Software Engineer Software Engineering Fundamentals Interview Questions
Practice 284 real Software Engineering Fundamentals interview questions for Software Engineer roles. From companies including Amazon, Bitkernel, Apple, Google, Uber.
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Build Resilient Aggregation and Debug Routing
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Design a task management system with TTL
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Debug and harden a driver-selection component
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Review a PR for thread-safe request handling
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Debug and extend a streaming chat app
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Apply operations efficiently using Command pattern
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Simulate bus boarding with priority and wheelchairs
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Compare arrays, linked lists, hash tables, trees
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Debug and mitigate a CPU spike incident
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Explain virtual machines and concurrency basics
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Model particle hits on a screen
A point source at (0, 0) emits particles toward an infinite vertical screen located at x = 1. For each particle, sample an angle theta uniformly from ...
Demonstrate effective AI-assisted coding workflow
In an interview where you are allowed to use an AI coding assistant, you are given a large scoped task (e.g., implementing a TCP chat server). The int...
Implement a rate limiter and a pub/sub API
You have two coding/design (low-level design) tasks. 1) Rate limiter Design and implement a rate limiter with an API like: - boolean allow(String clie...
Design an Extensible Python File Parser
In Python, design a pluggable file parsing framework that can process multiple file formats such as CSV, JSON, and XML. Requirements: - Expose a commo...
Design a Connect-Four-like board game
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Explain Out-of-Bounds Bugs and Infinite Loops
You are given a C or C++ code snippet that behaves incorrectly. The root cause is an out-of-bounds memory access, such as reading or writing past the ...
How to root-cause Wi‑Fi chip stops after 30 minutes
You are running automated tests on a Wi‑Fi chip. The chip transmits normally at the beginning, but after about 30 minutes it stops transmitting (no si...
Make tree iterators safe under concurrency
You have a binary tree and an inorder iterator implementation that maintains internal traversal state (e.g., a stack). Consider a multi-threaded progr...