LinkedIn | SWE Intern 2025 | Bangalore, India

Status: B.Tech in CSE at Tier-1 College
Position: SWE Summer Intern 2025 at LinkedIn
Location: Bangalore, India
Offer Date: October 2024**

Online Assessment:
The assessment consisted of 3 DSA questions to be solved in 1.5 hours, with a mix of LeetCode and competitive programming patterns (2 medium and 1 hard). I solved all questions within 85 minutes and received an interview call about a week later.

Technical Interview (1 hour):
After brief introductions, we dove straight into the questions. I was given two dynamic programming problems, both standard yet requiring clear understanding. The first question was solved completely, and I explained the approach for the second. Both questions were of medium LeetCode difficulty, with the second slightly trickier.

Host Manager Round (45 minutes):
This was a conversational round with an engineering manager from LinkedIn India. We covered behavioral questions, and I discussed one of my real-world projects in detail. The manager asked questions on various aspects of the project, and our conversation extended to the life of software engineers and LinkedIn's tech culture. My project experience seemed to leave a strong impression.

Overall, the interviewers were friendly and supportive, as was the hiring team.

Result:
The anticipation was overwhelming—I couldn’t sleep the entire night. LinkedIn typically sends the offer email the day after the interview, so I kept my hopes high. By the next afternoon, I tried to relax by watching a movie when my phone lit up with a notification: "Congratulations on your offer." At that moment, I was on cloud nine. It was the happiest moment of my life, filled with excitement and gratitude. I haven't stopped thinking about the journey and experience awaiting me at LinkedIn, and I still can’t believe I’ve checked this aspiration off my list.

Outcome: Successfully offered the SWE Intern position at LinkedIn for Summer 2025.

Advice/Suggestions:-

Believe in yourself, pray to God. Getting many rejections helps you realise the value of what you will acheive when that single opportunity comes.
I believe consistency and levelling up gradually helps you to succeed.
Be honest in your preparation. Nowadays being honest to yourself is the key to crack companies as there is a hell lot of cheating in contests and instead of refining skills people are figuring out ways to cheat and secure high ratings.
"Where there is a will, there is a way" and "Don't worry about the outcome, put in all your efforts".
If any one else has also received the same offer please connect with me.
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