Software Engineer Coding & Algorithms Interview Questions

Practice 2,743 real Coding & Algorithms interview questions for Software Engineer roles. From companies including Meta, Amazon, Google, Uber, Microsoft.

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Google
Hard
Software Engineer

Delete a Node From a Search Tree

Given the root of a binary search tree and an integer key, delete the node whose value equals key if it exists. Return the possibly new root while pre...

Coding & Algorithms
7
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48 people solved
Apr 29, 2025
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TikTok
Medium
Software Engineer

Find k-th largest element in array

You are given an unsorted array of integers nums and a positive integer k. Design an efficient algorithm to find the k-th largest element in the array...

Coding & Algorithms
5
0
44 people solved
Oct 27, 2025
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Snapchat
Medium
Software Engineer Locked

Compute maximum perimeter among islands

This question evaluates a candidate's proficiency with grid traversal, connected-component identification, and perimeter computation in binary matrice...

Coding & Algorithms
4
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46 people solved
Oct 21, 2025
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Nash AI
Medium
Software Engineer Locked

Implement Minesweeper click-to-reveal expansion

This question evaluates a candidate's ability to implement grid-based data structures, state management, and flood-fill style expansion logic for Mine...

Coding & Algorithms
2
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42 people solved
Oct 21, 2025
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Meta
Medium
Software Engineer

Find shortest substring with N unique characters

You are given a string s and an integer n. Find the shortest contiguous substring of s that contains exactly n distinct characters. If there is no suc...

Coding & Algorithms
3
0
40 people solved
Oct 21, 2025
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Rippling
Easy
Software Engineer AI Locked

Build an Expense Policy Rule Engine

This question evaluates implementing rule-evaluation logic, data modeling for expense records and rule representations, operator semantics, and design...

Coding & Algorithms
4
0
45 people solved
Apr 17, 2025
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Illumio
Medium
Software Engineer Locked

Count Regions in a Binary Grid

This question evaluates understanding of grid-as-graph representations, identification of connected components, and competency in algorithmic problem-...

Coding & Algorithms
1
0
19 people solved
Oct 20, 2025
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Square
Hard
Software Engineer

Implement transaction network queries

Problem You are building a small in-memory library to track pairwise customer transactions and answer connectivity questions about who has transacted ...

Coding & Algorithms
5
0
60 people solved
Oct 19, 2025
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TikTok
Easy
Software Engineer

Find first and last index of target

You are given an integer array nums sorted in non-decreasing order and an integer target. Return a pair [left, right] where: - left is the index of th...

Coding & Algorithms
7
0
64 people solved
Oct 19, 2025
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Rippling
Medium
Software Engineer

Track article votes and last three flips

Problem Design an in-memory data structure for voting on articles. Users can vote on an article with either: - Thumbs up - Thumbs down - No vote (user...

Coding & Algorithms
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229 people solved
Oct 17, 2025
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Google
Easy
Software Engineer

Find largest subset sharing a common digit

You are given a list A of two-digit integers (each from 10 to 99). Two integers are said to “share a digit” if they have at least one digit in common ...

Coding & Algorithms
4
1
49 people solved
Oct 16, 2025
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Google
Easy
Software Engineer

Compute max coins with 3-step token moves

You are given a one-dimensional board with n positions represented by a string s of length n: - . = empty cell - T = token - C = coin You may move tok...

Coding & Algorithms
22
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152 people solved
Oct 16, 2025
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Bytedance
Medium
Software Engineer

Validate a bracket string

Given a string s containing only the characters '(', ')', '{', '}', '[', and ']', determine whether the input string is valid. A string is valid if: 1...

Coding & Algorithms
5
0
39 people solved
Oct 14, 2025
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Microsoft
Medium
Software Engineer

Build a time-based key-value store

Problem Design a data structure that stores multiple values for the same key at different timestamps, and can retrieve the most recent value as of a g...

Coding & Algorithms
7
0
70 people solved
Oct 14, 2025
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Verkada
Hard
Software Engineer

Implement WordGuess feedback scoring

WordGuess (Wordle-like) scoring Implement a function that scores a guess against a secret word of the same length. Scoring rules (per character) Retur...

Coding & Algorithms
9
0
67 people solved
Oct 13, 2025
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Intuit
Medium
Software Engineer

Find largest filename from ls -l output

You are given a multi-line string (via stdin) that represents the output of ls -l, with one entry per line. Each file line follows the typical ls -l f...

Coding & Algorithms
3
0
67 people solved
Oct 13, 2025
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Coreweave
Medium
Software EngineerSenior+

Implement web data fetch and storage tool

Problem You are asked to implement a small program that retrieves data from a remote web service protected by token-based authentication, parses the r...

Coding & Algorithms
18
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272 people solved
Oct 11, 2025
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Stripe
Medium
Software Engineer Locked

Implement Billing Coding Exercises

This question evaluates skills in billing and payment reconciliation, datetime normalization and comparison, subscription-based scheduling, API integr...

Coding & Algorithms
4
0
42 people solved
Oct 7, 2025
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TikTok
Easy
Software Engineer

Find start indices of anagram substrings

You are given two strings: - s: the text string - p: the pattern string Return a list of all starting indices i such that the substring s[i : i + len(...

Coding & Algorithms
3
0
45 people solved
Oct 7, 2025
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Bloomberg
Medium
Software Engineer

Implement anagram check and odd-even linked list

You are given two independent coding tasks. Task 1: Check if two strings are anagrams Implement a function that determines whether two given strings a...

Coding & Algorithms
9
0
77 people solved
Oct 6, 2025

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