Figma Interview Questions

Figma Interview Questions

Practice 31 real interview questions from Figma. Covers Behavioral & Leadership, Coding & Algorithms, System Design, Analytics & Experimentation. For roles including Software Engineer, Data Scientist, Data Engineer, Machine Learning Engineer.

31 Questions 1 Company07.21.2026
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Software Engineer

Convert Leveled Rich-Text Tokens into Nested Lists

Convert Leveled Rich-Text Tokens into Nested Lists Problem Implement read_rich_text(tokens). Each token is a pair (level, text) in document order, whe...

Coding & Algorithms
7
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56 people solved
Jul 21, 2026
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Figma
Medium
Software Engineer

Design Permission-Aware Retrieval for Design Files

Design Permission-Aware Retrieval for Design Files Design a search system for a design-editing agent. Users and agents issue short queries, typically ...

System Design
2
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41 people solved
Jul 21, 2026
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Medium
Software Engineer

Design an Evaluation Platform for a Design-Editing Agent

Design an Evaluation Platform for a Design-Editing Agent A design application includes an agent that edits a user's document from natural-language ins...

ML System Design
2
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25 people solved
Jul 21, 2026
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Figma
Medium
Software Engineer

Validate a Balanced INDENT and DEDENT Token Stream

Validate a Balanced INDENT and DEDENT Token Stream Problem A tokenizer has already converted a document into a sequence of tokens. Two token values ha...

Coding & Algorithms
1
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19 people solved
Jul 21, 2026
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Medium
Software Engineer

Design Comments for a Collaborative Whiteboard

Design Comments for a Collaborative Whiteboard Design comments for a real-time collaborative whiteboard. The product details below are practice assump...

System Design
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128 people solved
Jul 1, 2026
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Medium
Software Engineer

Design Trending Collaborative Files

Design Trending Collaborative Files Design a service that ranks currently trending collaborative files. Use the following scale and product rules as p...

System Design
11
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79 people solved
Jul 1, 2026
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Medium
Data Scientist

Clarify an Ambiguous Product Question and Define a Metric

A product partner asks, “Is this feature successful?” The request does not specify the user population, behavior, comparison, or decision. Walk throug...

Analytics & Experimentation
2
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38 people solved
Jul 14, 2026
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Medium
Data Scientist

Present a Relevant Data Science Project to a Hiring Manager

Choose one data-science project that is relevant to the role and walk a hiring manager through it. Explain the problem, your role, the analytical appr...

Behavioral & Leadership
2
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22 people solved
Jul 14, 2026
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Figma
Medium
Software Engineer

Leadership and Project Deep-Dive Interview

Leadership and Project Deep-Dive Interview Prepare evidence-based responses to the leadership themes below and a deep dive on one recent project. Use ...

Behavioral & Leadership
7
0
56 people solved
Jul 1, 2026
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Medium
Data Scientist

Handle Cross-Functional Pushback on an Analysis

Tell me about a time a cross-functional partner pushed back on your analysis, metric, or recommendation. How did you understand the disagreement, test...

Behavioral & Leadership
2
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30 people solved
Jul 14, 2026
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Medium
Software Engineer

Design Real-Time Collaborative Comments

Design a real-time commenting system for a collaborative canvas or document. Users should see new comments quickly, receive updates on threads, and re...

System Design
7
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79 people solved
Apr 9, 2026
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Figma
Medium
Software Engineer

Design an Async Job Scheduler

Design an asynchronous job scheduler service. The service must support two job types: 1. Immediate jobs: submitted jobs that should run as soon as pos...

System Design
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1
259 people solved
Jan 10, 2026
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Figma
Hard
Data Scientist Locked

How would you measure product success?

This question evaluates a data scientist's ability to design and interpret product analytics for a subscription-based, seat-licensed collaborative pro...

Analytics & Experimentation
9
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124 people solved
Apr 9, 2026
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Machine Learning Engineer Locked

Design Feed Ranking and HTML Generation

This question evaluates the ability to design end-to-end machine learning systems for personalized feed ranking and for natural-language-to-HTML gener...

ML System Design
9
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61 people solved
Mar 25, 2026
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Figma
Hard
Software Engineer

Design a trending-articles platform

Design a Near Real-Time Trending-Articles Platform Design the backend that surfaces trending articles in near real time for a large-scale consumer pro...

System Design
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351 people solved
Sep 6, 2025
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Figma
Hard
Data Scientist

Describe your most and least engaging work

You are interviewing for a Data Scientist role. The hiring manager asks: What kinds of work have been the most engaging for you, and what kinds have b...

Behavioral & Leadership
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166 people solved
Apr 9, 2026
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Figma
Medium
Data Engineer

Write SQL for first share and closest collaborator

You are given event data about users viewing design files. Assume the following tables: - files(file_id, creator_id) - creator_id is a VARCHAR user ...

Coding & Algorithms
34
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288 people solved
Jan 20, 2026
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Figma
Hard
Software Engineer

Design and operate a monolith on Kubernetes

Design and Operate a Monolith on Kubernetes Context You are joining an infrastructure team. The backend is a single monolithic service. The company is...

System Design
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229 people solved
Sep 6, 2025
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Figma
Medium
Software Engineer

Answer common behavioral questions

Behavioral Interview: STAR Responses for a Technical Screen (Software Engineer) You are preparing for a technical screen that includes behavioral and ...

Behavioral & Leadership
25
0
179 people solved
Sep 6, 2025
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Figma
Medium
Software Engineer

Design document layer with undo/redo

Design a document layer that supports applying edits and undo/redo. Implement apply(op) to mutate the document, undo() to revert the most recent commi...

Coding & Algorithms
23
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317 people solved
Sep 6, 2025

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