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Five-Round Onsite, Timezone Curveball in System Design

LinkedInSoftware Engineer · Senior+ · Onsite · Feb 2026

LinkedIn onsite interview experience, giving back to the community here. Some background first: I'm an SDE3 with 5 years of experience. I'd been grinding coding problems for a while, but my system design prep was just so-so. The whole onsite was five rounds, one hour each: Round 1 was a project deep dive. I talked through two projects, and the interviewer kept the conversation pretty natural, dig…

Shared by a candidate · reported Feb 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.