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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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  • MetaHardData Scientist
    Resolve exclusion, learn fast, and manage conflict

    This question evaluates interpersonal leadership, cross-team collaboration, conflict resolution, rapid domain learning, stakeholder mapping, and the ability to quantify analytic trade-offs and impact within a data science context.

    Behavioral & LeadershipOnsite
  • MetaHardData Scientist
    Resolve teammate feeling unwelcome with measurable steps

    This question evaluates leadership competencies in managing psychological safety, conflict resolution, confidentiality, remote-team dynamics, evidence gathering, documentation, escalation, and outcome measurement.

    Behavioral & LeadershipOnsite
  • MetaHardSoftware Engineer
    Respond to Critical Feedback and Show the Change

    This question assesses a candidate's ability to handle constructive criticism professionally, their capacity for self-reflection, and their demonstrated commitment to measurable professional growth.

    Behavioral & LeadershipOnsiteBehavioralLeadershipGrowth Mindset
  • MetaMediumData Scientist
    Retrieve Ad Metrics and Rates for Last 7 Days

    This question evaluates proficiency in SQL-based data manipulation including joins, conditional aggregation, time-based filtering, and computation of advertising metrics such as impressions, clicks, CTR, and conversion rate.

    Data Manipulation (SQL/Python)Onsite
  • MetaMediumData Scientist
    Retrieve Top Five Ads by Conversions in 30 Days

    This question evaluates a candidate's competency in SQL data manipulation, specifically aggregating event data and applying time-window filters to produce ranked metrics.

    Data Manipulation (SQL/Python)Onsite
  • MetaMediumSoftware Engineer
    Return a Shortest Path Through a Binary Grid

    Implement breadth-first search on an 8-directional binary grid to find and reconstruct a deterministic shortest path from the top-left to the bottom-right cell.

    Coding & AlgorithmsOnsiteBFSGraphMatrix
  • MetaMediumSoftware Engineer
    Return all root-to-leaf path sums

    This question evaluates competency in binary tree traversal and path-state accumulation, focusing on the ability to compute sums along root-to-leaf paths while handling edge cases like empty trees and negative values.

    Coding & AlgorithmsOnsite
  • MetaMediumSoftware Engineer
    Return right and left side views of a tree

    This problem tests your ability to perform level-order traversal on a binary tree and manipulate the results to extract the boundary nodes.

    Coding & AlgorithmsOnsiteBinary TreeBFSDFS
  • MetaHardSoftware Engineer
    Return the Minimum-Sum Root-to-Leaf Path

    Tests tree traversal, path reconstruction, tie-breaking logic, and handling deeply skewed trees with up to 100,000 nodes without exceeding recursion depth limits.

    Coding & AlgorithmsOnsitebinary-treedfsstack
  • MetaMediumData Engineer
    Return top-3 content per category

    This question evaluates the ability to perform grouped top-k selection, deterministic tie-breaking and ordering, and to reason about algorithmic efficiency when manipulating structured datasets in the Data Manipulation (SQL/Python) domain for a Data Engineer role.

    Data Manipulation (SQL/Python)Onsite
  • MetaMediumData Scientist
    Run a clean A/B test for recommendations

    This question evaluates a data scientist's competency in experimental design, causal inference, and statistical power analysis for A/B tests, covering randomization unit choice, contamination prevention, metric and guardrail selection, clustering adjustments, and bias-control techniques.

    Analytics & ExperimentationOnsite
  • MetaMediumSoftware Engineer
    Scale a Cache or Rate Limiter Across Multiple Machines

    Tests your ability to design a horizontally scalable distributed rate limiter and caching layer, focusing on data partitioning, hot-key mitigation, failure modes, and consistency trade-offs.

    System DesignOnsitesystem-designdistributed-systemsrate-limiting
  • MetaMediumSoftware Engineer
    Select words to maximize unique characters

    This question evaluates understanding of combinatorial search and string manipulation, specifically the ability to reason about unique-character constraints, subset selection, and set-like representations.

    Coding & AlgorithmsOnsite
  • MetaHardMachine Learning Engineer
    Self-Attention: Implementation, Complexity, and Efficient Variants

    Tests a candidate's mathematical and practical grasp of scaled dot-product attention, its computational and memory bottlenecks, and modern algorithmic optimizations like FlashAttention and linear attention.

    Machine LearningOnsitetransformerattention-mechanismflashattention
  • MetaMediumSoftware Engineer
    Set up a Python interview environment

    This question evaluates proficiency in Python development environment setup, including dependency and virtual environment management, secure handling of environment variables for secrets, tooling for rapid feedback, reproducibility practices, and basic service scaffolding.

    Data Manipulation (SQL/Python)Onsite
  • MetaMediumSoftware Engineer
    Share different perspective from leadership feedback

    This question evaluates a software engineer's ability to receive and integrate leadership feedback, measuring competencies such as adaptability, self-awareness, communication, and accountability.

