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Software Engineer 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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- AbridgeHardSoftware EngineerExpand a Nested Repeat-Count Encoded String
From an Abridge online assessment: decode a string in which k[text] means the bracketed text repeated k times, with multi-digit counts, nested brackets and plain letters between encoded parts. It tests parsing nested structure correctly and building the expanded output efficiently.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnline Assessment - AbridgeHardSoftware EngineerRun-Length Compress a Character List With Multi-Digit Counts
From an Abridge online assessment: run-length compress a list of characters, writing each run of equal adjacent characters as the character followed by its length, with lengths of 10 or more split into separate digit characters. It tests careful run handling and the in-place, constant-space form of the problem.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnline Assessment - AbridgeHardSoftware EngineerSum of Integers Up to n Divisible by 3, 5, or 7
From an Abridge online assessment: given a positive integer n, return the sum of all integers from 1 to n that are divisible by 3, 5 or 7, adding numbers such as 15 or 21 only once. It tests precise handling of overlapping divisibility conditions and inclusive range boundaries.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnline Assessment - AirbnbMediumSoftware EngineerImplement Connect Four with win detection
This question evaluates a candidate's ability to design efficient data structures and algorithms for real-time game state management, including win detection, API design, time/space complexity analysis, and handling edge cases such as full or out-of-range columns.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnline Assessment - AirbnbHardSoftware EngineerProcess a Timestamped Workspace Credit Ledger
Design and implement an in-memory timestamped credit ledger that supports deposits, transfers, spending with delayed cashback rewards, account merges, balance queries, and spend rankings.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnline AssessmentData StructuresDesignHeap - Akuna CapitalMediumSoftware EngineerCompute max profit across dated stock quotes
This question evaluates a candidate's ability to reason about time-series and transaction-constrained optimization, including handling unsorted inputs, duplicate records, and constructing an explicit sequence of trades under ordering and no-short-selling constraints.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnline Assessment - Akuna CapitalMediumSoftware EngineerCompute min operations to transform integers
This question evaluates algorithmic problem-solving skills related to integer transformations and reasoning about sequences of allowed operations, focusing on optimizing the number of steps. It is commonly used in the Coding & Algorithms domain to assess practical application of algorithmic thinking and time-complexity analysis, testing efficiency reasoning rather than purely conceptual knowledge.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnline Assessment - Akuna CapitalMediumSoftware EngineerHeapify an array into a max-heap
This question evaluates understanding of heap data structures and the in-place bottom-up heapify algorithm for building a max-heap on a 0-indexed array, testing skills in array manipulation, heap invariants, and algorithmic reasoning.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnline Assessment - Akuna CapitalMediumSoftware EngineerSolve swaps, graph paths, and movie DP
This interview question evaluates algorithm design, data structures, correctness, complexity, edge cases, and implementation details in a realistic interview setting. A strong answer for Solve swaps, graph paths, and movie DP states assumptions, handles edge cases, explains trade-offs, and shows how to validate the result clearly.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnline Assessment - Akuna CapitalMediumSoftware EngineerSolve three C++ algorithmic tasks
This interview question evaluates algorithm design, data structures, correctness, complexity, edge cases, and implementation details in a realistic interview setting. A strong answer for Solve three C++ algorithmic tasks states assumptions, handles edge cases, explains trade-offs, and shows how to validate the result clearly.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnline Assessment - Akuna CapitalMediumSoftware EngineerTrace code and find frequent character
Trace code and find frequent 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 & AlgorithmsOnline Assessment - AmazonMediumSoftware EngineerAdd One Source to Minimize Grid Inconvenience
Minimize the worst inconvenience in a binary grid by adding one colored source. Movement is allowed in eight directions, and the solution must handle grids that begin with no source at all.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnline Assessment - AmazonMediumSoftware EngineerBuild the Largest Available Sequence
This problem tests your ability to use a greedy approach combined with a frequency map to construct the lexicographically largest sequence under specific constraints.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnline AssessmentGreedyPriority QueueFrequency Map - AmazonHardSoftware EngineerCircular Drone Hub Delivery Route
This question evaluates a candidate's ability to work with circular array structures and prefix sums to compute shortest distances on a ring topology. It tests practical coding skill in efficiently handling wraparound arithmetic and cumulative sums, a common pattern in algorithm interviews assessing array manipulation and optimization under scale constraints.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnline Assessment - AmazonMediumSoftware EngineerCompute delay times in priority array
This question evaluates algorithmic efficiency in array processing, specifically reasoning about nearest-smaller relationships and the use of auxiliary structures to achieve subquadratic performance.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnline Assessment - AmazonMediumSoftware EngineerCompute maximum distinct-product pickup days
This question evaluates a candidate's understanding of greedy and resource-allocation strategies along with combinatorial reasoning to maximize operations under discrete constraints.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnline Assessment - AmazonEasySoftware EngineerCompute minimal operations and optimal server pairing
This two-part question evaluates array manipulation and optimization skills—specifically range-update minimization to enforce a nondecreasing sequence and greedy pairing/matching to maximize summed primary resources—testing algorithm design, complexity reasoning, and constraint handling.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnline Assessment - AmazonMediumSoftware EngineerCompute reachability and minimal-time same-type scheduling
This prompt evaluates integer reachability and invariant reasoning via repeated additive transformations (testing number-theoretic reachability and state-space analysis) alongside resource-aware scheduling and grouping logic for minimizing completion time under type and memory constraints, and it falls under the Coding & Algorithms domain.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnline Assessment - AmazonMediumSoftware EngineerCount Four-Neighbor Islands in a Binary Matrix
Count four-neighbor islands in a binary matrix and consider the connectivity state needed when rows arrive as a stream.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnline Assessment - AmazonMediumSoftware EngineerCount partitions and equal-cost packages
This question evaluates string-processing and combinatorial counting skills, including tracking distinct-character occurrences across contiguous partitions and using frequency-based pairing logic on arrays to form equal-cost packages.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnline Assessment - AmazonMediumSoftware EngineerDesign faster delay-time computation
This question evaluates a candidate's ability to design efficient array algorithms and appropriate data structures for nearest-smaller-element queries, assessing performance, correctness with duplicates, and scalability to large inputs.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnline Assessment - AmazonMediumSoftware EngineerDetermine Rounds for Star Substring Threshold
This question evaluates string-processing and algorithmic problem-solving skills, including handling incremental updates, counting substrings impacted by character replacements, and performance-aware simulation.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnline Assessment - AmazonMediumSoftware EngineerDrone 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 - AmazonHardSoftware EngineerFewest 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 EngineerFind 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 EngineerFind 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 - AmazonMediumSoftware EngineerFind 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 - AmazonMediumSoftware EngineerFind 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 EngineerFind 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 EngineerFind 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.
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