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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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- AmazonMediumSoftware EngineerFind 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 EngineerFind 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 - AmazonMediumSoftware EngineerFind 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 - AmazonHardSoftware EngineerFind 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 EngineerFind 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 EngineerFind 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 EngineerFind 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 EngineerFind 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 EngineerFind 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 EngineerFind 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 - AmazonMediumSoftware EngineerFind the Maximum Island Area
Find the largest four-neighbor island area in a binary matrix, including the component-size challenges of row-by-row streaming.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnline Assessment - AmazonMediumSoftware EngineerFind the Minimum Processing Rate to Meet a Deadline
This problem tests the ability to determine a minimum threshold using binary search on the answer space, combined with modular arithmetic and ceiling division.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnsiteBinary SearchMathOptimization - AmazonHardSoftware EngineerFind the Most Common Visit Pattern
This problem tests your ability to process chronological event data to identify the most frequent 3-step sequence, requiring efficient data structures to handle large volumes of user logs.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnsiteHash MapSortingSliding Window - AmazonMediumSoftware EngineerFind the Most Frequent Request IDs
Implement an algorithm to identify the top k most frequent request IDs from a stream of log events, breaking frequency ties by smaller ID values and handling cases where k exceeds the number of unique IDs.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnsitehash-tableheapsorting - AmazonEasySoftware EngineerFind the Most Frequently Used Meeting Room
Simulate meeting room assignments with delayed starts and duration preservation using priority queues to find the most utilized room.
Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical ScreenHeapSimulationGreedy - AmazonEasySoftware EngineerFind the Single Value in a Sorted Array of Pairs
This problem tests the ability to optimize a linear search into a logarithmic one by leveraging the properties of sorted pairs using binary search.
Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical ScreenBinary SearchArraysDivide and Conquer - AmazonMediumSoftware EngineerFind top-k lottery winners by spending
This problem tests the ability to manage top-k selection from a stream or static collection using heap data structures while enforcing deterministic tie-breaking rules.
Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical ScreenHeapsSortingAlgorithms - AmazonMediumSoftware EngineerFind when failures started in log stream
This problem tests the ability to identify the first occurrence of a specific condition in a sorted boolean stream using a modified binary search approach.
Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical ScreenBinary SearchAlgorithmsOptimization - AmazonMediumSoftware EngineerFinding the Root Cause of an Intermittent Failure When the Obvious Metrics Look Healthy
A behavioral debugging question: describe a system that failed intermittently while its obvious metrics looked healthy, how you found the root cause, and how long it took. It tests whether you can explain why the dashboards stayed green and show a systematic, evidence-driven narrowing process.
Behavioral & LeadershipOnsite - AmazonHardSoftware EngineerFix a Broken Podcast Episode Search Against Five Behavior Rules
Fix a broken podcast episode search function so it matches substrings case-insensitively, supports searching by title, host, or both, sorts results correctly, and excludes unpublished episodes.
Software Engineering FundamentalsOnline Assessmentdebuggingtestingsearch - AmazonHardSoftware EngineerFix a Buggy Spring Boot Movie Search Against Five Search Rules
From an Amazon online assessment: fix a buggy Spring Boot movie search backend so that search is partial-match and case-insensitive, can target titles, stars or all fields, sorts by popularity with further keys, and returns only published movies. It tests debugging layered code, query logic and test-first verification.
Software Engineering FundamentalsOnline Assessment - AmazonMediumSoftware EngineerFix the Password Reset Workflow
Implement and debug a stateful password reset manager that handles token generation, time-to-live (TTL) expiry, brute-force attempt limits, and single-use token invalidation.
Software Engineering FundamentalsOnline AssessmentAuthenticationState MachineSecurity - AmazonMediumSoftware EngineerFrequency Stack with Recency Tie-Breaking
Design a frequency stack data structure that supports pushing elements and popping the most frequent element, breaking ties by choosing the most recently pushed element, with both operations running in O(1) time.
Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical Screenstackhash-tabledesign - AmazonMediumSoftware EngineerGenAI Literacy Questions: Daily AI Use, Handling Bad AI Output, and RAG Projects
Behavioral questions on generative AI literacy reported from hiring manager and Bar Raiser rounds: how you use AI tools day to day, a time you caught bad AI output, and a walkthrough of a retrieval-augmented generation project. It tests verification habits, judgment about data boundaries and RAG fundamentals.
Behavioral & LeadershipOnsite - AmazonMediumSoftware EngineerGeneralize Dictionary Merging
Explain an approach to merging two dictionaries and generalizing it efficiently to k dictionaries, explicitly identifying the collision semantics that must be clarified.
Software Engineering FundamentalsOnsite - AmazonMediumSoftware EngineerGoing Above and Beyond for a Customer and Refusing to Lower the Quality Bar
Two customer-focused behavioral prompts: describe going well beyond what was required to solve a customer's problem, and refusing to compromise on quality or service under pressure to cut corners. It assesses customer focus, judgment about trade-offs and raising standards for the whole team.
Behavioral & LeadershipOther - AmazonMediumSoftware EngineerGroup Anagrams Without Sorted Character Signatures
Group anagrams without sorting each word's characters, preserving repeated words and reasoning about frequency signatures and overflow-prone encodings.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnline Assessment - AmazonMediumSoftware EngineerHandle Workplace Conflict and Criticism
This question tests your ability to navigate professional disagreements and integrate constructive feedback while maintaining focus on project outcomes.
Behavioral & LeadershipTechnical ScreenBehavioralCommunicationLeadership - AmazonMediumSoftware EngineerHandle deadlines and misses
Handle deadlines and misses evaluates behavioral evidence, ownership, communication, trade-offs, and measurable outcomes in a realistic interview setting. A strong answer states assumptions, handles edge cases, explains trade-offs, and shows how to validate the result clearly.
Behavioral & LeadershipTechnical Screen - AmazonMediumSoftware EngineerHigh Availability and Failover for a Primary-Replica Database
This problem tests your ability to design a resilient database architecture that minimizes downtime and data loss during node failures.
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