1p3a Question · Sep 2025

LinkedIn SDE Onsite Interview Experience: 4 Rounds with Coding and Behavioral Questions

SWE Behavioral Easy
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Question Details

There were four rounds in total, two coding rounds, with two questions per round. The coding round gave two positive sorted lists; find the smallest k pairs of products. Some basic knowledge questions

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There were four rounds in total, two coding rounds, with two questions per round. The coding round gave two positive sorted lists; find the smallest k pairs of products. Some basic knowledge questions were asked; it seems the questions vary depending on each person's resume. I was asked some basic programming language questions. The coding round was LeetCode 235. Design a data structure where add, remove, and remove random operations are all O1.

Solution: a dict of keys to a set and a list. sd: metric system behavioral I failed, please give me some points!

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This is a reported interview question from a linkedin interview for a swe role during the behavioral round reported in 2025.

Difficulty rating: Easy