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# 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.

Top SWE interview questions and answers

Coding exercises and feedback

System design fundamentals and examples

Full-length mock interviews & walkthroughs

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Navneet G.Engineering Manager, Meta

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Ahmed KhaledSoftware Engineer, Google

Chance MillerSoftware Engineer, AWS, Google, Microsoft

Michael XuSoftware Engineer, Google

David SuFull Stack Engineer, Viewabo

Dallon AsnesSenior Software Engineer, Uber

Simon AyzmanTech Lead Manager, Monarch, ex-Google

Daniel GriffinCo-founder & Sr. Engineering Manager, MainStreet

Timothy LuongEngineering Manager, Scale AI

Rohan MalhotraSoftware Engineer , Flipkart

Thomas KimSenior Software Engineer, Instacart

Aman Gupta Software Engineer, Google

Lewin GanStaff Software Engineer, Forethought

Ravi KantSenior Software Engineer, Apple

Muhammad Hussein Solutions Architect, Dropbox

Rahul ThathooDirector of Engineering, Square

Jeff Pan Founder, Product Manager, Booking.com

Christina NaumavoTechnical Program Manager, Google

Vidal Graupera Engineering Manager, LinkedIn

Josh LopezSolution Engineer, Salesforce, Twilio, Segment

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

Kevin WeiSenior Product Manager, Amazon

Stephen CognettaProduct Manager, Google, Exponent Co-founder

Abhishek KumarEngineering Manager, Google

Jimmy WuML Engineer, Amazon

Adam SchneiderTechnical Program Manager, Activision, Dogdata

Andreas DiasStaff Software Engineer, Team Lead, Modern Health

Karan Pratap SinghSoftware Engineer, Curebase

Kay TomaProduct Manager, TikTok, Clubhouse

Ali Nawaz Haider RizviSoftware Engineer, Amazon

Navneet G.Engineering Manager, Meta

Greg DePaulAI Researcher, PatternAI, Meta

Ahmed KhaledSoftware Engineer, Google

Chance MillerSoftware Engineer, AWS, Google, Microsoft

Michael XuSoftware Engineer, Google

David SuFull Stack Engineer, Viewabo

Dallon AsnesSenior Software Engineer, Uber

Simon AyzmanTech Lead Manager, Monarch, ex-Google

Daniel GriffinCo-founder & Sr. Engineering Manager, MainStreet

Timothy LuongEngineering Manager, Scale AI

Rohan MalhotraSoftware Engineer , Flipkart

Thomas KimSenior Software Engineer, Instacart

Aman Gupta Software Engineer, Google

Lewin GanStaff Software Engineer, Forethought

Ravi KantSenior Software Engineer, Apple

Muhammad Hussein Solutions Architect, Dropbox

Rahul ThathooDirector of Engineering, Square

Jeff Pan Founder, Product Manager, Booking.com

Christina NaumavoTechnical Program Manager, Google

Vidal Graupera Engineering Manager, LinkedIn

Josh LopezSolution Engineer, Salesforce, Twilio, Segment

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What you'll find in this course

5 courses

83 videos

59 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!\\
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Free](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-intro/swe-welcome/index.html) [The Software Engineering Interview Loop](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-intro/swe-loop/index.html) [Coding Interviews at AI Companies\\
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Bonus: Google's SWE Interview Loop](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-intro/swe-interview-google/index.html) [Software Engineering Levels](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-intro/swe-levels/index.html)

### Software Engineering Coding Questions

15 modules

118 lessons

28 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.

Overview

6 lessons·5 videos

[Tips for Acing Technical Coding Interviews](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/swe-tips/index.html) \\
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Choosing the Right Language for Your Technical Interview](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/choosing-the-right-language-for-your-technical-interview/index.html) \\
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Practice: Move Zeros to End of Array\\
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Practice: Remove Duplicates in String\\
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FreeMedium](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/remove-duplicates-in-string-practice/index.html) \\
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Practice: Contiguous Subarray Sum\\
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FreeHard](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/contiguous-subarray-sum-practice/index.html) \\
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Bonus: AI-Assisted Coding Round at Meta](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/bonus-ai-assisted-coding-round-at-meta/index.html)

Fast Track

6 lessons·5 hr

In a rush? This is your minimum viable prep.

