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Last updated: November 20, 2025

Software Engineering interviews at FAANG companies (Google, Meta, Amazon, Apple, Netflix) typically consist of 4-6 rounds including coding challenges, system design discussions, and behavioral questions. Expect to solve algorithmic problems on a whiteboard or coding platform, design scalable systems, and demonstrate your problem-solving approach. Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and system design principles is essential.

Common Software Engineer Interview Questions

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Key Software Engineer Interview Topics

Common topics and questions you might encounter in your Software Engineer interview

Data Structures & Algorithms

Arrays and Strings
Trees and Graphs
Dynamic Programming
Sorting and Searching
Hash Tables

System Design

Scalability
Database Design
API Design
Microservices
Distributed Systems

Software Development

Code Quality
Testing Strategies
Version Control
CI/CD
Design Patterns

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NewAI powered Interview Practice

Master Your Software Engineering Interview

Get personalized feedback on your coding skills, system design knowledge, and problem-solving capabilities

Software Engineer Interview Overview

Common Software Engineer Interview Questions

Implement a function to reverse a linked list. What's the time and space complexity?

Find the longest substring without repeating characters in a given string.

Design a data structure that supports insert, delete, and getRandom operations in O(1) time.

Given a binary tree, write a function to determine if it's a valid binary search tree.

Implement an LRU (Least Recently Used) cache with O(1) get and put operations.

Find the median of two sorted arrays in O(log(min(m,n))) time.

Implement a trie (prefix tree) and explain its use cases.

Given an array of intervals, merge all overlapping intervals.

Design an algorithm to serialize and deserialize a binary tree.

Find the kth largest element in an unsorted array.

Implement a function to detect a cycle in a linked list.

Given a string containing digits, return all possible letter combinations that the number could represent (phone keypad).

Design a URL shortening service like bit.ly. How would you handle high traffic?

How would you design a distributed cache system?

Design a scalable notification system that can handle push notifications, emails, and SMS.

Explain how you would design the backend for a real-time chat application like WhatsApp.

Design a rate limiter for an API that can handle distributed systems.

How would you design a system to handle file uploads and processing at scale?

Design a search autocomplete system like Google's search suggestions.

Explain how you would design a logging and monitoring system for microservices.

Design a parking lot management system with real-time availability tracking.

How would you design a video streaming service like Netflix?

Explain the SOLID principles and give examples of how you've applied them.

What's your approach to writing unit tests? How do you decide what to test?

How do you handle database migrations in a production environment with zero downtime?

Explain your Git workflow and how you handle merge conflicts in a team.

What strategies do you use to ensure code quality in a fast-paced development environment?

How would you refactor a monolithic application into microservices?

Explain the CI/CD pipeline you would set up for a new project.

How do you approach technical debt? When do you address it vs when do you defer it?

Your API is responding slowly. Walk me through how you would diagnose and fix the issue.

How would you optimize a SQL query that's taking too long to execute?

Explain how garbage collection works and how you would tune it for a high-traffic application.

How would you reduce the memory footprint of an application that's consuming too much RAM?

What techniques would you use to improve frontend performance and reduce page load time?

How do you protect an API from common security vulnerabilities?

Explain how you would implement secure password storage and authentication.

How would you secure sensitive data in a database and during transmission?

Tell me about a time you had to debug a complex production issue under pressure.

Describe a situation where you disagreed with a technical decision. How did you handle it?

How do you stay current with new technologies and programming languages?

Tell me about a time you had to make a trade-off between perfect code and shipping quickly.

Describe your most challenging technical project. What made it difficult and how did you overcome obstacles?

How do you approach learning a new codebase or technology stack?

[Google] Implement an algorithm to find all anagrams of a word in a large dictionary. How would you optimize for Google-scale data?

[Google] Design Google's infrastructure for serving search results with millisecond latency.

[Meta] How would you design the News Feed ranking algorithm for Facebook?

[Meta] Implement a function to detect if a social network graph has any cycles.

[Amazon] Design the recommendation engine for Amazon's product suggestions.

[Amazon] Write code to find the lowest common ancestor of two nodes in a binary tree.