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Asked at OpenAI • 6 months ago
Tell me about your day as a software engineer.
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Behavioral
Asked at Slack • a year ago
What is your favorite Slack feature?
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Behavioral
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Behavioral
Asked at Nvidia • 2 years ago
What are the differences between RAM and ROM?
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Concept
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Concept
Asked at Nvidia • 2 years ago
What are the differences between single core and multicore processors?
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Concept
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Asked at Nvidia • 6 months ago
Given arrays of varying lengths, how would you pad them efficiently?
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Coding
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Asked at Nvidia • 9 months ago
You have a distributed computing environment with limited resources and multiple projects. How would you prioritize and allocate those resources?
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Asked at Robinhood • 2 months ago
Design a highly distributed trading system.
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System Design
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System Design
Asked at Nvidia • 2 years ago
Describe your GPU programming experience.
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Concept
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Concept
Asked at LangChain • 6 months ago
Implement a SQL parser that converts raw SQL strings into programming objects or ORM primitives.
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Coding
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Coding
Asked at LangChain • 6 months ago
What's the difference between LangGraph and LangSmith?
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Technical
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Technical
Asked at OpenAI • 6 months ago
Tell me about a time you worked with another team.
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Asked at Meta • 5 months ago
Given meetings with different conflicts and rooms, find a schedule that works.
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Data Structures & Algorithms
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Data Structures & Algorithms
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Asked at Netflix • a month ago
Given an org chart tree, compute each employee's level, identify balanced employees, and build a histogram of employees by level.
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Data Structures & Algorithms
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Data Structures & Algorithms
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Asked at HP, Waymo • 3 months ago
Tell me about a time you mentored other engineers.
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Asked at Media.net • 9 months ago
Closest Subarray Sum to Target.
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Data Structures & Algorithms
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Data Structures & Algorithms
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Asked at Stripe • 2 months ago
Detect circular dependencies between fields in the CSV data.
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Data Structures & Algorithms
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Data Structures & Algorithms
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Asked at Amazon • 6 months ago
Solve an array problem where you are given two arrays and need to construct a new array by multiplying values across positions.
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Data Structures & Algorithms
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Data Structures & Algorithms
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Asked at Google • 9 months ago
Implement a function that processes a stream of interval data.
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Data Structures & Algorithms
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Data Structures & Algorithms
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Asked at Nvidia • 6 months ago
If GPU utilization is low during training, how would you debug and benchmark performance?
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Concept
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Asked at Netflix • a month ago
How would you design a frequency capping system?
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System Design
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System Design

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Top Software Engineer Interview Questions

Tell me about your day as a software engineer.

What is your favorite Slack feature?

What are the differences between RAM and ROM?

What are the differences between single core and multicore processors?

Given arrays of varying lengths, how would you pad them efficiently?

You have a distributed computing environment with limited resources and multiple projects. How would you prioritize and allocate those resources?

Design a highly distributed trading system.

Describe your GPU programming experience.

Implement a SQL parser that converts raw SQL strings into programming objects or ORM primitives.

What's the difference between LangGraph and LangSmith?

Tell me about a time you worked with another team.

Given meetings with different conflicts and rooms, find a schedule that works.

Given an org chart tree, compute each employee's level, identify balanced employees, and build a histogram of employees by level.

Tell me about a time you mentored other engineers.

Closest Subarray Sum to Target.

Detect circular dependencies between fields in the CSV data.

Solve an array problem where you are given two arrays and need to construct a new array by multiplying values across positions.

Implement a function that processes a stream of interval data.

If GPU utilization is low during training, how would you debug and benchmark performance?

How would you design a frequency capping system?

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