[How to Prep for a Coding Interview Fast\\
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Free](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/prep-coding-interview-fast/index.html) [Arrays, Two Pointers, Stacks, and Sliding Window\\
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Free](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/arrays-two-pointers-stacks-and-sliding-window/index.html) [Binary Search, Heaps, and Intervals\\
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Free](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/binary-search-heaps-and-intervals/index.html) [Linked Lists, Trees, and Tries\\
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Free](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/linked-lists-trees-and-tries/index.html) [Backtracking, Graphs, and DP\\
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Free](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/backtracking-graphs-dp/index.html) [How to Answer Any Coding Interview Question\\
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Free](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/how-to-answer-any-coding-interview-question/index.html)

Time & Space Complexity

4 lessons

[Understanding Big O Notation](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/understanding-big-o-notation/index.html) [Analyzing Time Complexity](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/analyzing-time-complexity/index.html) [Analyzing Space Complexity](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/analyzing-space-complexity/index.html) [Optimizing Your Algorithms](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/optimizing-your-algorithms/index.html)

Coding Patterns

8 lessons

[Introduction to Coding Patterns\\
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Free](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/introduction-to-coding-patterns/index.html) [Two Pointer\\
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Free](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/two-pointer/index.html) [Prefix Sum](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/prefix-sum/index.html) [Tortoise & Hare](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/tortoise-and-hare/index.html) [Sliding Window](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/sliding-window/index.html) [Two Pass](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/two-pass/index.html) [Bit Manipulation](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/bit-manipulation/index.html) [Cyclic Sort](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/cyclic-sort/index.html)

Arrays

12 lessons·5 videos

[Arrays\\
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Move Zeros to End of Array\\
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Three Sum\\
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Medium](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/three-sum/index.html) \\
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Merge Intervals\\
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Product of Array Except Self\\
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Medium](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/product-of-array-except-self/index.html) [Copy a Spiral Matrix\\
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Medium](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/matrix-spiral-copy/index.html) [Maximum Subarray Sum\\
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Medium](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/maximum-subarray-sum/index.html) [Container with Most Water\\
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Medium](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/container-with-most-water/index.html) [Task Scheduler\\
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Medium](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/task-scheduler/index.html) [Trap Rain Water\\
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Hard](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/trap-rain-water/index.html) \\
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Contiguous Subarray Sum\\
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FreeHard](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/contiguous-subarray-sum/index.html)

Hash Tables

6 lessons·1 video

[Hash Tables](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/hash-tables/index.html) [Maximum Profit\\
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FreeEasy](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/maximum-profit/index.html) [Difference of Arrays\\
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Easy](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/difference-of-arrays/index.html) [Smallest Missing Integer\\
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Easy](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/smallest-missing-integer/index.html) [Two Sum\\
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Easy](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/two-sum/index.html) \\
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Boggle Board\\
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Medium](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/boggle-board/index.html)

Searching & Sorting

8 lessons·1 video

[Sorting Algorithms](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/sorting-algorithms/index.html) [Binary Search](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/binary-search/index.html) [Number Finder\\
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Easy](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/number-finder/index.html) [Find the Duplicates\\
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Easy](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/find-the-duplicates/index.html) [K-Messed Array Sort\\
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Medium](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/k-messed-array-sort/index.html) \\
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Rotations in Circularly Sorted Array\\
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Medium](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/rotations-in-circularly-sorted-array/index.html) [Koko Eating Bananas\\
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Medium](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/koko-eating-bananas/index.html) [Find the Peak Element\\
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Medium](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/find-the-peak-element/index.html)

