Software Engineer Interview Questions
Practice 5,054 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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Solve classic LeetCode problems
Question LeetCode 215. Kth Largest Element in an Array LeetCode 249. Group Shifted Strings Variant of LeetCode 56. Merge Intervals extended to 2-D rec...
Implement tree ops and LRU cache
Question Implement set(index) and clear(index) for the leaves of a full binary tree initially filled with 0s, where a parent node becomes 1 only when ...
Implement string-path file system operations
Question LeetCode 1166. Design File System – extended to support Create(path, value), Get(path), Set(path, value) and Delete(path) with validation rul...
Solve diameter and shortest bridge problems
Question LeetCode 543. Diameter of Binary Tree LeetCode 934. Shortest Bridge https://leetcode.com/problems/diameter-of-binary-tree/description/ https:...
Solve intervals and distinct islands
Question LeetCode 56. Merge Intervals LeetCode 694. Number of Distinct Islands https://leetcode.com/problems/merge-intervals/description/ https://leet...
Review Python geodata code
Question You are given a Python codebase that performs geolocation data processing. Conduct a thorough code review: identify readability, correctness,...
Find integer in most intervals
Question Given N integer intervals [ai, bi] (positive integers), find an integer that belongs to the maximum number of intervals (return any such inte...
Compute maximum distinct-product pickup days
Question Given an array of positive integers representing quantities of different products, on day i (starting from 1) you must pick exactly i distinc...
Handle palindrome & decimal addition
Question LeetCode 266. Palindrome Permutation Given two non-negative decimal number strings, implement addition that supports a decimal point. https:/...
Solve vertical order & diameter variants
Question LeetCode 314. Binary Tree Vertical Order Traversal LeetCode 543. Diameter of Binary Tree – modified to return the number of nodes (edges + 1)...
Find Top K Frequent Elements
Question LeetCode 347. Top K Frequent Elements – given an integer array nums, return the k most frequent elements. Initial requirement: return the top...
Solve LeetCode array & stream problems
Question LeetCode 346. Moving Average from Data Stream LeetCode 249. Group Shifted Strings LeetCode 163. Missing Ranges Remove duplicates from a chara...
Solve island and frequency problems
Question LeetCode 200. Number of Islands – given a 2D grid, count the number of connected islands of '1's using DFS/BFS/Union-Find. LeetCode 695. Max ...
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...
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:/...
Determine Rounds for Star Substring Threshold
Question Given a string S, an offset array O (replacement order), and an integer M, repeatedly replace S[O[i]] with ''. Determine the minimum number o...
Check tree nodes equal subtree average
Question LeetCode 2265. Count Nodes Equal to Average of Subtree – Adapted: Verify that every node’s value equals the average of all values in its subt...
Implement basic calculator
Question LeetCode 227. Basic Calculator II – implement an arithmetic expression evaluator supporting +, -, *, / and integer operands https://leetcode....
Compute minimum passes to collect numbers
Question You are given an array shelf of n distinct integers that is a permutation of 1…n. Starting with target = 1, you repeatedly scan shelf from le...
Solve array and list algorithms
Question LeetCode 315. Count of Smaller Numbers After Self LeetCode 23. Merge k Sorted Lists Design algorithm for Amazon Locker getPackage (retrieve p...