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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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- Capital OneMediumSoftware EngineerDesign a Credit Card System: Authorization, Fraud, Bureau Reports, Limit Increases
A system design question for a credit card platform covering customer login, real-time payment authorization with fraud checks, monthly credit bureau reporting, a spending overview, and instant credit limit increase decisions. It tests laying out entities, services and read and write paths before choosing deep dives.
System DesignTechnical Screen - Capital OneMediumSoftware EngineerDesign a transaction class for deposits/withdrawals
This problem tests your ability to design a robust, thread-safe class for managing bank account transactions, focusing on atomicity and data consistency.
Software Engineering FundamentalsTechnical ScreenConcurrencyObject-Oriented DesignThread-Safety - Capital OneMediumSoftware EngineerIn-Memory Banking System: Deposits, Transfers, Top-N Activity, Test Harness
An object-oriented coding exercise that builds an in-memory banking system in stages: creating accounts and deposits, transfers between accounts, and ranking the top N accounts by activity. It also tests writing a harness that runs string-array test commands, and confirming whether activity means operation count or amount moved.
Software Engineering FundamentalsTechnical Screen - Capital OneMediumSoftware EngineerMerchant-Locked Payment Codes: Trade-offs and a Buggy Checker
A three-part fintech case on merchant-locked, single-merchant payment codes: discuss their trade-offs for cardholder and issuer, hand-validate sample codes against a digit-position rule table, then find and fix three planted bugs in a flawed validator.
Software Engineering FundamentalsTechnical Screencase-interviewdebuggingvalidation-logic - Capital OneMediumSoftware EngineerRemove nodes with a given value
This problem tests your ability to manipulate singly linked lists, specifically handling edge cases like removing head nodes and reassigning pointers in a single pass.
Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical ScreenLinked ListPointersRecursion - Capital OneMediumSoftware EngineerSort Matrix Diagonals By Their Values
Tests matrix traversal along anti-diagonals, string formation, and custom multi-key sorting with deterministic tie-breaking.
Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical Screenmatrixsortingstrings - Capital OneMediumSoftware EngineerVirtual Card Numbers Case: Trade-offs, Payment Validation Rules, Debugging
A three-stage case interview on virtual credit card numbers. It covers the benefits and problems of virtual cards for cardholders and the issuer, a hand walkthrough that validates payments against digit-by-digit card number rules, and debugging messy validator code for inverted boolean operators and boundary errors.
Software Engineering FundamentalsTechnical Screen - CerebrasHardSoftware EngineerDesign a Multi-Channel Message Queue
This question evaluates understanding of data modeling for multi-tag messages, set-based subscription semantics, scalable system design, and algorithmic complexity for operations such as enqueue, dequeue, subscribe/unsubscribe, and intersection queries.
System DesignTechnical Screen - CerebrasMediumSoftware EngineerExplain Learning and Conflict Approaches
This question evaluates a candidate's ability to learn in ambiguous technical domains, manage disagreements with senior colleagues, and adopt efficient learning approaches—assessing adaptability, communication, prioritization, and leadership competencies.
Behavioral & LeadershipTechnical Screen - CerebrasMediumSoftware EngineerImplement Binary Search in C++
This question evaluates proficiency in implementing binary search in C++, focusing on iterative control flow, correct handling of not-found cases, boundary conditions, and understanding of algorithmic correctness.
Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical Screen - CerebrasMediumSoftware EngineerImplement and Optimize Vector Multiplication
This question evaluates a candidate's ability to implement vector–vector multiplication and to reason about performance optimizations and sparse data structures, assessing competencies in algorithm design, parallel computing, memory hierarchy, and numerical operations.
Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical Screen - ChalkMediumSoftware EngineerCompute rainwater accumulation on a height grid
Tests the ability to simulate 2D fluid accumulation using priority-queue-based graph traversal (similar to Dijkstra's algorithm) to track spilling boundaries.
Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical Screenheapbfsgraph - Character.AIMediumSoftware EngineerFind Shortest Covering Substring
This problem tests your ability to use the sliding window technique and hash maps to find the smallest window in a string that contains all characters of a target pattern.
Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical ScreenSliding WindowHash MapTwo Pointers - ChariotMediumSoftware EngineerExplore an HTTP Maze
This question evaluates the ability to integrate HTTP-based APIs with graph traversal and state management, covering concepts such as breadth-first exploration for shallow-first search, cycle avoidance, transient error handling, and key-lock resource constraints.
Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical Screen - Charta HealthMediumSoftware EngineerMake Token-Bucket Admission Safe Across Threads
Tests your ability to implement a thread-safe token bucket rate limiter with lazy refill, monotonic time tracking, and blocking admission control.