String Manipulation

9 lessons·3 videos

[Most Common Words\\
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FreeEasy](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/most-common-words/index.html) [Valid Palindrome\\
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Easy](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/valid-palindrome/index.html) [Validate IP Address\\
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Medium](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/validate-ip-address/index.html) [Decrypt Message\\
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Medium](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/decrypt-message/index.html) \\
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Minimum Window Substring\\
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Serialize and Deserialize Strings\\
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Remove Duplicates in String\\
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FreeMedium](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/remove-duplicates-in-string/index.html) [Longest Palindromic Substring\\
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Graphs

9 lessons·3 videos

[Graphs](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/graphs/index.html) [Graph Search](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/graph-search/index.html) [Degrees of Friendship\\
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Sentence Similarity\\
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Medium](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/sentence-similarity/index.html) \\
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Number of Islands\\
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Medium](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/number-islands/index.html) [Rotting Oranges\\
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Medium](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/rotting-oranges/index.html) [Course Schedule\\
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Medium](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/course-schedule/index.html) \\
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Edit Distance\\
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Medium](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/redundant-connection/index.html)

Trees

9 lessons·1 video

[Trees](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/trees/index.html) [Balanced Tree\\
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Diameter of a Tree\\
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Medium](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/diameter-tree/index.html) [Validate Binary Search Tree\\
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Medium](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/validate-binary-search-tree/index.html) [Construct Binary Tree\\
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Medium](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/construct-binary-tree/index.html) [Implement Trie\\
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Medium](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/implement-trie/index.html) [Lowest Common Ancestor of a Binary Tree\\
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Medium](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/lowest-common-ancestor-of-a-binary-tree/index.html) [Find Largest Smaller BST Key\\
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FreeHard](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/largest-smaller-bst-key/index.html) [BST Successor Search\\
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FreeHard](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/bst-successor-search/index.html)

Stacks & Queues

8 lessons·1 video

[Stacks](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/stacks/index.html) [Queues](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/queues/index.html) [Min Stack\\
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Medium](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/min-stack/index.html) [Reverse a Sentence\\
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Easy](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/sentence-reverse/index.html) [Valid Parentheses\\
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Easy](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/valid-parentheses/index.html) [Daily Temperatures\\
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Medium](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/daily-temperatures/index.html) [Shortest Cell Path\\
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Conversion Ratios\\
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Linked Lists

6 lessons·2 videos

[Linked Lists](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/linked-lists/index.html) [Reverse Linked List\\
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Easy](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/reverse-linked-list/index.html) [Linked List Cycle\\
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Merge Sort Doubly Linked List\\
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Medium](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/merge-sort-doubly-linked-list/index.html) \\
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Merge Linked Lists\\
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Hard](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/merge-linked-lists/index.html) [LRU Cache\\
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Hard](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/lru-cache/index.html)

Heaps

5 lessons·2 videos

[Heaps](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/heaps/index.html) [Find Largest Numbers\\
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Medium](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/largest-numbers/index.html) \\
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Buy and Sell Stock\\
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Medium](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/buy-sell-stock/index.html) [Find Median from Data Stream\\
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Hard](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/find-median-from-data-stream/index.html) \\
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Meta Onsite Coding Round (Kth Largest Element in an Array and Minimum Remove to Make Valid Parentheses)](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/meta-onsite-coding-round-kth-largest-element-in-an-array-and-minimum-remove-to-make-valid-parentheses/index.html)

Recursion & Backtracking

12 lessons·2 videos

[Recursion](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/recursion/index.html) [Fibonacci Numbers\\
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Easy](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/fibonacci/index.html) \\
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Generate Parentheses\\
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Medium](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/generate-parentheses/index.html) [Subsets\\
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Medium](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/subsets/index.html) [Sales Path\\
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Medium](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/sales-path/index.html) [Flatten a Dictionary\\
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Medium](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/flatten-a-dictionary/index.html) [Build a Calculator\\
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FreeMedium](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/calculator/index.html) [Permutations\\
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Medium](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/permutations/index.html) [Combination Sum\\
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Medium](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/combination-sum/index.html) \\
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Implement Promise.all()\\
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Medium](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/implement-promiseall/index.html) [Sudoku Solver\\
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Hard](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/sudoku-solver/index.html) [Build a Basic Regex Parser\\
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Hard](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/basic-regex-parser/index.html)

