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Coding & Algorithms Interview Questions

Practice 9403 coding, system design and machine learning questions from 546 companies, sorted by role, topic and interview round. Every question has step-by-step hints, a code runner that supports 8 languages and an AI mentor; members also get the full solution walkthrough.

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  • AmazonMediumSoftware Engineer
    Drone Circular Route — Minimum Total Travel Cost

    This problem tests your ability to solve a variation of the Traveling Salesman Problem using bitmask dynamic programming to optimize route costs in a small, weighted graph.

    Coding & AlgorithmsOnline AssessmentDynamic ProgrammingBitmaskingGraph Theory
  • AmazonMediumSoftware Engineer
    Escalation Stack That Resolves the Most-Reported Issue First

    Design a support-escalation structure where resolving an issue always clears whichever one currently has the most open reports, breaking ties by the most recently reported occurrence. Tests combining frequency and recency so both operations run in O(1).

    Coding & AlgorithmsOnsitestackhash-mapdesign
  • AmazonHardSoftware Engineer
    Evaluate IP Access Rules

    This question evaluates knowledge of IPv4 addressing, CIDR subnet matching, and access-control rule resolution, assessing competency in bitwise address reasoning, prefix-length precedence, and rule tie-breaking.

    Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical Screen
  • AmazonHardSoftware Engineer
    Fewest Severity Inversions When Interleaving Two Patch Queues

    Merge two severity-labeled patch queues into one install order that keeps each queue's internal order, and return the minimum number of severity inversions over every valid merge. Tests DP over two sequences and efficient counting with letters as priorities.

    Coding & AlgorithmsOnline Assessmentdynamic-programmingstringsinversions
  • AmazonHardSoftware Engineer
    Find Longest Activatable Server Streak

    This problem tests your ability to use the sliding window technique to find the longest contiguous subarray that satisfies a specific count-based constraint.

    Coding & AlgorithmsOnline AssessmentSliding WindowTwo PointersArray
  • AmazonHardSoftware Engineer
    Find Two-Word Compound Words

    This problem tests string manipulation, hash set lookups, and the ability to efficiently identify compound words formed by the concatenation of exactly two distinct words from a provided collection.

    Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical ScreenStringsHash SetAlgorithms
  • AmazonHardSoftware Engineer
    Find a Maximum-Sum Window in a Sparse Array

    This problem tests the ability to optimize sliding window calculations for extremely large arrays by leveraging compressed data structures (run-length encoding) rather than materializing the full array.

    Coding & AlgorithmsOnline AssessmentSliding WindowArraysOptimization
  • AmazonHardSoftware Engineer
    Find a Valid Course Order

    This problem tests your ability to detect cycles in a directed graph and perform a topological sort to resolve dependencies.

    Coding & AlgorithmsOnsiteGraphsTopological SortKahn's Algorithm
  • AmazonMediumSoftware Engineer
    Find a valid dependency order

    This question evaluates understanding of directed graphs, dependency resolution and cycle detection, and the ability to reason about valid ordering constraints within a graph representation.

    Coding & AlgorithmsOnline Assessment
  • AmazonEasySoftware Engineer
    Find all cells reachable by downhill flow

    This question evaluates graph traversal and reachability reasoning on a 2D elevation grid, testing algorithmic problem-solving, complexity analysis, and handling of monotonic flow constraints.

    Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical Screen
  • AmazonMediumSoftware Engineer
    Find concatenated words in list

    This question evaluates proficiency in string manipulation, efficient lookup structures (e.g., hashing/trie) and dynamic programming or recursion for word segmentation, testing algorithmic efficiency and data-structure selection within the Coding & Algorithms domain.

    Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical Screen
  • AmazonMediumSoftware Engineer
    Find first unique character

    Find first unique character evaluates algorithm design, data structures, correctness, complexity, edge cases, and implementation details in a realistic interview setting. A strong answer states assumptions, handles edge cases, explains trade-offs, and shows how to validate the result clearly.

    Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical Screen
  • AmazonMediumSoftware Engineer
    Find longest common contiguous subarray

    This question evaluates a candidate's proficiency in array and substring algorithm design, including concepts such as dynamic programming, hashing, and efficient search techniques.

    Coding & AlgorithmsOnsite
  • AmazonMediumSoftware Engineer
    Find longest segment with dominant ends

    This question evaluates algorithmic problem-solving with arrays and complexity-aware design, testing skills in efficient subarray identification, boundary reasoning, and performance analysis within the Coding & Algorithms domain.

