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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Design a task system with assignments
This question evaluates data modeling, API/interface design, and system-design competencies—focusing on entity relationships (Task versus Assignment),...
Maximize revenue by choosing one query type
This question evaluates optimization and numerical reasoning skills, specifically selecting a single repetitive action to maximize aggregate revenue u...
Check if each recipe is a contiguous subsequence
This question evaluates proficiency in algorithmic sequence matching and contiguous subarray detection, encompassing array/string pattern matching and...
Implement power, reduce string, parse tree, debug maze
This multi-part question evaluates numerical algorithms (fast exponentiation), string-processing and reduction logic, recursive parsing and tree const...
Determine a one-step string transformation
Given two lowercase strings source and target, determine whether target can be obtained from source using at most one of the following operations, and...
Design set with O(1) random access
Design a data structure ("FancySet") that stores unique integers and supports the following operations, each in average O(1) time: - add(x): Insert va...
Build a Quadtree and Analyze a Graph
Solve the following two coding problems. 1. Build a quadtree from an image You are given an N x N matrix of integers representing an image, where N is...
Match people to questions using tags and priorities
This question evaluates competencies in bipartite matching and combinatorial optimization, along with practical data-structure design for scalable tag...
Maximize non-adjacent sum on an N-ary tree
You are given an N-ary tree (each node may have 0..k children). Each node contains an integer value (can be 0 or positive). You want to select a set o...
Implement cloud storage with quotas and compression
Problem Implement an in-memory cloud storage service that supports multiple users, per-user storage quotas, changing quotas with eviction, and file co...
Solve array duplicate flags and binary swaps
Problem 1: Flag duplicates on the left and right You are given an integer array nums of length n. For each index i, determine: 1. Left-duplicate: whet...
Compute courier pay and implement load balancing
Problem 1: Compute courier (delivery driver) pay You are given a sequence of delivery-related events for a courier during a day. Your task is to compu...
Find first non-repeating character index
You are given two separate coding tasks. Task 1: First Unique Character Given a string s (lowercase/ASCII letters), return the index of the first char...
Implement an LFU cache
Problem: LFU Cache Design and implement a Least Frequently Used (LFU) cache with a fixed capacity. The cache supports the following operations: - get(...
Merge overlapping time intervals
Problem You are given a list of closed intervals intervals, where each interval is [start, end] and start <= end. Merge all intervals that overlap and...
Find a special person using knows(a,b)
Problem You are given n people labeled 0 to n-1 at a party. You can call an API: - knows(a, b) -> bool: returns true if person a knows person b, other...
Compute party hours per town and city gaps
You are given (1) a region table describing a hierarchy of locations and (2) a list of party attendance time intervals (all timestamps occur within a ...
Count friend requests based on age rules
Problem You are given an array ages, where ages[i] is the age of the i-th person. A person of age A will send a friend request to a person of age B if...
Validate an extended tic-tac-toe state
Problem You are given a 3×3 tic-tac-toe board state as an array of 3 strings, each of length 3. Each cell is one of: - 'X' (player X) - 'O' (player O)...
Implement an LRU cache
Problem: LRU Cache Design and implement a data structure that supports an LRU (Least Recently Used) cache with a fixed capacity. Requirements Implemen...