What is the interview process like at LinkedIn? Hopefully you are asking for technical interview. Overall Process Usually two phases, telephonic interview and on site interview telephonic is mostly on coding and problem solving onsite is mostly on coding, problem solving, design. For Software Engineer When it comes to selecting a candidate, it depends upon the role for which you are being hired. For Software Engineer, most of the stress is on ability to write clean, modular code and being able to solve problem with reasonable complexity. For Senior Levels For Senior positions, design becomes much more important. One common thing I’ve seen is, given a design problem, people tend to think of it as a scalability problem, it is not. At least on senior engineer level, ability to be able to solve a problem is more important. For example, if you were to design a video serving platform, first think of how would you design a system that would just work for uploading and downloading video. And then think about how would you scale the system. Scalability is important when you are looking hired for more senior roles. And this is the important factor that distinguishes senior from very senior position. Being able to solve ambiguous problem on your own.