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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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- RampMediumSoftware EngineerFind the Exit of an HTTP URL Maze Despite Flaky 503s and Bad JSON
A coding exercise to find the exit of a maze of HTTP endpoints, where each JSON response lists the next paths to visit until one returns a congrats message. It tests graph traversal with deduplication, URL handling, and robust treatment of flaky 503 responses and malformed JSON with bounded retries.
Software Engineering FundamentalsTechnical Screen - RampMediumSoftware EngineerFrom Take-Home Script to Production: Python Trade-offs and Hardening a Data Job
This question evaluates a candidate's engineering judgment about Python's language trade-offs and the steps needed to harden a working script for production use. It tests understanding of dynamic typing, concurrency limits, and correct handling of monetary data, commonly asked to assess practical software-engineering maturity beyond algorithmic correctness.
Software Engineering FundamentalsOnline Assessment - RampMediumSoftware EngineerImplement Spreadsheet Cells with Dependencies
This problem tests graph theory fundamentals, specifically cycle detection and topological sorting in the context of a dependency-driven computation engine.
Software Engineering FundamentalsTechnical ScreenGraphDFSTopological Sort - RampHardSoftware EngineerImplement a Clean In-Memory Transaction Ledger
Design an in-memory double-entry style financial transaction ledger that supports atomic transfers, strict balance invariants, and idempotency key handling.
Software Engineering FundamentalsOnsiteSystem FundamentalsData StructuresIdempotency - RampMediumSoftware EngineerImplement a Per-IP Sliding Window Rate Limiter
Implement a per-IP sliding window rate limiter that tracks request timestamps to enforce rate limits over a rolling time window. The problem evaluates state management, time-window data structures, memory leak prevention, and edge-case handling.
Software Engineering FundamentalsTechnical Screenrate-limitingsliding-windowdata-structures - RampMediumSoftware EngineerImplement a React flag loader with typewriter effect
This question evaluates front-end engineering skills including React and TypeScript component design, DOM inspection and extraction, HTTP fetching and parsing, asynchronous timing for typewriter animations, resource cleanup, and testability with Mocha; domain: Software Engineering Fundamentals; level: practical application.
Software Engineering FundamentalsOnline Assessment - RampMediumSoftware EngineerImplement a Single-Screen Tic-Tac-Toe Game with State Management
This problem tests your ability to model state transitions, encapsulate game logic, and handle user interactions in a clean, maintainable way.
Software Engineering FundamentalsTechnical ScreenState ManagementLogicObject-Oriented Programming - RampMediumSoftware EngineerImplement a multi-level digital recipe manager
Tests skills in data modeling and stateful class implementation, covering CRUD operations, case-insensitive string handling, recipe ID generation, list management, search and sort logic, and basic user/edit permissions.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnline Assessment - RampHardSoftware EngineerImplement and Defend an AI-Assisted Repository Change
Tests your ability to implement a new feature in a simulated unfamiliar codebase using AI tools responsibly, identifying subtle generated bugs, ensuring test coverage, and defending every architectural and implementation decision.
Software Engineering FundamentalsOnsitecode-auditfinancial-ledgerclean-code - RampMediumSoftware EngineerImplement multi-level task manager APIs
This question evaluates implementation skills for stateful in-memory data structures, API evolution handling, substring search and prioritized sorting, and time-windowed assignment logic with quota enforcement in the Coding & Algorithms domain, and is primarily a practical application problem rather than a purely conceptual one.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnline Assessment - RampMediumSoftware EngineerMaximize Earnings by Converting Days Off into Workdays
This question evaluates a candidate's skill in dynamic programming and constrained optimization, specifically deciding which state transitions to modify under a limited budget of changes. It falls under coding and algorithms interviews, testing practical application of greedy or DP reasoning over sequential data with adjacency-based bonuses rather than pure conceptual knowledge.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnline Assessment - RampMediumSoftware EngineerMaximum Profit from Dated Stock Trade Records
This question evaluates a candidate's ability to design an efficient single-pass algorithm for grouped time-series data, tracking per-symbol running minimums to compute maximum achievable profit. It tests array processing, hash-map grouping, and edge-case handling for unsorted records, commonly used in coding interviews to assess practical algorithmic problem-solving rather than pure theory.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnline Assessment - RampMediumSoftware EngineerMaximum Profit from Multi-Stock Trading Records
This question evaluates a candidate's ability to parse and sort unstructured event data, then apply a greedy or dynamic-programming strategy for maximizing profit across multiple independent series. It falls under coding and algorithms, commonly used to assess array processing, state tracking, and stock-trading pattern recognition at a practical implementation level.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnline Assessment - RampMediumSoftware EngineerMulti-Level Warehouse Storage with Weighted Retrieval
This question evaluates a candidate's ability to design an object-oriented data structure with multiple prioritized eviction and expiration rules. It tests skills in coding and algorithms, specifically simulating TTL-based expiry alongside tiered, capacity-aware selection logic. Such multi-rule state machine problems are common in interviews to assess careful requirement tracking and practical implementation of layered constraints.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnline Assessment - RampMediumSoftware EngineerNavigate a Maze Through a Next-Step API
Design an algorithm to find an exit path in an unknown maze using an interactive, stateful API with backtracking.
