I just completed the interview loop for this position. It went as expected after reading the related posts here but wanted to share in case others find it useful. Tech screen to decide if you do the full round of virtual on-site. This was 2 questions we worked through on coderpad. Valid triangle and 3 sum leetcode questions. The interviewer didn’t say anything after presenting each questions until I solved the problems he would just nod as I asked questions and tried to engage him. I did well solving the problems but was surprised I passed this because of how awkward it went. On-site: Hiring manager: usual questions about my experience and resume. Got the sense this person was overwhelmed or under qualified because he didn’t project any confidence he knew how identify good engineers System design: white board session building the LinkedIn feed. Went well but the interviewer was pompous and struggled with English. Craftsmanship: met with 2 engineers and discussed how I work as an engineer. This was really fun. Think of it as talking shop with a couple engineers. This was my favorite session and these engineers were awesome. Another coderpad session: of all the awkward session at LinkedIn this was the worst. There was an EM and a junior engineer. The problem was build a parsers to parse a json string into json model objects. These 2 had no clue how to interview and I could tell they were reading from a script the entire time and were really nervous. I ended coming up with a good solution but neither of them understood it because it wasn’t on their script. Final session was building a simple app in Xcode which was really easy but a bit of a race against time. I got this done without issue and these 2 interviewers were competent. The recruiter called 2 days later and said they would make an offer if I would accept being down leveled. I passed. After I saw the quality of engineers and EMs it made it obvious I wasn’t interested. I saw this pattern of down leveling as I researched LinkedIn.