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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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...
Compute concurrent online drivers
Question Given each driver’s chronologically sorted delivery records, build an algorithm that, for a timestamp t, returns how many distinct drivers we...
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...
Navigate maze via HTTP API
Question Implement a program that repeatedly calls a provided HTTP API which returns the next URL in a maze; continue following the URLs until reachin...
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...
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...
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...
Design timestamped key-value map
Question Design a class that supports insert(key, value, timestamp) and get(key, timestamp) where get returns the value whose timestamp is the smalles...
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...
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 stack and tree problems
Question LeetCode 1249. Minimum Remove to Make Valid Parentheses LeetCode 863. All Nodes Distance K in Binary Tree https://leetcode.com/problems/minim...
Solve LeetCode string and list problems
Question LeetCode 767. Reorganize String LeetCode 23. Merge k Sorted Lists LeetCode 138. Copy List with Random Pointer https://leetcode.com/problems/r...
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...
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 various LeetCode data-structure questions
Question LeetCode 129. Sum Root to Leaf Numbers LeetCode 2089. Find Target Indices After Sorting Array LeetCode 270. Closest Binary Search Tree Value ...
Solve tree leaf sum and target indices search
Question LeetCode 129. Sum Root to Leaf Numbers LeetCode 2089. Find Target Indices After Sorting Array (array already sorted; require O(log n) time) h...
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 min window & animal conflicts
Question LeetCode 76. Minimum Window Substring: Given strings s and t, return the smallest substring of s that contains every character of t (includin...
Find closest BST value and remove parentheses
Question LeetCode 270. Closest Binary Search Tree Value LeetCode 1249. Minimum Remove to Make Valid Parentheses (follow-up: achieve without using a st...