Beginner-Friendly Interview Questions

Easy to medium difficulty problems perfect for interview preparation beginners.

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Total Problems

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Easy

55

Medium

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Hard

85%

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Most Common Topics

Array (38)String (20)Hash Table (17)Sorting (13)Two Pointers (12)Depth-First Search (11)Binary Search (10)Dynamic Programming (10)

Companies Asking These Questions

Meta (19)Microsoft (8)Oracle (8)DoorDash (6)Databricks (6)LinkedIn (6)

Problems in This Collection

#1EasyFrequency: 100%High Priority

Two Sum

Asked at Google

Array Hash Table

#1

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#3594MediumFrequency: 100%High Priority

Identify the Largest Outlier in an Array

Asked at Amazon

Array Hash Table Counting Enumeration

#2

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#3655MediumFrequency: 100%High Priority

Digit Operations to Make Two Integers Equal

Asked at Microsoft

Math Graph Heap (Priority Queue)Number Theory Shortest Path

#3

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#1371MediumFrequency: 100%High Priority

Minimum Remove to Make Valid Parentheses

#4

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#3613MediumFrequency: 100%High Priority

Maximize Amount After Two Days of Conversions

Array String Depth-First Search Breadth-First Search Graph

#5

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#49MediumFrequency: 100%High Priority

Group Anagrams

Asked at Oracle

Array Hash Table String Sorting

#6

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#71MediumFrequency: 100%High Priority

Simplify Path

Asked at Oracle

#7

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#1306EasyFrequency: 100%High Priority

Minimum Absolute Difference

Asked at Oracle

#8

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#532MediumFrequency: 100%High Priority

K-diff Pairs in an Array

Asked at Salesforce

Array Hash Table Two Pointers Binary Search Sorting

#9

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#1423MediumFrequency: 100%High Priority

Maximum Number of Occurrences of a Substring

Asked at Salesforce

Hash Table String Sliding Window

#10

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#286MediumFrequency: 100%High Priority

Walls and Gates

Asked at DoorDash

Array Breadth-First Search Matrix

#11

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#1171MediumFrequency: 100%High Priority

Shortest Path in Binary Matrix

Asked at Airbnb

Array Breadth-First Search Matrix

#12

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#146MediumFrequency: 100%High Priority

LRU Cache

Asked at Flipkart

Hash Table Linked List Design Doubly-Linked List

#13

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#362MediumFrequency: 100%High Priority

Design Hit Counter

Asked at Databricks

Array Binary Search Design Queue Data Stream

#14

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#314MediumFrequency: 97%High Priority

Binary Tree Vertical Order Traversal

Hash Table Tree Depth-First Search Breadth-First Search Sorting+1 more

#15

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#227MediumFrequency: 96%High Priority

Basic Calculator II

Math String Stack

#16

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#658MediumFrequency: 96%High Priority

Find K Closest Elements

Asked at DoorDash

Array Two Pointers Binary Search Sliding Window Sorting+1 more

#17

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#680EasyFrequency: 95%High Priority

Valid Palindrome II

Two Pointers String Greedy

#18

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#348MediumFrequency: 93%High Priority

Design Tic-Tac-Toe

Asked at Databricks

Array Hash Table Design Matrix Simulation

#19

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#88EasyFrequency: 92%High Priority

Merge Sorted Array

Asked at Microsoft

Array Two Pointers Sorting

#20

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#215MediumFrequency: 92%High Priority

Kth Largest Element in an Array

Array Divide and Conquer Sorting Heap (Priority Queue)Quickselect

#21

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#1790MediumFrequency: 91%High Priority

Lowest Common Ancestor of a Binary Tree III

Hash Table Two Pointers Tree Binary Tree

#22

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#364MediumFrequency: 88%High Priority

Nested List Weight Sum II

Asked at LinkedIn

Stack Depth-First Search Breadth-First Search

#23

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#1046MediumFrequency: 88%High Priority

Max Consecutive Ones III

Asked at LinkedIn

Array Binary Search Sliding Window Prefix Sum

#24

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#200MediumFrequency: 88%High Priority

Number of Islands

Asked at Salesforce

Array Depth-First Search Breadth-First Search Union Find Matrix

#25

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#300MediumFrequency: 88%High Priority

