experiences, not an official company syllabus.
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| Free preview | Experience | Applications loop: max subarray, LCA, metrics system design May 2025 | → |
| Free preview | Experience | LinkedIn | Senior Software Engineer | Bangalore | Offer Aug 2026 | → |
Experience | LinkedIn Interview experience | SWE | Frontend Apr 2025 | → | |
Experience | Front-end loop: machine coding, infinite scroll, calculator with undo 2025 | → | |
Experience | Senior front-end: JS internals, machine coding, front-end system design 2026 | → | |
Experience | Full loop, 2nd attempt: coding cleared, strong hire on TPS, rejected overall Mar 2026 | → | |
Experience | Six-round loop: DSA, calendar design, hiring manager Jul 2025 | → | |
Experience | Top shared LinkedIn posts by time window Apr 2022 | → | |
Experience | LinkedIn interview experience Aug 2026 | → | |
Experience | LinkedIn Interview Experience | 3 YOE – SWE, Applications Aug 2026 | → | |
Experience | SWE Bangalore: 6-round loop, 2.7 YOE, offer received Feb 2024 | → | |
Experience | India | LinkedIn | SWE | Interview Experience Jul 2026 | → | |
Experience | Interview Experience | LinkedIn TPS | SWE Apps | 2.5+ YOE Feb 2026 | → | |
Experience | LinkedIn SWE Infra Interview experience Jan 2026 | → | |
Experience | LinkedIn | Software Engineer | Interview Experience Jul 2025 | → | |
Experience | Linkedin Interview Experience | Software Engineer(IC2) Mar 2026 | → | |
Experience | Interview Experience | SWE Architecture & Design Round | LinkedIn Apr 2026 | → | |
Experience | LinkedIn SDE Interview Experience | Bangalore Feb 2026 | → | |
Experience | LinkedIn | SSE | Infrastructure Team | Rejected Feb 2026 | → | |
Experience | LinkedIn | SDE2 Video Onsite Mar 2026 | → | |
Experience | LinkedIn | Phone Screening Round | Software Engineer - Applications Sep 2026 | → | |
Experience | LinkedIn | SSE | Phone Screen | Rejected Sep 2026 | → | |
Experience | LinkedIn Loop Rounds IC2 Sep 2026 | → | |
Experience | LinkedIn | Software Engineer | Interview Experience Jun 2026 | → | |
Experience | LinkedIn Interview Experience Dec 2025 | → | |
Experience | LinkedIn Interview Experience Jul 2025 | → | |
Experience | LinkedIn Phone Interview Feedback Aug 2021 | → | |
Experience | LinkedIn | SWE Intern | Bangalore | On-campus Aug 2023 | → | |
Experience | Linkedin Interview Chances Jul 2024 | → | |
Experience | Linkedin | Senior Software Engineer | Onsite Interview | Nov 2021 Dec 2021 | → | |
Experience | LinkedIn SWE Productivity Engineering interview experience (Jun 2021) | → | |
Experience | LinkedIn onsite | Staff Software Engineer | rejected (Feb 2025) | → | |
Experience | LinkedIn Senior Software Engineer Infrastructure Interview Experience (Sep 2025) | → | |
Experience | Linkedin Staff Software Engineer - Tech Phone screen (Jul 2024) | → | |
Experience | LinkedIn Staff Software Engineer Interview (Mar 2022) | → | |
Experience | LinkedIn senior software engineer interview (Jul 2022) | → | |
Experience | LinkedIn Interview Experience (Dec 2020, Bangalore) | → | |
Experience | Bad interview experience with LinkedIn (Jun 2021) | → | |
Experience | LinkedIn interview experience - hire or no hire (Feb 2025) | → | |
Experience | LinkedIn Staff Software Engineer interview experience, 6 rounds (Dec 2025) | → | |
Experience | LinkedIn software engineer intern, first technical phone interview (Medium 2020, written Dec 2017) | → | |
Experience | LinkedIn iOS Engineer Interview Experience (Sep 2026) | → | |
Experience | Senior loop: two-pointer, AI-assisted coding, API quota design | → | |
Experience | LinkedIn Interview | IC2 Software Engineer | → | |
Experience | Senior Software Engineer - LinkedIn (Systems and Infrastructure) | → | |
Experience | Interview Experience: 6-Round Full-Stack Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn | → | |
Experience | LinkedIn SWE On-site DSA round only completed 1 question because interviewer spent a long time on complexity/dry run. How would you read this? | → | |
Experience | ML phone screen: rand10 from rand7 and a classification system design | → | |
Experience | Onsite ML loop: feature engineering, model deployment, random sampling | → | |
Experience | LinkedIn | SDE2 Video Onsite Interview Mar 2026 | → | |
Experience | LinkedIn | SSE Infrastructure Team - Complete Interview Loop Feb 2026 | → | |
Experience | 3+ YOE DS/MLE: Full loop - AI coding, DSA, AI fundamentals, system design, HM round Dec 2025 | → | |
Experience | ML Software Engineer | Phone Screen [Pass] Jul 2019 | → | |
Experience | Senior Software Engineer (AI/ML) | Seattle | Jan 2022 [Declined] Jan 2022 | → | |
Experience | LinkedIn AI Engineer Jan 2022 | → | |
Experience | AI Engineer | LinkedIn | Virtual Onsite | Rejected Dec 2025 | → | |
Experience | LinkedIn | ML Engineer | Accepted Jun 2022 | → | |
Experience | LinkedIn Senior Data Engineer Sep 2024 | → |
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