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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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- FigmaMediumData ScientistPresent a Relevant Data Science Project to a Hiring Manager
This question assesses a candidate's ability to communicate technical complexity to a business audience, demonstrate ownership, and articulate the link between statistical results and product outcomes.
Behavioral & LeadershipOnsiteBehavioralProject-WalkthroughCommunication - FigmaMediumSoftware EngineerShare behavioral stories
This interview question evaluates behavioral evidence, ownership, communication, trade-offs, and measurable outcomes in a realistic interview setting. A strong answer for Share behavioral stories states assumptions, handles edge cases, explains trade-offs, and shows how to validate the result clearly.
Behavioral & LeadershipTechnical Screen - FigmaMediumSoftware EngineerValidate a Balanced INDENT and DEDENT Token Stream
Determine if a sequence of structural tokens maintains valid scoping rules—never closing an un-opened level and closing all levels by the end. Tests single-pass balance checking, edge-case handling for empty streams, and O(1) space optimization.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnsiteStackParsingState Machine - FigmaMediumData EngineerWrite SQL for first share and closest collaborator
This question evaluates SQL proficiency—specifically joins, filtering, type casting, temporal aggregation, window functions or deduplication, and deterministic tie-breaking—by requiring derivation of first non-creator view times and per-creator collaborator counts from event tables.
Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical Screen - FigureEasySoftware EngineerDesign a Multimodal Training Data Pipeline
This question evaluates a candidate's ability to design scalable, reliable backend systems for ingesting and processing multimodal training data, testing competencies in distributed system architecture, API and storage design, large-media handling, data validation, duplicate detection, quality control, observability, and awareness of data bias.
ML System DesignTechnical Screen - FigureaiMediumData EngineerBuild a Firmware Data Quality and Release-Feedback Framework
This question tests the ability to design an end-to-end data pipeline architecture that ensures high-fidelity telemetry collection, automated quality validation, and safe release orchestration for embedded firmware devices.
System DesignTechnical ScreenData EngineeringFirmwareObservability - FigureaiMediumData EngineerChoose a Metric Hierarchy for a Humanoid-Robot Fleet
This problem tests the ability to structure a multi-layered metrics dashboard for complex hardware-software systems, balancing operational efficiency against safety and system stability.
Analytics & ExperimentationTechnical ScreenMetricsData ModelingRobotics - FigureaiMediumData EngineerDesign a Telemetry Platform Ingesting Two Gigabytes per Second
This question tests your ability to design a high-throughput, fault-tolerant telemetry ingestion pipeline capable of handling high-velocity data streams from distributed robotic systems.
System DesignTechnical ScreenData EngineeringScalabilityDistributed Systems - FigureaiMediumData EngineerDiagnose the Leading Cause of Slow or Failed Charging
This problem tests your ability to define metrics from imperfect telemetry, perform root cause analysis on hardware failure, and design a strategy to identify performance bottlenecks in an autonomous charging system.
Analytics & ExperimentationTechnical ScreenData EngineeringRoot Cause AnalysisTelemetry - FireworksMediumSoftware EngineerDetect Security Attacks in Text Logs Using Sliding-Window Rules
Write a program that scans large text-format network logs and reports security attacks defined by rules, such as one source IP contacting more than 10 distinct destination IPs within 10 minutes. It tests parsing, per-source sliding-window state, optimizing a slow first version, and designing targeted test cases.
Software Engineering FundamentalsTechnical Screen - FireworksMediumMachine Learning EngineerRecommend Connections Through Mutual Friends and Evaluate the Ranking
Design a connection recommendation system based on mutual connections, define bounded graph affinity scores, and evaluate the ranking pipeline using metrics like NDCG with independent labels.
ML System DesignOnsiteGraph MLRecommender SystemsRanking - First AmericanMediumData ScientistClarify Ambiguous Requirements and Resolve Team Conflicts
This interview question evaluates behavioral evidence, ownership, communication, trade-offs, and measurable outcomes in a realistic interview setting. A strong answer for Clarify Ambiguous Requirements and Resolve Team Conflicts states assumptions, handles edge cases, explains trade-offs, and shows how to validate the result clearly.
Behavioral & LeadershipOnsite - Five RingsHardData ScientistSolve coin probability and Bayesian inference problems
This question evaluates probabilistic reasoning, stochastic-process intuition (pattern waiting times and runs), expected-value calculations, and Bayesian parameter estimation competency.
Statistics & MathOnline Assessment - FivetranEasySoftware EngineerDesign a Simplified WhatsApp: Message Send and Receive, Schema, and Scaling
Design a simplified WhatsApp focused on sending and receiving messages: the online and offline delivery flow, client APIs, the database schema, and scaling. It tests connection routing, delivery guarantees and ordering, and a choice between relational and NoSQL storage justified by access patterns.
System DesignTechnical Screen - FivetranEasySoftware EngineerImplement a SQL Engine's Storage Layer: Create Database, Schema, Table and Row CRUD
Implement the final storage layer of a SQL engine: create databases, schemas, and tables, then insert, select, update, and delete rows with every change persisted to disk. It tests on-disk layout and catalog design, row identity, crash safety and durability, and the trade-offs between log-based and page-based designs.