Software Engineering FundamentalsTechnical ScreenDFSBacktrackingGraph Traversal - RampMediumSoftware EngineerNavigate maze via HTTP API
This question evaluates a candidate's ability to implement programmatic traversal of linked resources via an HTTP API, testing skills in network I/O, control flow, state management, and algorithmic traversal.
Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical Screen - RampMediumSoftware EngineerPer-IP Sliding-Window Rate Limiter: Accept or Reject Each Request
Implement a per-IP sliding-window rate limiter: given request timestamps, IP addresses, a request limit and a window length, decide in order whether each request is accepted or rejected. Tests exact window-boundary semantics, per-IP state, and processing a request log efficiently.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnline Assessment - RampHardSoftware EngineerPresent a System You Designed
This question tests your ability to articulate a complex technical project, demonstrating architectural decision-making, ownership, and the ability to evaluate trade-offs in a real-world scenario.
Behavioral & LeadershipOnsiteSystem DesignArchitectureLeadership - RampHardSoftware EngineerReconcile Records Across Sources
This question evaluates entity resolution, record linkage, data normalization, conflict resolution, and data quality competencies within the Software Engineering Fundamentals domain by probing how to identify, group, and produce canonical person records from multiple noisy sources.
Software Engineering FundamentalsTechnical Screen - RampMediumSoftware EngineerSpreadsheet String Concatenation with Dependent Cells
Build a fixed-grid string spreadsheet with concatenation formulas, dependency updates, repeated references, and read-time circular-reference errors.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnsite - RampHardSoftware EngineerTrack Users From Flight History
This question evaluates competency in processing and aggregating temporal event data, including time-interval reasoning, counting/grouping per user, and designing efficient data structures and algorithms for large datasets.
Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical Screen - RampHardSoftware EngineerTraverse an HTTP Maze with Retry Handling
This problem tests BFS traversal skills combined with state management for handling intermittent network failures and API constraints.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnsiteBFSGraphAPI - RampHardSoftware EngineerWhat Project Are You Proudest Of?
This question evaluates a candidate's ability to demonstrate ownership, leadership, collaboration, technical contribution, problem-solving, and quantifiable impact from past projects.
Behavioral & LeadershipTechnical Screen - RapidSOSMediumSoftware EngineerDesign the Product Catalog for a Multi-Store Grocery Delivery Marketplace
A senior system design prompt reported from a RapidSOS loop: design the product catalog for a multi-store grocery delivery marketplace like Instacart. It tests modeling shared products versus per-store prices and availability, ingesting messy retailer feeds, store-scoped browse and search, caching, freshness and checkout consistency.
System DesignOther - Read.AiMediumSoftware EngineerCompare Sentences Using Transitive Synonym Groups
Compare two tokenized sentences using undirected, transitive synonym relationships. Sentence lengths and word positions must match, while a union-find or graph traversal groups chained synonyms and leaves unknown words equivalent only to themselves.
Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical Screen - RedditMediumSoftware EngineerDefend a Schema Decision Through a Real Technical Challenge
This question assesses a candidate's ability to articulate the trade-offs behind a core architectural decision, focusing on data modeling, scalability, and technical growth through post-launch reality.
Behavioral & LeadershipTechnical ScreenSystem DesignData ModelingDatabase Internals - RedditHardSoftware EngineerDesign Add, Overwrite, Undo, and Redo for Billing State
Design an in-memory billing account state manager that supports delta adjustments, absolute balance overwrites, and robust undo/redo capabilities.
Software Engineering FundamentalsTechnical ScreenObject-Oriented DesignStackState Machine - RedditHardSoftware EngineerDesign a feature store with CI/CD and reliability
This question evaluates a candidate's competencies in designing scalable, low-latency feature stores and end-to-end ML infrastructure, covering feature ingestion, point-in-time correctness, serving APIs, CI/CD for feature pipelines, metadata/lineage, and reliability engineering.
ML System DesignTechnical Screen - RedditEasySoftware EngineerDesign a game leaderboard service
This question tests the ability to design a high-throughput, low-latency leaderboard service capable of handling frequent rank updates and read requests for millions of active users.
System DesignOnsiteCachingDatabasesScalability - RedditMediumSoftware EngineerDesign comment-likelihood prediction platform
This question evaluates a candidate's competency in ML system design and infrastructure, covering feature pipelines, feature store strategy, training/serving consistency, online inference at high QPS, and production monitoring.
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