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Software Engineer Interview Questions

Software Engineer Interview Questions

Practice 4,824 real software engineer interview questions for 2026. Covers top employers like Google, Amazon, OpenAI, and Uber — real questions from actual onsites with detailed solutions — and is built for focused interview preparation. This collection emphasizes coding and algorithms first, then system design, performance, and role-specific domains so you can train the exact skills interviewers test. What’s distinctive: coding rounds still dominate at every company, Google often emphasizes algorithms and distributed-systems thinking, Amazon commonly probes scalable-services design and operational tradeoffs, OpenAI leans toward ML systems, model deployment and inference-scaling problems, and Uber typically asks real-time routing, geospatial and consistency challenges. Expect live coding, pair-programming, and whiteboard/system-design sketches. To prepare efficiently, drill medium-to-hard algorithm problems with time limits, practice end-to-end system design sketches focused on capacity and reliability, and rehearse concise behavioral stories that show ownership and impact.

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_The_TaNk_

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ChrisSenior SWE, LinkedIn

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sleepy33

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nuggetlord

"I've used LC, Glassdoor, and random Discords. Nothing comes close to the accuracy here. The questions are actually current — that's what got me. Felt like I had a cheat sheet during the interview."

Carlos testimonial
CarlosFull Stack, Shopify

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boba.tea.vibes

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AndySWE-II, Google

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couchpotato99 testimonial
couchpotato99

"Literally just signed a $600k offer. I only had 2 weeks to prep, so I focused entirely on the company-tagged lists here. If you're targeting L5+, don't overthink it."

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ShrutiData Engineer, Salesforce

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midnightramen testimonial
midnightramen

"I honestly don't know how you guys gather so many real interview questions. It's almost scary. I walked into my Amazon loop and recognized 3 out of 4 problems from your database."

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BiancaFrontend Eng, Figma

"Discovered PracHub 10 days before my interview. By day 5, I stopped being nervous. By interview day, I was actually excited to show what I knew."

tambrahm007 testimonial
tambrahm007

"I recently cleared Uber interviews (strong hire in the design round) and all the questions were present in prachub."

toa testimonial
toa

"The search is what sold me. I typed in a really niche DP problem I got asked last year and it actually came up, full breakdown and everything. These guys are clearly updating it constantly."

PLTCHK testimonial
PLTCHK

"I got asked a hardcore MCM DP question and I saw it on PracHub as well. Solved that question in 5 minutes. Without PracHub I doubt I could solve it in 5 hours. Though somehow didn't get hired, perhaps I guess I solved it too fast? /s"

_The_TaNk_ testimonial
_The_TaNk_

"Believe me i'm a student here jn US. Recently interviewed for MSFT. They asked me exact question from PracHub. I saw it the night before and ignored it cause why waste time on random sites. I legit wanna go back and redo this whole thing if I had chance. Not saying will work for everyone but there is certainly some merit to that website. And i'm gonna use it in future prep from now on like lc tagged"

Chris testimonial
ChrisSenior SWE, LinkedIn

"10 years of experience but never worked at a top company. PracHub's senior-level questions helped me break into FAANG at 35. Age is just a number."

sleepy33 testimonial
sleepy33

"I was skeptical about the 'real questions' claim, so I put it to the test. I searched for the exact question I got grilled on at my last Meta onsite... and it was right there. Word for word."

Jake testimonial
JakeSenior ML Engineer, Lyft

"Got a Google recruiter call on Monday, interview on Friday. Crammed PracHub for 4 days. Passed every round. This platform is a miracle worker."

nuggetlord testimonial
nuggetlord

"I've used LC, Glassdoor, and random Discords. Nothing comes close to the accuracy here. The questions are actually current — that's what got me. Felt like I had a cheat sheet during the interview."

Carlos testimonial
CarlosFull Stack, Shopify

"The solution quality is insane. It covers approach, edge cases, time complexity, follow-ups. Nothing else comes close."

boba.tea.vibes testimonial
boba.tea.vibes

"Legit the only resource you need. TC went from 180k -> 350k. Just memorize the top 50 for your target company and you're golden."

Andy testimonial
AndySWE-II, Google

"PracHub Premium for one month cost me the price of two coffees a week. It landed me a $280K+ starting offer."

couchpotato99 testimonial
couchpotato99

"Literally just signed a $600k offer. I only had 2 weeks to prep, so I focused entirely on the company-tagged lists here. If you're targeting L5+, don't overthink it."

Shruti testimonial
ShrutiData Engineer, Salesforce

"Coaches and bootcamp prep courses cost around $200-300 but PracHub Premium is actually less than a Netflix subscription. And it landed me a $178K offer."

midnightramen testimonial
midnightramen

"I honestly don't know how you guys gather so many real interview questions. It's almost scary. I walked into my Amazon loop and recognized 3 out of 4 problems from your database."

