Software Engineering Interview Prep

Land your dream software engineering role at Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Apple, and other top companies. Learn from mock interviews, frameworks, and advice from senior candidates—practice data structures, algorithms, system design, people management, behavioral interviews, and more.

Taught by 10+ Engineering Leaders from Google, Meta, and more

Jacob SimonSoftware Engineer, Dropbox, Exponent Co-founder

Neamah H.ML Engineer, Meta

Angelica C.ML Engineer, Google

Neeraj GuptaEngineering Manager, eBay

Hozefa JodiawallaEngineering Manager, Meta, Maven Clinic

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4 courses

50 hours

Software Engineering Introduction

5 lessons

1 video

This course covers how software engineering interviews work, with lessons on the general SWE loop, a guide to software engineering levels, and tips for success.

Welcome to Exponent's Software Engineering Interview Prep Course!Free

The Software Engineering Interview Loop

Coding Interviews at AI CompaniesFree

Bonus: Google's SWE Interview Loop

Software Engineering Levels

Software Engineering Coding Questions

15 modules

116 lessons

26 videos

Review fundamental SWE concepts to help you tackle programming problems with confidence. Master the key data structures and algorithms in a variety of real coding questions and expert videos.

Tips for Acing Technical Coding Interviews

Choosing the Right Language for Your Technical Interview

Practice: Move Zeros to End of ArrayFreeEasy

Practice: Remove Duplicates in StringFreeMedium

Practice: Contiguous Subarray SumFreeHard

How to Prep for a Coding Interview FastFree

Arrays, Two Pointers, Stacks, and Sliding WindowFree

Binary Search, Heaps, and IntervalsFree

Linked Lists, Trees, and TriesFree

Backtracking, Graphs, and DPFree

How to Answer Any Coding Interview QuestionFree

Understanding Big O Notation

Analyzing Time Complexity

Analyzing Space Complexity

Optimizing Your Algorithms

Introduction to Coding PatternsFree

Move Zeros to End of ArrayFreeEasy

Three SumMedium

Merge IntervalsMedium

Group AnagramsMedium

Product of Array Except SelfMedium

Copy a Spiral MatrixMedium

Maximum Subarray SumMedium

Container with Most WaterMedium

Task SchedulerMedium

Trap Rain WaterHard

Contiguous Subarray SumFreeHard

Hash Tables

Maximum ProfitFreeEasy

Difference of ArraysEasy

Smallest Missing IntegerEasy

Find the DuplicatesEasy

K-Messed Array SortMedium

Rotations in Circularly Sorted ArrayMedium

Koko Eating BananasMedium

Find the Peak ElementMedium

Most Common WordsFreeEasy

Valid PalindromeEasy

Validate IP AddressMedium

Decrypt MessageMedium

Minimum Window SubstringMedium

Serialize and Deserialize StringsMedium

Longest Substring Without RepeatMedium

Remove Duplicates in StringFreeMedium

Longest Palindromic SubstringMedium

Graphs

Graph Search

Degrees of FriendshipFreeEasy

Sentence SimilarityMedium

Number of IslandsMedium

Rotting OrangesMedium

Course ScheduleMedium

Edit DistanceHard

Redundant ConnectionMedium

Trees

Balanced TreeMedium

Diameter of a TreeMedium

Validate Binary Search TreeMedium

Construct Binary TreeMedium

Implement TrieMedium

Lowest Common Ancestor of a Binary TreeMedium

Find Largest Smaller BST KeyFreeHard

BST Successor SearchFreeHard

Stacks

Queues

Min StackMedium

Reverse a SentenceEasy

Valid ParenthesesEasy

Daily TemperaturesMedium

Shortest Cell PathMedium

Conversion RatiosHard

Linked Lists

Reverse Linked ListEasy

Linked List CycleEasy

Merge Sort Doubly Linked ListMedium

Merge Linked ListsHard

LRU CacheHard

Heaps

Find Largest NumbersMedium

Buy and Sell StockMedium

Find Median from Data StreamHard

Recursion

Fibonacci NumbersEasy

Generate ParenthesesMedium

SubsetsMedium

Sales PathMedium

Flatten a DictionaryMedium

Build a CalculatorFreeMedium

PermutationsMedium

Combination SumMedium

Implement Promise.all()Medium

Sudoku SolverHard

Build a Basic Regex ParserHard

Dynamic Programming

Climbing StairsEasy

Prime NumbersFreeMedium

Knapsack ProblemMedium