    Behavioral & LeadershipOnsite
  • MetaMediumData Scientist
    Size opportunity for new product line

    This question evaluates a data scientist's skills in financial opportunity sizing, sensitivity analysis, and experimental design by requiring quantitative modeling of impacted users, incremental orders, revenue, and gross profit for a proposed product line.

    Analytics & ExperimentationOnsite
  • MetaMediumSoftware Engineer
    Solve Array, Matrix, and Recommendation Problems

    This question evaluates algorithmic skills across array manipulation, grid pathfinding, and graph-based recommendation systems, testing competencies in in-place transformations, efficient traversal/search, and candidate ranking under constraints.

    Coding & AlgorithmsOnsite
  • MetaMediumSoftware Engineer
    Solve Matrix, Tree, Nested, LCA, Maze Tasks

    This set of tasks evaluates algorithm design and data structure competencies across matrix traversal, tree path-sum aggregation, nested-list depth weighting, lowest common ancestor discovery using parent pointers, and several rolling-maze reachability and shortest-path variants.

    Coding & AlgorithmsOnsite
  • MetaMediumSoftware Engineer
    Solve Maze and Suffix Problems

    This two-part question evaluates stateful graph traversal and shortest-path reasoning under key-and-door constraints, alongside efficient string-suffix matching and scalable data-structure design, testing competencies in state management, graph/search algorithms, string algorithms, and algorithmic optimization.

    Coding & AlgorithmsOnsite
  • MetaMediumSoftware Engineer
    Solve Parser, Trading, Tree, And Deck Tasks

    This question evaluates input validation and parsing for numeric literals, array-based algorithmic optimization for single-trade profit, tree traversal for extracting rightmost nodes per depth, and software design for a stateful card-deck with shuffle and testing.

    Coding & AlgorithmsOnsite
  • MetaMediumSoftware Engineer
    Solve Tree Diameter and Palindromic Counts

    This problem tests your ability to perform recursive depth-first searches on binary trees and efficient string manipulation to count palindromic subsequences or paths.

    Coding & AlgorithmsOnsiteTreesDFSString
  • MetaEasyMachine Learning Engineer
    Solve Tree Views, Columns, and Calculator

    This problem tests your ability to perform recursive binary tree traversals to extract horizontal and vertical views, followed by implementing a stack-based parser to handle mathematical expressions with standard order of operations.

    Coding & AlgorithmsOnsiteBinary TreesBFSStack
  • MetaMediumSoftware Engineer
    Solve a Key-Door Corridor Maze

    This problem tests your ability to model a search space beyond simple coordinate traversal by incorporating state-dependent constraints (keys) using Breadth-First Search.

    Coding & AlgorithmsOnsiteBFSBitmaskShortest Path
  • MetaMediumSoftware Engineer
    Solve binary tree, grid, and heap tasks

    Solve binary tree, grid, and heap tasks evaluates algorithm design, data structures, correctness, complexity, edge cases, and implementation details in a realistic interview setting. A strong answer states assumptions, handles edge cases, explains trade-offs, and shows how to validate the result clearly.

    Coding & AlgorithmsOnsite
  • MetaMediumSoftware Engineer
    Solve classic LeetCode problems

    This question evaluates proficiency with core data structures and algorithmic techniques including array selection and ordering, string pattern grouping, interval/rectangle merging, and binary search tree range queries.

    Coding & AlgorithmsOnsite
  • MetaMediumBackend Engineer
    Solve coding and AI-assisted tasks

    This problem tests your ability to manipulate tree structures with parent pointers and verify path validity under specific movement constraints.

    Coding & AlgorithmsOnsiteTreesData StructuresAlgorithms
  • MetaMediumSoftware Engineer
    Solve four algorithmic problems

    This multi-part question evaluates algorithmic problem-solving and data-structure proficiency across string processing (validating parentheses with minimal deletions), tree operations (lowest common ancestor using parent pointers), nested-structure traversal and accumulation (depth-weighted sum), and geometric selection/ordering (k closest points).

    Coding & AlgorithmsOnsite
  • MetaMediumSoftware Engineer
    Solve four data structure and algorithms tasks

    This set of tasks evaluates core algorithmic competencies such as tree traversal and level-order processing, data-structure design and counting maps, recursive subtree aggregation for statistical checks, and optimization/search techniques for partitioning problems, all within the Coding & Algorithms domain.

    Coding & AlgorithmsOnsite
  • MetaMediumSoftware Engineer
    Solve grid path and robot navigation

    This question evaluates proficiency in graph traversal and pathfinding, state representation for unknown environments, exploration and backtracking, and rigorous reasoning about correctness and time/space complexity.

    Coding & AlgorithmsOnsite