LinkedIn Interview Questions
Practice 147 real LinkedIn interview questions for 2026. Covers all top categories — Coding & Algorithms, System Design, Analytics & Experimentation, Data Manipulation (SQL/Python), and Behavioral & Leadership — across Software Engineer, Data Scientist, Machine Learning Engineer, and Data Engineer roles. Real questions from actual interviews with detailed solutions; this collection is designed for focused interview preparation that prioritizes coding and scale-first problem solving alongside rigorous metrics thinking. Expect LinkedIn interviews to evaluate production-ready tradeoffs, clear metricization of ranking and relevance, and the ability to diagnose live-traffic regressions. For Software Engineer candidates, recurring themes include constant-time randomized data structures and frequency-weighted sampling, Top-K ranking service design and distributed-scaling considerations, plus classic array/string and stack-with-max algorithmic problems. Data Scientists should be ready for model fundamentals and optimization (logistic regression, backprop, Adam), causal and experimentation diagnostics for feed/homepage drops, and sampling/variance concerns in ranking metrics. Machine Learning Engineers will see recommendation and skills-inference system design, clustering convergence and probabilistic sampling questions, and production alerting/spike-detection. Data Engineers encounter efficient data-structure implementations tied to measurable production impact.

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Count islands and distinct shapes
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Find shortest word transformation with caching
Find shortest word transformation with caching You are given a start word and an end word of equal length, and a dictionary of valid words. In one mov...
Identify and Flag Bot Traffic in Online Forum
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[SQL] Job Ad Metrics with Applicant Filter
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Design a Randomized Multiset
Implement a data structure for integers that allows duplicate values and supports the following operations in expected O(1) time: - insert(val): Add o...
Debug Queues and Solve Arrays
This multi-part question evaluates competencies in data structures (heap invariants and in-place array manipulation), concurrent programming (designin...
Sample index from weighted probability distribution
Given an array weights[0..M-1] representing a discrete distribution over M outcomes, implement a function sampleIndex(weights) that returns an index i...
Solve Cache, Window, and Heap Problems
You may be asked to solve multiple algorithmic problems in coding rounds: 1. Frequency-based cache: Implement a cache with get(key) and put(key, value...
Design O(1) insert/delete and frequency-weighted random
Problem Design a data structure that supports the following operations in average \(O(1)\) time: 1. add(x) -> bool - Inserts value x into the colle...
Check perfect square using binary search
Perfect Square Check (Binary Search) Given a positive integer n, determine whether it is a perfect square (i.e., there exists an integer x such that x...
Sample index from probability distribution
This question evaluates proficiency in randomized algorithms and probability-based sampling, along with algorithmic preprocessing and data-structure d...
Compute inverse-depth weighted sum of nested lists
Inverse-Depth Weighted Sum of a Nested List You are given a nested list of integers. Each element is either: - an integer, or - another nested list. D...
Find top countries by population per continent
Table world_population - continent VARCHAR - country VARCHAR - population BIGINT Assume each row is a country’s latest population and (continent, coun...
Compute article-type diversity per user and histogram
You track article views and article metadata. Tables article_views - user_id INT - article_id INT - view_date DATE articles - article_id INT (PK) - ar...
Design a stack with max removal
Design a stack-like data structure for integers that supports the following operations efficiently: - push(x): insert x onto the stack. - pop(): remov...
Implement an LRU cache with follow-ups
Coding: Implement an LRU Cache and discuss concurrency Design and implement an in-memory Least Recently Used (LRU) cache data structure. The cache sho...
Count connected land components in a grid
You are given a 2D grid of characters where: - '1' represents land - '0' represents water A group of land cells forms an island if they are connected ...
Validate parentheses with one or three bracket types
Problem Given a string s consisting only of bracket characters, determine whether it is valid. A string is valid if: - Every opening bracket has a cor...
Implement fast sampling for weighted k-sided die
You must sample from a categorical distribution over k outcomes with probabilities p1..pk (sum to 1) without using built-in categorical samplers. You ...
Solve six algorithmic problems
Answer the following independent algorithmic prompts. For each, explain your approach, justify data structures, analyze time/space complexity, and pro...