Software Engineer Coding & Algorithms Interview Questions

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Waymo
Medium
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Serialize Expression Tree Minimizing Parentheses

This question evaluates proficiency with binary expression trees, operator precedence and associativity, and the ability to serialize an abstract synt...

Coding & Algorithms
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65 people solved
Feb 25, 2026
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Meta
Medium
Software Engineer

Solve sliding window and tree BFS

Solve sliding window and tree BFS Solve a typical medium-level sliding-window problem (e.g., longest substring without repeating characters). LeetCode...

Coding & Algorithms
5
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51 people solved
Aug 4, 2025
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OpenAI
Medium
Software Engineer

Implement persistent key-value store

Question Design and implement an in-memory key-value store supporting set(key, value), get(key), shutdown() that flushes all data as bytes to a medium...

Coding & Algorithms
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299 people solved
Aug 4, 2025
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Instacart
Medium
Software Engineer

Solve bank, password, expression algorithm tasks

Solve bank, password, expression algorithm tasks Implement a banking system that supports four specified operations within 90 minutes. Implement a pas...

Coding & Algorithms
6
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100 people solved
Aug 4, 2025
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Airtable
Medium
Software Engineer

Implement spreadsheet undo/redo operations

Problem Design a data structure that simulates Undo/Redo for a simplified spreadsheet editor. A user performs a sequence of operations on cells. Each ...

Coding & Algorithms
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435 people solved
Nov 4, 2025
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OpenAI
Medium
Software Engineer Locked

Implement Time-Aware GPU Credit Ledger

This question evaluates the ability to design efficient data structures and algorithms for time-aware resource accounting, including handling overlapp...

Coding & Algorithms
5
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63 people solved
Feb 23, 2026
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Anthropic
Medium
Software Engineer

Detect duplicate files by content

Detect duplicate files by content in a filesystem. Given access to a directory tree, return groups of file paths that have identical byte content. Min...

Coding & Algorithms
12
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188 people solved
Aug 1, 2025
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Amazon
Medium
Software Engineer

Solve string partition and equal-sum package problems

Solve string partition and equal-sum package problems 1) Given a string itemCategories (lowercase English letters) and an integer k (0 ≤ k ≤ 26), coun...

Coding & Algorithms
2
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44 people solved
Aug 1, 2025
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Meta
Medium
Software Engineer

Solve linked list, top-K, and string reduction

Solve linked list, top-K, and string reduction Solve the following algorithmic tasks: 1) Given a singly linked list, return the k-th node from the end...

Coding & Algorithms
5
0
39 people solved
Jul 31, 2025
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Applied Intuition
Medium
Software Engineer

Design duplicate-file detection using size

You are given a large POSIX-like filesystem containing millions of files across nested directories. Design an algorithm to find groups of duplicate fi...

Coding & Algorithms
10
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78 people solved
Jul 31, 2025
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Current
Medium
Software Engineer

Solve transaction aggregation and search tasks

Solve transaction aggregation and search tasks Complete the following coding tasks: (a) Given a list of transactions, each with userId and amount (cre...

Coding & Algorithms
5
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90 people solved
Jul 31, 2025
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Ambience Healthcare
Medium
Software Engineer

Design a least-recently-used cache

Design a least-recently-used cache Design and implement a least-recently-used (LRU) cache with a fixed capacity. Support get(key) -> value and put(key...

Coding & Algorithms
11
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98 people solved
Jul 31, 2025
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LinkedIn
Medium
Software Engineer

Analyze time and space complexity

Analyze time and space complexity For any algorithm you implement, analyze its time and space complexity using Big-O notation. Derive and justify the ...

Coding & Algorithms
5
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61 people solved
Jul 31, 2025
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Coinbase
Medium
Software Engineer

Compute prices, distances, and Top-K for orders

Compute prices, distances, and Top-K for orders Build functions for a food‑delivery analytics module. Data: - Restaurants: id, (x, y) location, menu m...

Coding & Algorithms
13
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100 people solved
Jul 31, 2025
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Microsoft
Medium
Software Engineer Locked

Implement Matrix Move and Logger

This question evaluates array manipulation and in-place algorithm design for handling overlapping submatrix moves, along with data-structure and time-...

Coding & Algorithms
4
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42 people solved
Feb 22, 2026
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Ixl
Hard
Software EngineerNew Grad Locked

Maintain a Stream Median

This question evaluates the ability to design and implement efficient online data structures and algorithms for maintaining dynamic order statistics a...

Coding & Algorithms
3
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24 people solved
Feb 22, 2026
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Microsoft
Medium
Software Engineer Locked

Implement Calendar, Tokenizer, and Meeting Optimizer

This question evaluates competencies in interval scheduling and overlap detection, custom string tokenization and parsing rules, and combinatorial opt...

Coding & Algorithms
4
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77 people solved
Feb 22, 2026
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Mavenclinic
Medium
Software Engineer Locked

Solve two interview coding problems

This question evaluates graph traversal and pathfinding with weighted edge composition for currency conversion reachability, and sequence partitioning...

Coding & Algorithms
3
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35 people solved
Feb 22, 2026
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Dropbox
Medium
Software Engineer

Implement feedback for word guessing game

You are implementing the core logic for a simple word-guessing game. There is: - A dictionary of valid words: a list of distinct lowercase strings, al...

Coding & Algorithms
6
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117 people solved
Nov 1, 2025
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Meta
Medium
Software Engineer

Solve LeetCode stack and tree problems

Question LeetCode 1249. Minimum Remove to Make Valid Parentheses LeetCode 863. All Nodes Distance K in Binary Tree https://leetcode.com/problems/minim...

Coding & Algorithms
16
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50 people solved
Jul 29, 2025

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