LinkedIn

LinkedIn

Professional networking platform with rich data and ML-driven recommendations.

4 Rounds ~21 Days Hard
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The Interview Loop

Recruiter Screen (30 min)

Standard fit check, behavioral questions, and resume overview.

Technical Loop (3-4 Rounds)

Deep dive into domain knowledge, coding, and system design.

Interview Question Bank

Data Engineer System Design hard

Design a data pipeline to power the 'Who viewed your profile' feature. How do you handle the massive scale of profile views and ensure near real-time updates?

#Stream Processing #Kafka #Data Modeling #Scalability
Data Engineer System Design hard

Design a real-time dashboard for LinkedIn Job Postings analytics that allows recruiters to see how many impressions, clicks, and applies their job posts received in the last 24 hours.

#OLAP #Real-time Analytics #Kafka #Apache Pinot
Data Engineer System Design medium

How would you design a scalable ETL pipeline to sync relational data from MySQL (e.g., user profile updates) to a data lake (Hadoop/Iceberg) for offline analytics?

#Change Data Capture #ETL #Data Lake #Apache Iceberg
Data Engineer System Design hard

Design a system to detect spam connection requests on LinkedIn in near real-time.

#Machine Learning Pipelines #Stream Processing #Feature Engineering
Data Engineer System Design medium

Design a data warehouse schema for LinkedIn Learning. We need to track user video consumption, course completions, and instructor payouts.

#Dimensional Modeling #Star Schema #Data Warehousing
Data Engineer System Design hard

Design a system to process and store LinkedIn Feed impressions to ensure we do not show the same post to a user more than twice in a 24-hour period.

#Caching #Bloom Filters #Stream Processing

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