Software Engineering FundamentalsTechnical Screen - Flatiron HealthMediumData ScientistBuild a robust ML pipeline
This question evaluates a candidate's competency in designing robust end-to-end ML pipelines, covering temporal data slicing, leakage controls, time-series cross-validation, feature store consistency, offline and business metrics, drift detection and monitoring, online rollout strategies, retraining triggers, and fairness assessment.
Machine LearningTechnical Screen - Flatiron HealthMediumData ScientistCompute churn metrics and rank top students
This question evaluates proficiency in data cleaning, transformation, aggregation, and deterministic ranking across R (tidyverse) and SQL, focusing on handling missing values, date arithmetic, aggregation and rounding of metrics, and top-N selection with tie-breaking.
Data Manipulation (SQL/Python)Technical Screen - Flatiron HealthMediumData ScientistWrite SQL window functions for streaks
This question evaluates proficiency with SQL window functions, date arithmetic, gap-and-island (streak) detection, rolling aggregates, and event-order sequencing to derive DAU, revenue metrics, and inactivity gaps.
Data Manipulation (SQL/Python)Technical Screen - FlexportHardSoftware EngineerDesign Container Assignment with Incompatible Goods
Design a shipment-planning and container-packing service that assigns cargo items to ocean containers subject to physical dimensions, weight limits, and hazardous/incompatibility rules while supporting async workflows and plan approvals.
System DesignOnsiteDistributed SystemsOptimizationConcurrency - FlexportHardSoftware EngineerIdentify a Target Word with Repeated Minimax Guesses
This problem tests advanced search heuristics and state-space pruning by requiring the implementation of a Wordle-style feedback system that uses a minimax strategy to identify a secret word from a dictionary.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnsiteMinimaxHeuristicsPruning - FlexportHardSoftware EngineerMeasure Meeting Coverage and Required Rooms
This problem tests your ability to manipulate interval data, specifically calculating the total coverage area and finding the maximum concurrency using a sweep-line algorithm.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnsiteSortingSweep-lineIntervals - FlexportMediumSoftware EngineerSolve Two Robbery Optimization Variants
This problem tests your ability to apply dynamic programming to linear structures and tree-based data structures to find the maximum weight independent set under constraints.
Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical ScreenDynamic ProgrammingTreesRecursion - FlexportMediumSoftware EngineerValidate and restore IPv4 addresses
This question evaluates string processing, strict input validation rules, and constrained combinatorial search skills (e.g., backtracking) for generating and verifying IPv4 addresses.
Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical Screen - FlipkartMediumProduct ManagerDesign a Hiring Platform for Low-Income Rural Migrants Seeking City Jobs
A product sense question asking how to design a job portal for low-income workers who move from rural villages to cities. It tests choosing worker and employer segments, designing for low literacy and cheap phones, protecting workers from fake jobs and wage theft, solving the marketplace cold start, and choosing hire-based success metrics.
Product Design & StrategyOther - FlipsterEasySoftware EngineerCompute max profit from one stock trade
This question evaluates a candidate's understanding of array-based data processing, difference maximization, and basic algorithmic optimization for time-series inputs. It is commonly asked in Coding & Algorithms interviews to assess fundamental practical programming ability and attention to edge cases (e.g.
Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical Screen - FlipsterEasySoftware EngineerDesign 64-bit distributed IDs and a parking lot
The question evaluates distributed-systems and scalability competencies for globally unique 64-bit ID generation (including sharding, time-ordering, fault tolerance and clock issues) as well as object-oriented design, concurrency control, API design, and data modeling for a parking lot backend.
System DesignTechnical Screen - FluidstackMediumSoftware EngineerDesign a Distributed Job Scheduler for One-Off and Recurring Jobs
A system design question asking you to design a distributed job scheduler that runs jobs immediately, at a set time or on a recurring cron schedule across a pool of workers. It tests how you find due jobs at scale, prevent duplicate runs, recover from worker failures, and handle retries, bursts and missed runs.
System DesignTechnical Screen - FluidstackEasySoftware EngineerDesign a Fair GPU Training Job Platform
Design a centralized scheduling and execution platform for one-off ML training jobs across a shared, heterogeneous GPU cluster, balancing fair resource sharing, multi-GPU network topology, and fault tolerance.
System DesignOnsiteGPU SchedulingDistributed SystemsML Infrastructure - Fora TravelEasySoftware EngineerDesign Caching for a Hotel Booking System
Design a high-throughput caching and inventory architecture for a hotel booking platform that accelerates read-heavy search traffic while strictly preventing overselling through temporary holds and authoritative consistency.
System DesignOnsitesystem-designcachingdistributed-systems - Fora TravelMediumSoftware EngineerDesign Course, Module, and Lesson Progress APIs
Tests your ability to design RESTful APIs and underlying data access patterns for a hierarchical learning management domain (Course -> Module -> Lesson) with authenticated user scoping, idempotent completion updates, and derived completion metrics.
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