    Coding & AlgorithmsOnline Assessment
  • AmazonMediumSoftware Engineer
    Find longest segment with endpoints > interior

    This question evaluates algorithmic design and array-processing skills, specifically reasoning about subarray endpoint vs interior relationships, range comparisons, and designing solutions with subquadratic time and space complexity.

    Coding & AlgorithmsOnline Assessment
  • AmazonMediumSoftware Engineer
    Find max equal-frequency block count for each prefix

    This problem tests your ability to efficiently manage character frequency tracking while processing string prefixes, using hash maps or frequency arrays to validate partitioning conditions.

    Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical ScreenStringsDynamic ProgrammingHash Map
  • AmazonMediumSoftware Engineer
    Find minimum days to deliver all orders

    This question evaluates algorithm design and combinatorial optimization skills, focusing on scheduling and load-balancing under per-center capacity constraints and frequency-based counting.

    Coding & AlgorithmsOnline Assessment
  • AmazonMediumSoftware Engineer
    Find minimum time for irrecoverable password

    This question evaluates string-processing skills, combinatorial counting of substrings, simulation of time-based state changes, and algorithmic complexity analysis.

    Coding & AlgorithmsOnline Assessment
  • AmazonMediumSoftware Engineer
    Find minimum total range-increment to sort

    This problem tests your ability to determine the minimum total operations required to make an array non-decreasing by incrementing contiguous subarrays, requiring insights into difference arrays or monotonic properties.

    Coding & AlgorithmsOnline AssessmentGreedyArraysDifference Array
  • AmazonMediumSoftware Engineer
    Find returning users from access logs

    This question evaluates skills in time-series data processing, timestamp parsing and time-zone normalization, scalable stream or batch handling for logs that exceed memory, algorithmic complexity analysis, and test-case design for edge conditions such as midnight boundaries and duplicate events.

    Coding & AlgorithmsOnsite
  • AmazonMediumApplied Scientist
    Find shortest path in a grid with obstacles

    This question evaluates understanding of pathfinding in grid-based environments, graph traversal concepts, and algorithmic complexity when navigating obstacles and boundary constraints in an unweighted 2D search space.

    Coding & AlgorithmsOnsite
  • AmazonMediumSoftware Engineer
    Find shortest subarray to restore order

    This question evaluates array manipulation and algorithmic problem-solving skills, focusing on understanding how local subarray sorting affects global order, edge-case reasoning (already-sorted arrays, duplicates, strictly decreasing sequences), and complexity analysis within the Coding & Algorithms domain.

    Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical Screen
  • AmazonMediumApplied Scientist
    Find shortest transformation steps in a word graph

    This question evaluates a candidate's ability to model string transformations as a graph, apply graph traversal and shortest-path reasoning, and manage efficient string-based search and data-structure choices within the Coding & Algorithms domain.

    Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical Screen
  • AmazonHardSoftware Engineer
    Find the Closest Version by Date

    This problem tests your ability to efficiently search through chronologically ordered records and handle binary search logic with custom comparison rules.

    Coding & AlgorithmsOnsiteBinary SearchArraysAlgorithms
  • AmazonEasySoftware Engineer
    Find the Earliest Pair with a Target Sum

    Tests array traversal and hash table lookups to find a two-sum pair that minimizes the second index, running in linear time and space.

    Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical Screenarrayhash-tabletwo-sum
  • AmazonMediumSoftware Engineer
    Find the K Most Frequent Values

    Find any valid set of the k most frequent distinct integers, handling boundary ties with frequency counting, bounded heaps, or frequency buckets.

    Coding & AlgorithmsOnline Assessment
  • AmazonMediumSoftware Engineer
    Find the K-th Smallest Value in Two Sorted Arrays

    Given two nondecreasing integer arrays and a one-based integer k, return the k-th smallest value in their combined multiset. Work through the function contract, boundary cases, correctness argument, and time and space complexity expected in a production-quality solution.

    Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical Screen
  • AmazonMediumSoftware Engineer
    Find the Kth Smallest Value in a Binary Search Tree

    Deserialize a level-order serialized binary search tree and find its kth smallest element using an efficient in-order traversal.

    Coding & AlgorithmsOnsitebinary-search-treetree-traversalstack
  • AmazonHardSoftware Engineer
    Find the Largest Rating Threshold Supported by K Instances

    Find the largest k for which at least k instance ratings are at least k, handling threshold equality and the zero-answer case.

    Coding & AlgorithmsOnline Assessment
  • AmazonEasySoftware Engineer
    Find the Lowest Common Ancestor in a Binary Tree

    This problem tests tree traversal techniques and recursive logic to identify the deepest node that is an ancestor to two specified nodes within a binary tree.

    Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical ScreenBinary TreeRecursionDFS