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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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- GoogleMediumSoftware EngineerIntervals with Exactly X Concurrent Meetings
Implement an algorithm to identify all maximal time intervals during which exactly X meetings overlap, using a sweep-line technique over half-open intervals.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnsitesweep-lineintervalssorting - GoogleMediumSoftware EngineerLargest-Area Rectangle From a Point Set When Sides Need Not Be Axis-Aligned
Given distinct integer points in the plane, return the largest area of a rectangle whose four corners are input points, where the rectangle may be rotated rather than aligned with the axes. It tests the geometric characterization of rectangles, grouping point pairs efficiently, and exact integer arithmetic.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnsite - GoogleMediumSoftware EngineerLead a Project Through Ambiguous Requirements
This question evaluates your ability to take ownership of ambiguous, loosely defined technical initiatives, structure unknown variables, validate assumptions through experiments, and pivot effectively based on emerging data.
Behavioral & LeadershipOnsiteBehavioralLeadershipAmbiguity - GoogleMediumSoftware EngineerLead a deep dive on your most complex project
This question evaluates a candidate's systems architecture and technical leadership skills, including design reasoning, trade-off analysis, incident management, and reflective learning.
Behavioral & LeadershipOnsite - GoogleMediumSoftware EngineerLeading an Engineering Team Back From Low Morale
A behavioral question for an engineering manager candidate about leading a team whose morale had dropped. It tests how the candidate reads the signals, diagnoses causes through one-on-ones and data, acts on causes inside and outside their control, communicates honestly, and shows that the team recovered.
Behavioral & LeadershipOnsite - GoogleMediumSoftware EngineerMaintain k-th largest in a stream
This question evaluates understanding of data structures and streaming algorithms for maintaining k-th order statistics under dynamic inserts, emphasizing time-space trade-offs and correct handling of duplicates.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnsite - GoogleMediumSoftware EngineerMaintain streaming median and loosemedian
This interview question evaluates algorithm design, data structures, correctness, complexity, edge cases, and implementation details in a realistic interview setting. A strong answer for Maintain streaming median and loosemedian states assumptions, handles edge cases, explains trade-offs, and shows how to validate the result clearly.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnsite - GoogleMediumSoftware EngineerManaging Delivery Dates When a Team Commitment Is at Risk
A behavioral question for an engineering manager on how they set, track and protect delivery dates, followed by a real case where a committed date was at risk. It tests early risk detection, weighing scope, staffing and date options, stakeholder communication, and protecting quality and team health.
Behavioral & LeadershipOnsite - GoogleMediumSoftware EngineerMatch Dictionary Words to a Swipe-Keyboard Gesture Path
A coding problem modeled on a swipe keyboard: given the ordered keys a finger passed over and a dictionary, return every word the gesture could spell. It tests precise handling of the start and end keys, doubled letters and duplicate words, and efficient matching of many dictionary words against one gesture path.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnsite - GoogleMediumSoftware EngineerMatch Tagged Problems to Skilled Programmers at Scale
Design a distributed matching platform that pairs incoming tagged tasks with skilled programmers using graph algorithms at scale.
System DesignOnsitesystem-designgraph-algorithmsdistributed-systems - GoogleMediumSoftware EngineerMaximize Boundary-Difference Subarray Sum
This question evaluates algorithmic problem-solving skills with emphasis on array processing, constrained subarray sums, and the design of time- and space-efficient algorithms within the Coding & Algorithms domain.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnsite - GoogleMediumSoftware EngineerMaximize coins collected by 3-step pieces
This question evaluates modeling and optimization of discrete state-space transitions under movement constraints, testing combinatorial reasoning, reachability, and resource-maximization competencies.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnsite - GoogleMediumSoftware EngineerMaximize the Equal Wood Segment Length
Tests the ability to solve an optimization problem by applying binary search over a monotonic search space (binary search on answer).
