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Five Back-to-Back Rounds After a Layoff, Offer Within Weeks

LinkedInSoftware Engineer · Onsite · Oct 2026

A layoff recently pushed me to start job hunting. A LinkedIn recruiter reached out in the second week of August. The phone screen happened the week after that. About a week later I got a call to set up the next stage, and the recruiter gave me two weeks to get ready for the full loop. They offered either a virtual or an in-person loop and I went virtual. I would have liked a gap of two or three d…

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