Dynamic Programming

10 lessons·2 videos

[Dynamic Programming](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/dynamic-programming/index.html) [Climbing Stairs\\
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Easy](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/climbing-stairs/index.html) [Prime Numbers\\
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FreeMedium](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/prime-numbers/index.html) \\
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Knapsack Problem\\
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Medium](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/knapsack-problem/index.html) [List the Difference Between Two Strings\\
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Medium](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/diff-between-two-strings/index.html) \\
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Target Sum\\
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Medium](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/target-sum/index.html) [Coin Change\\
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Medium](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/coin-change/index.html) [Partition Equal Subset Sum\\
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Medium](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/partition-equal-subset-sum/index.html) [DNA Sequence\\
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Hard](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/dna-sequence/index.html) [Unique Paths\\
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Medium](/content/courses/software-engineering/swe-practice/unique-paths/index.html)

### Practical Coding Interviews

4 modules

13 lessons

3 videos

This course covers new practical and AI-assisted coding interviews, where engineers are expected to build, extend, and debug realistic codebases and work alongside coding agents.

Overview

2 lessons·1 video

[Introduction\\
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Free](/content/courses/software-engineering/practical-coding-interviews/intro-practical-coding/index.html) \\
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Bonus: AI-Assisted Coding Round at Meta](/content/courses/software-engineering/practical-coding-interviews/bonus-ai-assisted-coding-round-at-meta/index.html)

Building New Projects

1 new4 lessons·1 video

[Building New Projects](/content/courses/software-engineering/practical-coding-interviews/building-new-projects/index.html) \\
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Web Crawler](/content/courses/software-engineering/practical-coding-interviews/web-crawler-project/index.html) [Parse CSV Transactions\\
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New](/content/courses/software-engineering/practical-coding-interviews/parse-csv-transactions/index.html) [Find Duplicate Files](/content/courses/software-engineering/practical-coding-interviews/find-duplicate-files/index.html)

Extending Codebases

3 new4 lessons·1 video

[Extending Codebases](/content/courses/software-engineering/practical-coding-interviews/extending-existing-codebases/index.html) [Build a Rate Limiter\\
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New](/content/courses/software-engineering/practical-coding-interviews/add-rate-limiter/index.html) \\
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Key-Value Store with TTL\\
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New](/content/courses/software-engineering/practical-coding-interviews/kv-store-ttl/index.html) [Movie Recommendation API\\
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New](/content/courses/software-engineering/practical-coding-interviews/movie-recommendations/index.html)

Debugging

2 new3 lessons

[Debugging Interviews](/content/courses/software-engineering/practical-coding-interviews/debugging-interviews/index.html) [Debug API Errors in Production\\
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New](/content/courses/software-engineering/practical-coding-interviews/debug-api-errors/index.html) [Debug Loyalty Points System\\
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New](/content/courses/software-engineering/practical-coding-interviews/debug-loyalty-system/index.html)

### System Design Interviews

11 modules

71 lessons

32 videos

Learn how to answer the latest system design questions across product, infrastructure, and AI domains. Features in-depth video examples, written breakdowns, and helpful reference patterns. Watch senior engineers and managers answer these questions in mock interview videos.

