Software Engineer Interview Questions
Practice 4,360 real Software Engineer interview questions for 2026 — real questions from actual interviews with detailed solutions to speed your interview preparation. This collection reflects what top tech firms like Meta, Amazon, Google, DoorDash, and TikTok typically evaluate: rigorous coding and algorithmic problem solving, increasing expectations for end-to-end system design (including GenAI/LLM design at some teams), clear complexity analysis, and reliable engineering judgment under constraints. Expect a multi-stage pipeline: recruiter screen, timed or asynchronous coding assessments, one-to-more live coding rounds focused on data structures and correctness, system-design conversations for mid and senior levels, and behavioral/hiring-manager interviews that probe ownership and collaboration. To prepare, prioritize patterned practice (timed mock interviews and implementation + optimization), learn scalable design frameworks, rehearse concise trade-off communication, and tailor examples to company signals like Amazon’s leadership lens or product/latency focus at delivery and media-driven teams. Consistent, feedback-driven practice that combines problem-solving speed, clean code, and measured design reasoning is the quickest path to offers.
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Find exit URL via BFS API calls
Question Design and implement a function that, given a starting URL "/", performs BFS or DFS by repeatedly sending HTTP GET requests of the form GET "...
Compare two string linked lists
Question Given two singly linked lists where each node stores one character as a string, determine whether the sequences of characters represented by ...
Calculate area, flush probability, egg drops
Question Given two quarter-circles inside a 1×1 square (centers at bottom-left and top-right corners), find the exact area of their overlapping region...
Find lowest common ancestor
Question LeetCode 236. Lowest Common Ancestor of a Binary Tree — Given a binary tree, find the lowest common ancestor (LCA) of two given nodes. Follow...
Detect shuffle-mode sequence
Question Given a playlist of distinct songs and two player modes—Random (each next song chosen independently and uniformly at random, with replacement...
Handle cards, islands, Trie, median
Question LeetCode 914. X of a Kind in a Deck of Cards LeetCode 694. Number of Distinct Islands LeetCode 208. Implement Trie (Prefix Tree) LeetCode 295...
Check Palindrome and Add Decimal Strings
Question LeetCode 266. Palindrome Permutation – Given a string, determine whether any permutation can form a palindrome. Follow-up: If a palindrome pe...
Implement thread-safe blocking queue
Question Design and implement a thread-safe bounded blocking queue that supports concurrent enqueue and dequeue operations using standard synchronizat...
Find most frequent log user
Question You are given a list of log entries in string format, where each entry contains a username and an access timestamp separated by a delimiter (...
Find names similar by one swap
Question LeetCode 859. Buddy Strings – Given a target string and a list of strings, return all list entries that can match the target by swapping at m...
Evaluate dependent variable expressions
Question Given a target variable name and a list of assignment strings of the form 'Ti = expression' where the expression is either a number, a single...
Count changed nodes in N-ary trees
Question Given two N-ary trees (old and new versions) where each node has a key (string), value (int), and list of children, compute how many nodes ar...
Determine equality after limited swaps
Question LeetCode 1790. Check if One String Swap Can Make Strings Equal Follow-up: Given two strings, determine if they can become anagrams of each ot...
Solve three LeetCode coding problems
Question LeetCode 1249. Minimum Remove to Make Valid Parentheses LeetCode 827. Making A Large Island LeetCode 199. Binary Tree Right Side View https:/...
Solve 4 LeetCode algorithm problems
Question LeetCode 636. Exclusive Time of Functions LeetCode 253. Meeting Rooms II LeetCode 314. Binary Tree Vertical Order Traversal LeetCode 215. Kth...
Solve island connectivity and string multiplication
Question Given N distinct islands (e.g., a, b, c…) and a list of existing undirected paths between them, compute the minimum number of additional path...
Design Connect-N winner detector
Question Design a data structure for the Connect-N game: pieces are dropped into a column (occupying the lowest empty cell). Implement move(column, pl...
Randomly partition array into k segments
Question Given a list of integers and an integer k representing the number of segments, write a function that randomly partitions the list into k non-...
Compute minimum passes over permutation
Question You are given an array shelf representing a permutation of the integers 1..n. Starting with target = 1, you repeatedly scan the array left-to...
Convert bitmap into ASCII characters
Question Given an array/string of 0-1 bits representing a bitmap font, write code to render each character as a grid using '.' for 0 and '#' for 1, an...