Bianca testimonial
BiancaFrontend Eng, Figma

"Discovered PracHub 10 days before my interview. By day 5, I stopped being nervous. By interview day, I was actually excited to show what I knew."

tambrahm007 testimonial
tambrahm007

"I recently cleared Uber interviews (strong hire in the design round) and all the questions were present in prachub."

toa testimonial
toa

"The search is what sold me. I typed in a really niche DP problem I got asked last year and it actually came up, full breakdown and everything. These guys are clearly updating it constantly."

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Jane Street logo
Jane Street
Easy
Software Engineer

Stack Machine Interpreter with Typed Int and String Values

You are building an interpreter for a simple stack machine. The machine has a single stack, and every value on the stack is one of exactly two primiti...

Coding & Algorithms
0
0
7 people solved
Apr 28, 2022
Reddit logo
Reddit
Medium
Software EngineerSenior+

Defend a Schema Decision Through a Real Technical Challenge

Defend a Schema Decision Through a Real Technical Challenge Choose a system you worked on where the data model materially affected correctness, scalab...

Behavioral & Leadership
0
0
0 people solved
Jul 8, 2026
Apple logo
Apple
Medium
Software Engineer

Solve Subset Sum And Return All Matching Subsets

Given an array of non-negative integers and a target, first determine whether any subset sums to the target using dynamic programming with O(target) s...

Coding & Algorithms
0
0
7 people solved
Jul 6, 2026
Hudson River Trading logo
Hudson River Trading
Medium
Software Engineer

Count Length-3 Chat Substrings with a Vowel

You are developing an automatic moderation system for a chat application that detects simple linguistic patterns. Given a string chatMessage, count ho...

Coding & Algorithms
0
0
4 people solved
Jul 2, 2026
Chicago logo
Chicago
Medium
Software Engineer

Show Teamwork and Drive Through Difficult Engineering Situations

Show Teamwork and Drive Through Difficult Engineering Situations Prepare two evidence-based examples from your experience. In the first, a peer asked ...

Behavioral & Leadership
0
0
0 people solved
Jul 1, 2026
Salesforce logo
Salesforce
Medium
Software Engineer

Find a Valid Task Execution Order with Dependencies

You are building the task scheduler for a CI/build system. There are n build tasks labeled from 0 to n - 1. Some tasks cannot start until certain othe...

Coding & Algorithms
0
0
6 people solved
Jun 30, 2026
Apple logo
Apple
Medium
Software Engineer

Vertical Order Traversal of a Binary Tree

Vertical Order Traversal of a Binary Tree You are given the root of a binary tree. Return the vertical order traversal of its nodes' values — that is,...

Coding & Algorithms
0
0
14 people solved
Jun 30, 2026
Intuit logo
Intuit
Medium
Software EngineerSenior+

Increment a Digit-Array Integer by One

Increment a Digit-Array Integer by One You are given a non-empty array digits in which each element is a single decimal digit (0-9). The array represe...

Coding & Algorithms
0
0
2 people solved
Jun 30, 2026
Uber logo
Uber
Medium
Software EngineerSenior+

Group Anagrams

Group Anagrams Given an array of strings words, group together all strings that are anagrams of one another and return the groups. Two strings are ana...

Coding & Algorithms
0
0
8 people solved
Jun 28, 2026
Uber logo
Uber
Medium
Software EngineerSenior+

Quadtree for 2D Geospatial Points

Quadtree for 2D Geospatial Points Design and implement a point quadtree that stores geographic locations on a 2D plane and supports efficient axis-ali...

Coding & Algorithms
0
0
5 people solved
Jun 28, 2026
Bytedance logo
Bytedance
Medium
Software Engineer

Elements Occurring More Than n/3 Times in a Sorted Array

You are given a sorted (non-decreasing) integer array nums of length n, where n >= 3. Return every distinct value that occurs strictly more than n / 3...

Coding & Algorithms
1
0
8 people solved
Jun 24, 2026
Wells Fargo logo
Wells Fargo
Medium
Software EngineerSenior+

Highest Salary Using Java Streams

Highest Salary Using Java Streams You are given a list of Employee objects. Each Employee is a plain Java object (POJO) with the following fields: `ja...

Coding & Algorithms
0
0
10 people solved
Jun 24, 2026
Anthropic logo
Anthropic
Medium
Software Engineer AI

Maximum-Length Unique-Character Subset

Maximum-Length Unique-Character Subset You are given a list of strings. Choose a subset of them and concatenate the chosen strings; the concatenation ...

Coding & Algorithms
0
0
6 people solved
Jun 23, 2026
Uber logo
Uber
Medium
Software Engineer

Deep Equality of Two Records

Deep Equality of Two Records You are given two records (think of them as instances of a struct / class / nested object). Write a function that decides...

Coding & Algorithms
0
0
9 people solved
Jun 23, 2026
LinkedIn logo
LinkedIn
Medium
Software Engineer

Longest Run of Ones After One Flip

Longest Run of Ones After One Flip You are given a binary array nums, where every element is either 0 or 1. You may flip at most one 0 to a 1 (you are...