List the Difference Between Two StringsMedium

Target SumMedium

Coin ChangeMedium

Partition Equal Subset SumMedium

DNA SequenceHard

Unique PathsMedium

System Design Interviews

10 modules

51 lessons

33 videos

Learn how to answer system design questions with in-depth video examples and lessons that teach the fundamental concepts of scalable systems. Put your knowledge to the test with our self-guided exercises, or watch how engineers and managers answer these questions themselves.

Introduction to the System Design InterviewFree

How to Answer System Design Interview Questions

System Design Principles

Rubric for System Design Interviews

System Design Glossary

Top Engineering Blogs

Web Protocol Questions

Asynchronous Processing

Caching

Encryption

Authentication and Authorization

Cloud Architecture

CDNs

Design Facebook MessengerFree

Design a Metrics and Logging Service

Design Dropbox

Design App that Downloads User Data

Design an Application Performance Monitoring System

Design a Parking Garage

Design the Payment System for the Amazon Kindle

Design a Hotel Booking Service

Design Zillow

Design a Vending Machine

Design Ticketmaster

Design a Key Value Store

Design a Rate Limiter

Design a Distributed Message Queue

Design a URL Shortener

Design Typeahead for Search Box

Design a Distributed LRU Cache

Behavioral Interviews: A Practical Guide for Engineers

5 modules

27 lessons

18 videos

10 hours

Get offers at the level you deserve. Prep for senior+ behavioral interviews at FAANG and Tier-1 companies. Made with staff and principal engineers from Meta, Netflix, Google, and more. Avoid downleveling, elevate past projects, and stop sounding like a robot.

Welcome to Behavioral Interviewing for EngineersFree

Introduction to Engineering Behavioral InterviewsFree

Avoiding Downleveling

Approaching the 3 Question Types

Elevating Your Past Projects

Habits of High-Performing Candidates

Be Seen as a Senior Engineer (Part 1: Mock Interview)

Be Seen as a Senior Engineer (Part 2: Analysis)

Why Engineers Fail Interviews

The Question Beneath the Question

Measuring Culture Fit

Demonstrating Impact

Introducing Yourself: Do's and Don'ts

"Why Our Company?"

Prevent Instant Rejection

Know the Rules So You Can Break ThemFree

Types of Interviewers

Sharing the Optimal Level of Detail

Stop Sounding Like a RobotFree

Reversing a Downlevel OfferFree

Be Seen as a Staff+ Engineer (Part 1)

Be Seen as a Staff+ Engineer (Part 2: Analysis)

Demonstrating Ownership (Part 1)

Demonstrating Ownership (Part 2: Analysis)

Do You Meet the Senior+ Bar? (Part 1)

Do You Meet the Senior+ Bar? (Part 2: Analysis)

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Access all our company interview guides We'll walk you step-by-step through every part of the interview process, from the recruiting phone screen through the technical screen.

Join our members-only Slack community Connect with your peers in our 25,000-member strong Slack community. Ask questions, practice interviews, and make connections at top tech companies.

Mock interviews with AI and peers Practice real interview questions with unlimited mock interviews, including early access to our new AI interviewer.

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Full access to our PM interview course and 100+ other interview prep courses and modules.

Hundreds of real PM interview questions, answers, and walkthroughs

Self-paced video lessons with expert interview answer frameworks

Access to PM interview rubrics and sample answers for common interview types

Unlimited access to peer-to-peer mock interviews for product sense, behavioral, and more.

Access to AI tools for mock interview feedback

A complete library of company-specific PM interview guides

Membership in our private Slack community
: The Exponent Slack Channel is a private community of thousands of other Exponent members. Our Slack Channel has relevant, fresh information on acing interviews and recent interview experiences shared by candidates like yourself.
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