Overview

5 lessons·1 video

[Introduction to the System Design Interview\\
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Free](/content/courses/software-engineering/system-design-interviews/system-design-interview/index.html) \\
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How to Answer System Design Interview Questions](/content/courses/software-engineering/system-design-interviews/intro-architecture/index.html) [The Must-Know System Design Patterns\\
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Free](/content/courses/software-engineering/system-design-interviews/system-design-patterns/index.html) [Rubric for System Design Interviews](/content/courses/software-engineering/system-design-interviews/system-design-interview-rubric/index.html) [How to Use a Whiteboard in System Design Interviews\\
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Free](/content/courses/software-engineering/system-design-interviews/whiteboarding/index.html)

Read-Heavy Systems

6 lessons·4 videos

[Read-Heavy Systems](/content/courses/software-engineering/system-design-interviews/read-heavy-systems/index.html) \\
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Design a URL Shortener](/content/courses/software-engineering/system-design-interviews/url-shortener/index.html) \\
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Design Typeahead for Search Box](/content/courses/software-engineering/system-design-interviews/design-typeahead-search-box/index.html) \\
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Design Instagram](/content/courses/software-engineering/system-design-interviews/mock-interview-design-instagram/index.html) \\
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Design Twitter](/content/courses/software-engineering/system-design-interviews/design-twitter-video/index.html) [Design the Reddit Homepage](/content/courses/software-engineering/system-design-interviews/design-reddit-homepage/index.html)

Event-Driven Systems

4 lessons·3 videos

[Event-Driven and Pub/Sub Architectures](/content/courses/software-engineering/system-design-interviews/event-driven-pubsub/index.html) \\
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Design a Distributed Message Queue](/content/courses/software-engineering/system-design-interviews/mock-interview-design-a-distributed-message-queue/index.html) \\
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Design Webhook Delivery](/content/courses/software-engineering/system-design-interviews/design-webhook-delivery/index.html) \\
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Async Jobs and Workers

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Design a Web Crawler](/content/courses/software-engineering/system-design-interviews/design-web-crawler/index.html) [Design a Job Scheduler](/content/courses/software-engineering/system-design-interviews/design-job-scheduler/index.html) \\
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Design App that Downloads User Data](/content/courses/software-engineering/system-design-interviews/design-app-downloads-user-data/index.html)

Distributed Data Storage & Partitioning

6 lessons·4 videos

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Design a Key Value Store](/content/courses/software-engineering/system-design-interviews/design-key-value-store/index.html) \\
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Design a Rate Limiter](/content/courses/software-engineering/system-design-interviews/design-rate-limiter/index.html) \\
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Design Dropbox](/content/courses/software-engineering/system-design-interviews/design-dropbox/index.html) [Design Distributed Storage (S3)](/content/courses/software-engineering/system-design-interviews/design-distributed-storage/index.html)

Transactional Systems

4 lessons·3 videos

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Design Ticketmaster](/content/courses/software-engineering/system-design-interviews/design-ticketmaster/index.html) \\
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Design a Hotel Booking System](/content/courses/software-engineering/system-design-interviews/mock-interview-design-a-hotel-booking-service/index.html) \\
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Design a Parking Garage](/content/courses/software-engineering/system-design-interviews/design-parking-garage/index.html)

Batch Processing and Data Pipelines

6 lessons·4 videos

[Batch Processing and Data Pipelines](/content/courses/software-engineering/system-design-interviews/batch-data-pipelines/index.html) \\
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Design a Metrics and Logging Service](/content/courses/software-engineering/system-design-interviews/design-metrics-logging/index.html) \\
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Design an Application Performance Monitoring System](/content/courses/software-engineering/system-design-interviews/design-application-performance-monitoring-system/index.html) [Design a Document Processing Pipeline](/content/courses/software-engineering/system-design-interviews/design-document-pipeline/index.html) \\
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Design Zillow](/content/courses/software-engineering/system-design-interviews/design-zillow/index.html) \\
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Design a Weather App](/content/courses/software-engineering/system-design-interviews/design-weather-app/index.html)

Real-Time and Collaborative Systems

6 lessons·4 videos

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Design Facebook Messenger](/content/courses/software-engineering/system-design-interviews/facebook-messenger-whatsapp/index.html) \\
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Design WhatsApp](/content/courses/software-engineering/system-design-interviews/design-whatsapp/index.html) \\
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Design Chess.com](/content/courses/software-engineering/system-design-interviews/design-chess-com/index.html) [Design Slack](/content/courses/software-engineering/system-design-interviews/design-slack/index.html) \\
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Design Google Docs](/content/courses/software-engineering/system-design-interviews/design-google-docs/index.html)