Coding & AlgorithmsOnsitebinary-searcharraysgreedy - GoogleHardSoftware EngineerMerge Two Named Trees: First Tree's Names and Order, Second Tree's Values
Merge two trees whose nodes carry a name, an integer value and an ordered list of children, keeping the first tree's names and child order while taking values from the second. Same-name children pair up by order of appearance and second-tree leftovers are appended, testing careful recursive construction from a rule-heavy specification.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnsite - GoogleMediumSoftware EngineerMinimize Direction Violations in a Directed Road Network
Find the minimum number of edge reversals needed to travel from a source node to a target node in a directed graph. Tests graph modeling (0-1 weighted edges), edge cases like parallel edges and disconnected components, and efficient shortest-path traversal.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnsiteGraphBFSShortest Path - GoogleMediumSoftware EngineerMinimum Cars for Rental Requests
Determine the minimum number of rental cars required to service a given list of booking requests with half-open time intervals.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnsiteintervalsheapgreedy - GoogleMediumSoftware EngineerMinimum Path Node Count with an Optional Broken Vertex
Find the minimum number of vertices on a path between two nodes in an unweighted graph while avoiding a designated broken vertex.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnsitegraphbfsshortest-path - GoogleMediumSoftware EngineerMost Active Users in a Live Communication Stream
This problem tests your ability to efficiently manage and rank real-time event counts using hash maps and balanced data structures or heaps, focusing on deduplication and stream processing.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnsiteHash MapsStream ProcessingData Structures - GoogleMediumSoftware EngineerOptimize 0/1 to bounded knapsack DP
This question evaluates mastery of dynamic programming for knapsack problems, focusing on state formulation, space-time optimization, and reconstructing optimal item sets.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnsite - GoogleMediumSoftware EngineerParse a Nested-List String and Compute Its Weighted Sum
Implement a parser that processes a string representation of a nested list and computes the depth-weighted sum of all non-negative integers contained within it.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnsiteString ParsingStackSimulation - GoogleMediumSoftware EngineerParse strings and find meeting slots
This question evaluates string parsing and data-extraction skills alongside set/array-based aggregation and algorithmic reasoning for calendar availability and time-window constraints.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnsite - GoogleMediumSoftware EngineerPredict the Most Frequent Next Word in Constant Time
Design and implement a next-word prediction class that builds transition frequencies from adjacent words in sequences and returns the most likely successor for a given word in average constant time.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnsiteHash TableDesignString - GoogleMediumSoftware EngineerProcess Sharded Login Logs
This problem tests your ability to design a robust data pipeline for processing sharded, potentially out-of-order login logs from a distributed system.
Software Engineering FundamentalsOnsiteDistributed SystemsStream ProcessingData Structures - GoogleMediumSoftware EngineerReason About an Endpoint-Only Interval Score
This problem tests the understanding of interval arithmetic properties and algorithmic implementation of selection logic in the presence of tied boundary indices.
Software Engineering FundamentalsOnsiteArraysMathOptimization - GoogleMediumSoftware EngineerResolve Product Disagreement and Balance Technical Debt
Tests your ability to navigate cross-functional conflict with product managers, make pragmatic trade-offs between urgent deadlines and long-term code health, and use data-driven influence to achieve alignment.
Behavioral & LeadershipOnsiteBehavioralCross-FunctionalTechnical Debt - GoogleHardSoftware EngineerResolve Templated CDN Asset Paths to Their Registered Handlers
Implement a resolver that registers CDN asset path templates containing placeholder segments and, given a concrete request path, returns the matching template's handler along with the captured placeholder values.
Software Engineering FundamentalsOnsitetriedata-structuresalgorithms - GoogleMediumSoftware EngineerRespond Constructively to Difficult Feedback
This question assesses the candidate's ability to maintain professional objectivity, analyze constructive criticism, and implement measurable behavioral changes.
Behavioral & LeadershipOnsiteBehavioralGrowth MindsetCommunication - GoogleMediumSoftware EngineerReturn Unique Three-Sum Value Triples
Return all unique value triples that reach a target using three distinct input positions, with canonical ordering despite duplicate values. Candidates are evaluated on duplicate control, overflow-safe sums, nonmutation, output-sensitive complexity, and careful boundary cases.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnsite - GoogleMediumSoftware EngineerReturn Words Matching a Typed Prefix
Practice a Google coding interview problem focused on return words matching a typed prefix. The prompt emphasizes edge cases, clean implementation, and verifiable test behavior without revealing the solution.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnsite - GoogleMediumSoftware EngineerReturn all binary search tree keys inside an inclusive range
Given a binary search tree in level-order form and an inclusive range of values, return every key in the tree that falls inside the range, in ascending order. Tests use of the search tree ordering, unbalanced trees, empty results and inclusive boundary handling.
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