Coding & Algorithms
0
0
7 people solved
Jun 23, 2026
Google logo
Google
Easy
Software Engineer

Find Common Free Time Slots Across Calendars

Find Common Free Time Slots Across Calendars You are building a scheduling assistant on top of a shared calendar product. Each participant has a list ...

Coding & Algorithms
1
1
12 people solved
Jun 22, 2026
Applied logo
Applied
Medium
Software Engineer

Multi-Agent Collision Simulator (Unicycle Kinematics)

Multi-Agent Collision Simulator (Unicycle Kinematics) You are given $N$ agents moving in a 2D plane. Each agent is a disk of fixed radius and moves ac...

Coding & Algorithms
0
0
4 people solved
Jun 21, 2026
Bytedance logo
Bytedance
Hard
Software Engineer Locked

Course Schedule Feasibility

This question tests graph traversal skills and the ability to detect cycles in a directed graph, a core competency in algorithm interviews. It falls u...

Coding & Algorithms
0
0
6 people solved
Jun 20, 2026
Meta logo
Meta
Medium
Software Engineer Locked

Palindrome After Deleting at Most One Character

This question evaluates a candidate's ability to reason about two-pointer string traversal and palindrome verification under a single edit constraint....

Coding & Algorithms
0
0
11 people solved
Jun 20, 2026
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Antra
Medium
Software Engineer Locked

Character Frequency Count in a String

This question tests a candidate's practical ability to traverse strings and use hash-based data structures for frequency counting while preserving ins...

Coding & Algorithms
0
0
4 people solved
Jun 20, 2026
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Frequently Asked Questions

How difficult are Software Engineer interview questions at top tech companies?
Top tech-company Software Engineer interview questions are challenging but predictable. Expect a range: entry-level screens focus on easy to medium algorithmic problems and core data structures, mid-level rounds push medium to hard problems plus design, and senior interviews center on large-system architecture, tradeoffs, and expected impact. Coding rounds usually require clear, correct, and reasonably optimized solutions under time pressure. Behavioral and ownership questions probe product judgment and collaboration. Companies like Meta, Google, Amazon, and OpenAI maintain high standards, so strong algorithmic fluency, system-thinking, and communication are required to clear screening and onsite loops.
What is a typical Software Engineer interview process and where are these roles most commonly hiring heavily right now?
A typical loop starts with a recruiter screen within a week, then one or two timed online or phone coding screens in the next 1–2 weeks. Successful candidates move to technical onsite rounds or virtual loops that include two to four interviews covering coding, system design, and behavioral questions across 2–4 weeks. Senior roles add deep design and leadership interviews and some companies use take-home projects. Right now, Meta, Amazon, Google, and OpenAI are hiring Software Engineers heavily; expect Meta questions to emphasize graph and feed-scaling themes, Amazon on distributed throughput and reliability, Google on algorithmic performance, and OpenAI on inference and API infrastructure.
How should I structure my interview preparation timeline for Software Engineer roles?
A 6–8 week plan balances depth and repetition. Weeks 1–2: reinforce language fundamentals, data structures, and complexity reasoning. Weeks 3–4: practice timed coding problems daily from medium-to-hard sets and do mock interviews. Week 5: focus system design basics, capacity planning, and tradeoffs using end-to-end case studies. Week 6: polish behavioral stories using STAR format and run full-length mock loops. Final weeks: company-specific tuning, a few targeted practice sessions on themes like graphs or distributed systems, and light review. Integrate feedback cycles and 2–3 real mock interviews per week for confidence.
What key subtopics should I master for Software Engineer interview questions?
Core algorithm topics include arrays, strings, trees, graphs, dynamic programming, hashing, and complexity analysis. For mid-to-senior roles, add concurrency, caching strategies, database schemas, CAP tradeoffs, and performance tuning. System design covers APIs, data modeling, partitioning, consistency, load balancing, and monitoring. Testing, clean code, and debugging are evaluated during coding rounds. Company-specific recurring themes to prioritize are graph and feed-scaling problems for Meta, distributed systems and cost-throughput tradeoffs for Amazon, performance at scale for Google, and inference/API platform design for OpenAI. Practice end-to-end problems that combine algorithms and systems thinking.
What are standout tips and common pitfalls to avoid in Software Engineer interviews?
Standout tips: clarify requirements and constraints before coding, narrate your thought process, write clean pseudocode then production-ready code, test edge cases aloud, and discuss tradeoffs in design questions. Use structured STAR stories for behavioral rounds and quantify impact. Common pitfalls: jumping into code without confirming expectations, ignoring time or memory constraints, failing to consider scalability and failure modes in design questions, and underselling ownership or impact. Avoid rote memorization of solutions; interviewers value reasoning and adaptability. Finally, practice mock interviews under timed conditions and incorporate iterative feedback to close weak spots.

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