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Senior AI Engineer Interview Experience

August 19, 2026

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Process

The tech screen and virtual onsite tech screen is a standard LeetCode problem. Then there are five rounds on the virtual onsites. I took it in two days.

Two are LeetCode tech coding interviews.
One is a recsys design interview.
The other two are free-style, involving presenting my own past projects and random ML questions.

Questions

RecSys design questions included retrieval and ranking.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 5 interview experiences for the LinkedIn Senior AI Engineer role.

Success Rate

0%

Pass Rate

LinkedIn's interview process for their Senior AI Engineer roles is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive60%

Neutral20%

Negative20%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for LinkedIn's Senior AI Engineer interview process.

LinkedIn Work Experiences

Good company culture and work-life balance

Senior AI Engineer • Former Employee

Dublin, Leinster, Ireland

Pros: The company culture is overall very positive. Colleagues care about each other and encourage positive and constructive feedback. Credit is given where it's due.

Cons: Constant re-orgs. The proprietary tech stack makes it a constant struggle to ship things quickly.

Good company culture and work-life balance

Senior AI Engineer • Former Employee

Dublin, Leinster, Ireland

Pros: The company culture is overall very positive. Colleagues care about each other and encourage positive and constructive feedback. Credit is given where it's due.

Cons: Constant re-orgs. The proprietary tech stack makes it a constant struggle to ship things quickly.

Great Pay, Long Commute

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Mountain View, California, United States

September 24, 2013

Pros: Great benefits, great pay. The company is headed in the right direction, and management really cares about employees. The stock is on the rise, making it a great place to work overall. I really like what Weiner has been able to do in his tenure and hope he can keep it up. The Mountain View campus is awesome, and the organized events that the company scheduled for us were a great time to meet some of our co-workers in other departments and socialize.

Cons: Somewhat long commute from San Francisco to Mountain View, long hours, busy work environment. Some co-workers were overly cocky and chose not to put in as much effort as the rest of the team. I left to pursue a higher-paid position next door at Google, where I felt my abilities were able to be better utilized because some of the projects at LinkedIn seemed low-level.

Great Pay, Long Commute

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Mountain View, California, United States

September 24, 2013

Pros: Great benefits, great pay. The company is headed in the right direction, and management really cares about employees. The stock is on the rise, making it a great place to work overall. I really like what Weiner has been able to do in his tenure and hope he can keep it up. The Mountain View campus is awesome, and the organized events that the company scheduled for us were a great time to meet some of our co-workers in other departments and socialize.

Cons: Somewhat long commute from San Francisco to Mountain View, long hours, busy work environment. Some co-workers were overly cocky and chose not to put in as much effort as the rest of the team. I left to pursue a higher-paid position next door at Google, where I felt my abilities were able to be better utilized because some of the projects at LinkedIn seemed low-level.

Free Food, Slow Pace

Software Engineer(Internship) • Former Employee

Mountain View, California, United States

Pros: Great perks like free food.

Cons: A big company, which can slow things down.

Free Food, Slow Pace

Software Engineer(Internship) • Former Employee

Mountain View, California, United States

Pros: Great perks like free food.

Cons: A big company, which can slow things down.

Good company culture and work-life balance

Senior AI Engineer • Former Employee

Dublin, Leinster, Ireland

Pros: The company culture is overall very positive. Colleagues care about each other and encourage positive and constructive feedback. Credit is given where it's due.

Cons: Constant re-orgs. The proprietary tech stack makes it a constant struggle to ship things quickly.

4.0
Good company culture and work-life balance
Senior AI Engineer • Former Employee
Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
June 14, 2025
Pros: The company culture is overall very positive. Colleagues care about each other and encourage positive and constructive feedback. Credit is given where it's due.
Cons: Constant re-orgs. The proprietary tech stack makes it a constant struggle to ship things quickly.

Great Pay, Long Commute

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Mountain View, California, United States

September 24, 2013

Pros: Great benefits, great pay. The company is headed in the right direction, and management really cares about employees. The stock is on the rise, making it a great place to work overall. I really like what Weiner has been able to do in his tenure and hope he can keep it up. The Mountain View campus is awesome, and the organized events that the company scheduled for us were a great time to meet some of our co-workers in other departments and socialize.

Cons: Somewhat long commute from San Francisco to Mountain View, long hours, busy work environment. Some co-workers were overly cocky and chose not to put in as much effort as the rest of the team. I left to pursue a higher-paid position next door at Google, where I felt my abilities were able to be better utilized because some of the projects at LinkedIn seemed low-level.

5.0
Great Pay, Long Commute
Software Engineer • Former Employee
Mountain View, California, United States
September 24, 2013
Pros: Great benefits, great pay. The company is headed in the right direction, and management really cares about employees. The stock is on the rise, making it a great place to work overall. I really like what Weiner has been able to do in his tenure and hope he can keep it up. The Mountain View campus is awesome, and the organized events that the company scheduled for us were a great time to meet some of our co-workers in other departments and socialize.
Cons: Somewhat long commute from San Francisco to Mountain View, long hours, busy work environment. Some co-workers were overly cocky and chose not to put in as much effort as the rest of the team. I left to pursue a higher-paid position next door at Google, where I felt my abilities were able to be better utilized because some of the projects at LinkedIn seemed low-level.

Free Food, Slow Pace

Software Engineer(Internship) • Former Employee

Mountain View, California, United States

Pros: Great perks like free food.

Cons: A big company, which can slow things down.

5.0
Free Food, Slow Pace
Software Engineer(Internship) • Former Employee
Mountain View, California, United States
April 18, 2025
Pros: Great perks like free food.
Cons: A big company, which can slow things down.

LinkedIn Interview Questions

Binary Tree Upside Down

Transform a binary tree so that the original left-most leaf becomes the new root. The original root becomes a left child, and the original right child becomes the right child of the original root's parent.

Insert Delete GetRandom O(1)

Design a data structure that supports insertion, deletion, and random element retrieval, all in constant time on average. You'll need to handle edge cases carefully to achieve O(1) complexity.

ArraysArraysDynamic Programming

Nested List Weight Sum II

You're given a nested list of integers where each integer has a depth. Calculate the weighted sum of all integers, where the weight is the depth of the integer from the bottom of the nested structure.

ArraysRecursion

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