Software Engineering FundamentalsTechnical Screenconcurrencymultithreadingrate-limiting - Chicago Trading CompanyMediumSoftware EngineerBuild an Ordered Latest-Quote Container
Build an insertion-ordered container that stores only the latest quote for each stock symbol. Support expected O(1) push, pop, and size operations while updating bid and ask values without changing a symbol's original position and safely rejecting malformed commands.
Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical Screen - Chicago Trading CompanyMediumSoftware EngineerDescribe Growth, Mistakes, and Obstacles
This question assesses the candidate's ability to reflect on professional setbacks, demonstrate accountability, and translate constructive criticism into measurable skill growth.
Behavioral & LeadershipTechnical ScreenBehavioralAccountabilityMentorship - Chicago Trading CompanyMediumSoftware EngineerImplement a Constant-Time Simple Moving Average
Implement a fixed-window simple moving average with O(1) processing for every valid add and query. Maintain a rolling sum and bounded queue, average the samples available before the window fills, and return deterministic results for empty, malformed, or unknown operations.
Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical Screen - Chicago Trading CompanyMediumSoftware EngineerImplement a Unique Pointer and Vector
This problem tests your understanding of C++ RAII, move semantics, template metaprogramming, and manual memory management by requiring the implementation of a scoped unique-ownership pointer and a custom dynamic array container.
Software Engineering FundamentalsTechnical ScreenC++RAIIMemory Management - ChimeEasySoftware EngineerDesign load balancing, caching, and idempotent APIs
This question evaluates a candidate's competency in designing scalable, reliable backend architectures, specifically focusing on load balancing strategies, multi-layer caching, and idempotent API design.
System DesignTechnical Screen - ChimeEasySoftware EngineerExplain sync/async, Go concurrency, SQL vs NoSQL
This question evaluates understanding of execution models (synchronous vs asynchronous and blocking vs non-blocking), Go concurrency patterns (goroutines, channels versus shared-memory with locks), and database paradigms (SQL vs NoSQL) relevant to backend engineering.
Software Engineering FundamentalsTechnical Screen - ChimeMediumSoftware EngineerImplement single-tab browser history navigation
This question evaluates understanding of data structures, stateful API behavior, amortized time complexity, set membership tracking, and edge-case handling for implementing browser-like history navigation in the coding & algorithms domain.
Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical Screen - CircleHardSoftware EngineerImplement Recipe Storage CRUD
This question evaluates the ability to design and implement in-memory data structures and APIs for CRUD operations, covering skills such as ID generation and parsing, string handling for case-insensitive uniqueness constraints, data modeling, and preserving original value casing.
Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical Screen - CircleMediumSoftware EngineerIn-Memory Bank System With Top-N Activity Ranking and Expiring Pending Transfers
Implement an in-memory banking class in stages: create accounts, deposit and pay, rank the top n accounts by transaction activity, and support transfers that hold funds until the recipient accepts within a time window or they are refunded. Tests state modeling, validation, and timestamp-driven expiry.
Software Engineering FundamentalsTechnical Screen - CiscoHardSoftware EngineerFormalize a Minimum-Trip Transport Puzzle with Horses and Ladders
Model a horses-and-ladders transport puzzle by clarifying legal moves, tracking resource state, and proving a minimum-trip plan is optimal.
Statistics & MathTechnical Screen - CiscoHardSoftware EngineerImplement an LFU Cache
This problem tests your ability to design a data structure that supports O(1) insertions and lookups while managing cache eviction based on access frequency and recency.
Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical ScreenHash TableLinked ListDesign - CiscoEasySoftware EngineerLongest Substring Without Repeated Characters
This problem tests string manipulation, hash map usage, and the sliding window technique to find a specific substring based on unique character constraints.
Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical ScreenSliding WindowStringsHash Map - CiscoEasySoftware EngineerReason About C Pointer and Array Declarations
This question tests the ability to parse complex C declarations and understand memory layout, pointer arithmetic, and the differences between pointers and arrays.
Software Engineering FundamentalsTechnical ScreenCPointersMemory - CitadelMediumSoftware EngineerChoose 200 of a Million Records to Label, Improving on Uniform Random Sampling
Tests the ability to define data informativeness under extreme budget constraints (selecting 200 out of 1,000,000 records) and design a scalable, one-shot sampling strategy that outperforms uniform random sampling in coverage and diversity.
Statistics & MathTechnical ScreenActive LearningSamplingClustering - CitadelMediumSoftware EngineerCompute BBO and NBBO from order data
This question evaluates a candidate's skill in designing efficient data structures and algorithms for aggregating and querying order-book data, including computing best bid/ask prices and summing quantities at those prices.
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