A LinkedIn mock interview on Devana is a voice interview with an AI interviewer on one of 34 LinkedIn-style questions from Devana's bank: 12 coding, 8 system design, 8 technical deep dives and 6 behavioral. Your code runs, the interviewer asks follow-ups, and you get a score out of 100. Company question sets are on the Free plan. Devana is not affiliated with LinkedIn, and these are not leaked or confirmed LinkedIn questions.
For the stages and their sources, read the LinkedIn interview process.
What the LinkedIn software engineer interview looks like
LinkedIn's Engineering careers page says its process typically includes an introductory conversation with an engineering recruiter and a technical interview, followed by interviews with a few LinkedIn engineers and leaders. Those may explore communication, coding, craftsmanship, engineering design or architecture, and leadership skills, among others. Its How We Hire page adds that each interview focuses on a different skill area, that every interviewer takes notes to share with the hiring team, and that a decision may take several weeks.
LinkedIn also publishes rules on AI: do not use it in live interviews unless the recruiting team has said in advance that it is part of the format, and use it in an assessment only when explicitly permitted. Using AI to practice mock interviews, it says, is encouraged.
The full guide, with the sources, is the LinkedIn software engineer interview process.
What Devana practices for LinkedIn
Devana's LinkedIn set has 34 questions, 18 of them rated hard. The topics that come up most are Scalability, Machine Learning, Systems Design and Caching. They are Devana's own questions, written to reflect what LinkedIn and its candidates have said publicly about its interviews. Start any of these as a mock interview:
| Round type | Questions | Examples (start a mock interview) |
|---|---|---|
| Coding | 12 | |
| System design | 8 | |
| Technical deep dives | 8 | |
| Behavioral | 6 |
Counted from Devana's question bank. Technical deep dives run as a system design round. Devana is not affiliated with LinkedIn.
How to practice for LinkedIn
- Get comfortable with the graph. The coding set includes degrees of separation between members, people you may know and the shortest introduction path. Explain your traversal out loud and say what changes at LinkedIn's scale.
- Explain fan-out and ranking. The designs include the member graph service and feed delivery, and a technical question asks about fanning out to a member with a million followers. Say where you would precompute and why.
- Know what a log can guarantee. The set includes designing a distributed commit log, partitioning a stream by key with ordering, and what a message queue can and cannot guarantee.
- Practice being clear. Communication is first on LinkedIn's list. The behavioral set asks about explaining something technical to a non-technical audience, working with a team you depend on, and taking over someone else's system.
How to set up a LinkedIn mock interview
- Open the LinkedIn set. The "Start a free LinkedIn mock interview" button opens Devana's question bank filtered to LinkedIn.
- Choose the round. Filter by type: coding, system design, technical deep dive or behavioral. A technical deep dive runs as a system design round, with a whiteboard.
- Choose the level. Filter by difficulty: the company sets are rated medium or hard. 18 of the 34 LinkedIn questions are rated hard. You can also filter by topic.
- Start it. Press "Practice this question" and the voice interview starts on that question. Signed out, you are asked to sign in first; the Free plan needs no card.
- Role and style. A question from a company set uses your saved interviewer style and coding language from Settings. To choose your role, such as frontend or backend, and run a full two-problem round, start a standard interview from Practice instead; that setup cannot be pointed at one company.
How a LinkedIn mock interview runs on Devana
Pick a question from the LinkedIn set and you talk it through with Josh, Devana's AI interviewer, for up to 30 minutes on a paid plan (45 for a design question) or 20 on the Free plan. In a coding question your code runs in Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java or C++; a design question has a whiteboard the interviewer reads; a behavioral question gets follow-ups about what you personally did. Each session ends with a score out of 100 on that round's rubric and a list of what raised and lowered it. For a full-length round with two problems, start a standard mock interview from Practice instead: up to 60 minutes on a paid plan, though you cannot choose the company. The mock interviews by round page shows each round type.
Guides to study first
- Graphs, for degrees of connection
- Heaps, for ranking the top results
- Message queues and async work, for streams and commit logs
- Caching, for profiles that rarely change
- Leadership and influence, for working with a team you depend on
- Ownership, for taking over someone else's system
Devana is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by LinkedIn. The questions are Devana's own and are not leaked or confirmed LinkedIn interview questions.
Frequently asked questions
Are Devana's LinkedIn questions real LinkedIn interview questions?
No. Devana's 34 LinkedIn questions are its own, written to reflect what LinkedIn and its candidates have said publicly about its interviews. They are not leaked or confirmed LinkedIn questions, and Devana is not affiliated with LinkedIn.
Can I do a LinkedIn mock interview for free?
Yes. Company question sets are on Devana's Free plan, which includes 3 mock interviews a month of up to 20 minutes each, on any of the 34 LinkedIn questions. On the Sprint Pass or Pro, a single question runs up to 30 minutes, or 45 for a system design question.
What skills do LinkedIn's engineering interviews cover?
LinkedIn's Engineering careers page says interviews may explore communication, coding, craftsmanship, engineering design or architecture, and leadership skills, among others. Its How We Hire page says each interview focuses on a different skill area and that every interviewer takes notes to share with the hiring team.