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Downleveled from Senior Staff, Four Rounds, Then Silence

LinkedInDevOps Engineer · Senior+ · Onsite · Aug 2026

Back in February or March I applied for a senior staff role at LinkedIn, something pretty close to what I'm doing now. The first round was behavioral, and I've always felt I hadn't quite prepared it right — I leaned too hard on execution. I interviewed at Stripe recently too and got the same feedback. In the end they told me they wanted to downlevel me to staff. LinkedIn's senior staff, on levels…

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