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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Remove duplicates in linked list
Question Given a linked list, remove all duplicate values so that each value appears only once. Provide solutions for both sorted and unsorted linked ...
Solve palindrome pairs and key path
Question LeetCode 336. Palindrome Pairs; LeetCode 864. Shortest Path to Get All Keys https://leetcode.com/problems/palindrome-pairs/description/ https...
Perform matrix Candy Crush elimination
Question Implement a function that, given an m × n integer matrix representing colored blocks (same integers = same color), performs one round of "Can...
Find Lowest Common Ancestor with Parents
Question LeetCode 1650. Lowest Common Ancestor of a Binary Tree III Compute the time and space complexity of your solution https://leetcode.com/proble...
Implement Card Validation and Recovery System
Question Design and implement a payment-card validation system supporting: Basic VISA validation (16-digit numbers starting with 4) using the Luhn che...
Count uniques in sparse sorted array
Question A sorted array contains many duplicates but only a very small number of distinct values. Design an algorithm that counts how many unique numb...
Solve message splitting and board crushing
Question LeetCode 2468. Split Message Based on Limit – Given a message string and a per-line width, split it into parts adding the suffix "<i/n>" (e.g...
Compute max-ons and deletion indices
Question Given a circular array of n computers represented by 0 (off) and 1 (on), determine the maximum possible number of on computers within any con...
Find longest segment with dominant ends
Question Given an integer array nums, find and return the length of the longest contiguous subarray such that the first and last elements of the subar...
Solve non-repeating show substring
Question LeetCode 3. Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters – variant where the elements are show names instead of numbers. https://leetcode.c...
Compute balances and array queries
Question Given a list of transactions where each transaction has a userId and an amount (positive for credit, negative for debit), compute the final b...
Evaluate arithmetic expression with precedence
Question Implement an evaluator for a string arithmetic expression. The input contains non-negative integers, the operators +, -, `, /, parentheses ( ...
Design payment scheduler with cancel and top-K outgoing
Design and implement an in-memory banking payment component with the following APIs: ( 1) schedulePayment(payerId, payeeId, amount, executeAt) -> paym...
Implement a banking operations system
Implement a simple banking system that manages multiple accounts with initial balances. Support operations: deposit(accountId, amount), withdraw(accou...
Find longest unique show window
Given an array of show names (strings) representing a user's viewing history, return the start and end indices of a longest contiguous subarray that c...
Parse a password from a matrix
Given an m x n matrix of characters, a starting coordinate (row, col), and a string of moves consisting of 'U', 'D', 'L', 'R', parse a password by vis...
Validate password strength and repair
Given a password policy—length between 8 and 20 characters; must include at least one lowercase letter, one uppercase letter, and one digit; and must ...
Design document editor with undo/redo and batching
Design a document-editing layer that supports applying edits and undo. Implement an API with apply(Operation op), undo(), and getText(). Then add tran...
Validate course catalog dependencies
Design a function to validate an e-learning course catalog. You are given: ( 1) a set of course IDs, and ( 2) a list of prerequisite pairs (u, v) mean...
Implement binary search from scratch
Question Implement binary search on a sorted integer array without using any library helpers (no bisect, Arrays.binarySearch, etc.). Provide both iter...