Say you get to the last stage of an interview process and, instead of one more whiteboard, the company pays you to come and work with the team for a few days. On real work, with their internal tools, at a day rate they told you up front.
That is how Linear hires. For every role.
Linear makes the issue tracker a lot of engineering teams run on. In April it published a plain description of its own hiring process (How we hire at Linear), and the last stage reads: "For all roles, the final stage is a paid work trial."
The work trial
From Linear's own post:
"A 2-5 day project designed to approximate the kind of work you'd actually do here."
"All work trials are paid. We communicate the daily rate in advance and are flexible on scheduling."
"You work with a small project team, get access to our internal tools, and deliver something real."
Afterwards, "each member of the project team submits feedback independently."
Before that come three to four interview conversations for most roles, and the whole thing usually runs "four to six weeks from first conversation to offer".
Two things about this are worth sitting with. A paid trial treats your time as worth money, which a typical interview loop does not. And it is a real ask: two to five days is hard to fit around a current job (Linear says it is flexible on scheduling, which helps). If you are interviewing at several places at once, plan for it early.
What is open
On October 6, 2026 we had 13 open roles on file for Linear:
| Area | Roles |
|---|---|
| Engineering (product, full stack, AI, design engineering) | 5 |
| Product and production design | 4 |
| Solutions engineering | 2 |
| Developer relations | 1 |
| Analytics engineering | 1 |
Four of thirteen are design roles, which is a high share for a software company.
The engineering stack is consistent: all four product and full stack engineering roles we have on file name TypeScript, Node, GraphQL, Postgres and Redis, three of them name React and MobX, and Electron and ProseMirror show up too. The AI product engineering role names the same core (TypeScript, Node, GraphQL, Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes).
Several of the senior and staff engineering roles have been on file since we started tracking Linear in late October 2025. That could mean a bar that is hard to clear, roles that are always open for the right person, or both. We cannot tell which from the outside.
Where you can work from
Linear describes itself as a "remote team, distributed across time zones", and 12 of the 13 roles are remote. But all 12 are remote within a region:
8 are North America only
1 is EU only
3 are open in North America and Europe, or their time zones
The one exception is a hybrid solutions engineering role in London. If you are outside North America and Europe, there is nothing open for you right now.
Pay
None of the 13 postings publish a salary range. Linear's process post says "we discuss compensation on the first recruiter call so neither side is surprised later", and "at the offer stage, we're direct about business performance and what your equity could realistically be worth."
So the number exists, you just get it on a call rather than in the posting. That is better than finding out at the offer, and worse than seeing it before you apply. (If published ranges matter to you, LaunchDarkly, one of our recent spotlights, is the opposite case: it publishes pay on 26 of its 28 open roles.)
Who this is for
If you write TypeScript and React, care a lot about product quality, and live in North America or Europe, Linear is worth a serious look. Go in knowing the last stage is several days of real work, paid, with the people you would be working with. If that sounds like a better test of you than another algorithm interview, it probably is.
You can see the open roles and the stack on Linear's page on Remoet, and star it if you want its next roles to come to you.
What we could not check
The work trial details come from Linear's own post, dated April 28, 2026. We have not been through the process ourselves, and the post does not publish the day rate. Role counts and locations are from our data on October 6, 2026. If you have done a Linear work trial and want to tell us how it went, we would love to hear it in Discord.