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5 lessons·3 videos

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7 lessons·2 videos

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Design ChatGPT](/content/courses/software-engineering/system-design-interviews/design-chatgpt/index.html) [File Uploader for AI Chat App](/content/courses/software-engineering/system-design-interviews/file-uploader-ai-chat/index.html) [Design an LLM Query Batching System](/content/courses/software-engineering/system-design-interviews/design-llm-query-batching/index.html) [Design Claude Code](/content/courses/software-engineering/system-design-interviews/design-claude-code/index.html) [Design a Real-Time Voice AI](/content/courses/software-engineering/system-design-interviews/design-voice-ai/index.html)

Appendix: System Design Concepts

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### Behavioral Interviews: A Practical Guide for Engineers

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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.

Fast Track (Start Here)

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Welcome to Behavioral Interviewing for Engineers\\
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Introduction to Engineering Behavioral Interviews\\
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Habits of High-Performing Candidates](/content/courses/software-engineering/eng-behavioral/standing-out-candidate/index.html) \\
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Be Seen as a Senior Engineer (Part 1: Mock Interview)](/content/courses/software-engineering/eng-behavioral/behavioral-senior-engineer/index.html) \\
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Be Seen as a Senior Engineer (Part 2: Analysis)](/content/courses/software-engineering/eng-behavioral/analysis-senior-engineer/index.html)

Theory

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Avoid the most common mistakes. Discover what interviewers are actually searching for.

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Why Engineers Fail Interviews](/content/courses/software-engineering/eng-behavioral/why-engineers-fail-interviews/index.html) \\
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The Question Beneath the Question](/content/courses/software-engineering/eng-behavioral/question-beneath/index.html) [Measuring Culture Fit](/content/courses/software-engineering/eng-behavioral/measuring-culture-fit/index.html) [Demonstrating Impact](/content/courses/software-engineering/eng-behavioral/demonstrating-impact/index.html) \\
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Introducing Yourself: Do's and Don'ts](/content/courses/software-engineering/eng-behavioral/introducing-yourself-dos-donts/index.html) \\
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"Why Our Company?"](/content/courses/software-engineering/eng-behavioral/why-our-company/index.html) \\
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Prevent Instant Rejection](/content/courses/software-engineering/eng-behavioral/non-obvious-dealbreakers/index.html)

Tactics

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Execute these practical steps for success in "must know" scenarios.

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Mock Interviews & Analyses

7 lessons·7 videos·6 hr

Demystify the most common behavioral questions with real examples. Peel back the curtain on how interviewers think with in-depth analyses.

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Be Seen as a Staff+ Engineer (Part 1)](/content/courses/software-engineering/eng-behavioral/behavioral-staff-plus-engineer/index.html) \\
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Be Seen as a Staff+ Engineer (Part 2: Analysis)](/content/courses/software-engineering/eng-behavioral/analysis-staff-plus-engineer/index.html) \\
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Do You Meet the Senior+ Bar? (Part 1)](/content/courses/software-engineering/eng-behavioral/senior-plus-faang/index.html) \\
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Do You Meet the Senior+ Bar? (Part 2: Analysis)](/content/courses/software-engineering/eng-behavioral/analysis-senior-plus-faang/index.html) \\
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Meta Onsite Behavioral Round](/content/courses/software-engineering/eng-behavioral/meta-onsite-behavioral-round/index.html) \\
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Demonstrating Ownership (Part 1)](/content/courses/software-engineering/eng-behavioral/demonstrating-ownership/index.html) \\
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Demonstrating Ownership (Part 2: Analysis)](/content/courses/software-engineering/eng-behavioral/analysis-demonstrating-ownership/index.html)

Practice

1 lesson

Practice your skills. Create a cheatsheet for your next behavioral round.

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