Data Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at LinkedIn with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 56% positive. To compare, the company-average is 54.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Data Engineer roles take an average of 33 days to get hired, when considering 9 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at LinkedIn overall takes an average of 28 days.
Common stages of the interview process at LinkedIn as a Data Engineer according to 9 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 57%
One on one interview: 21%
Group panel interview: 14%
Skills test: 7%
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at LinkedIn (Sunnyvale, CA) in Sep 2021
Interview
Recruiter reached out to me via Linkedin.
Whole interview has 2 round as phone round & onsite round
Phone Round - 1 Hour split as 30 mins Python & 30 mins Sql. Questions were not difficult if practice some Leetcode question of Google & Facebook.
Onsite Round- Currently onsite round is virtual. There were 5 rounds in it.
1) Hiring Manager round- General questions like why linkedin etc
2) Data Manipulation - Simple sql questions, but do practice to write same sql in python
3) Data Architecture/Data Modeling - Question was more like an ETL question & not data modeling question.
4) Basic Statistics - Nothing much just simple probability type questions
5) Algorithm - It was again like data manipulation round. There coder pad was not working properly and even the interviewer was not sure what this issue going on. The interviewer joined as lets start data manipulation round where as the round was for algorithm. I think its internal sync issue.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at LinkedIn (Sunnyvale, CA) in Sep 2025
Interview
After talking with the hr, I was scheduled for one hour coding round, with 25 min algorithm questions leetcode question 3: Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters, and 25 mins sql with followup
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
leetcode 3: Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters
1st round was coding. The interview process was smooth. Asked some SQL and Python questions. SQL interview went well but Python interview didn't go well. They didn't call me for the second round. Overall I enjoyed the experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
SQL: Window functions
Python: Basic Data Structures
I applied online. I interviewed at LinkedIn (Bengaluru) in Apr 2022
Interview
I applied by giving a test on hackerrank platform. Test had 4 sections.
2 - coding questions
1 - sql question
1- MCQ
Within a week, I received a call from HR to schedule my interview for further steps. My interview was scheduled after 10 days.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Interviewer asked me SQL questions involving group by, aggregate functions and multiple join questions.