Longest Increasing Subsequence

Asked at Salesforce

Array Binary Search Dynamic Programming

#26

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#647MediumFrequency: 88%High Priority

Palindromic Substrings

Asked at Salesforce

Two Pointers String Dynamic Programming

#27

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#408EasyFrequency: 87%High Priority

Valid Word Abbreviation

Two Pointers String

#28

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#912MediumFrequency: 87%High Priority

Random Pick with Weight

Array Math Binary Search Prefix Sum Randomized

#29

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#125EasyFrequency: 87%High Priority

Valid Palindrome

Asked at Oracle

Two Pointers String

#30

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#206EasyFrequency: 87%High Priority

Reverse Linked List

Asked at Oracle

Linked List Recursion

#31

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#238MediumFrequency: 87%High Priority

Product of Array Except Self

Asked at Oracle

Array Prefix Sum

#32

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#322MediumFrequency: 87%High Priority

Coin Change

Asked at Oracle

Array Dynamic Programming Breadth-First Search

#33

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#1478MediumFrequency: 87%High Priority

Maximum Number of Events That Can Be Attended

Asked at Oracle

Array Greedy Sorting Heap (Priority Queue)

#34

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#621MediumFrequency: 85%High Priority

Task Scheduler

Asked at Amazon

Array Hash Table Greedy Sorting Heap (Priority Queue)+1 more

#35

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#50MediumFrequency: 85%High Priority

Pow(x, n)

#36

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#162MediumFrequency: 85%High Priority

Find Peak Element

Array Binary Search

#37

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#3MediumFrequency: 84%High Priority

Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters

Asked at Microsoft

Hash Table String Sliding Window

#38

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#339MediumFrequency: 84%High Priority

Nested List Weight Sum

Depth-First Search Breadth-First Search

#39

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#366MediumFrequency: 84%High Priority

Find Leaves of Binary Tree

Asked at LinkedIn

Tree Depth-First Search Binary Tree

#40

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#8MediumFrequency: 84%High Priority

String to Integer (atoi)

Asked at Databricks

#41

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#198MediumFrequency: 84%High Priority

House Robber

Asked at Databricks

Array Dynamic Programming

#42

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#213MediumFrequency: 84%High Priority

House Robber II

Asked at Databricks

Array Dynamic Programming

#43

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#752MediumFrequency: 84%High Priority

IP to CIDR

Asked at Databricks

String Bit Manipulation

#44

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#560MediumFrequency: 81%High Priority

Subarray Sum Equals K

Array Hash Table Prefix Sum

#45

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#1894EasyFrequency: 80%High Priority

Merge Strings Alternately

Asked at Google

Two Pointers String

#46

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#14EasyFrequency: 80%High Priority

Longest Common Prefix

#47

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#53MediumFrequency: 79%High Priority

Maximum Subarray

Asked at Microsoft

Array Divide and Conquer Dynamic Programming

#48

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#70EasyFrequency: 79%High Priority

Climbing Stairs

Asked at Microsoft

Math Dynamic Programming Memoization

#49

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#1908EasyFrequency: 79%High Priority

Recyclable and Low Fat Products

Asked at Microsoft

#50

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#236MediumFrequency: 79%High Priority

Lowest Common Ancestor of a Binary Tree

Tree Depth-First Search Binary Tree

#51

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#2809EasyFrequency: 77%High Priority

Create Hello World Function

Asked at Google

#52

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#199MediumFrequency: 76%High Priority

Binary Tree Right Side View

Tree Depth-First Search Breadth-First Search Binary Tree

#53

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#347MediumFrequency: 76%High Priority

Top K Frequent Elements

Array Hash Table Divide and Conquer Sorting Heap (Priority Queue)+3 more

#54

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#1713MediumFrequency: 76%High Priority

Dot Product of Two Sparse Vectors

Array Hash Table Two Pointers Design

#55

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#3654MediumFrequency: 74%High Priority

Minimum Array Sum

Asked at Amazon

Array Dynamic Programming

#56

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#543EasyFrequency: 74%High Priority

Diameter of Binary Tree

Tree Depth-First Search Binary Tree

#57

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#27EasyFrequency: 73%High Priority

Remove Element

Asked at Microsoft

Array Two Pointers

#58

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#2383EasyFrequency: 73%High Priority

Add Two Integers

Asked at Microsoft

#59

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#975EasyFrequency: 73%High Priority

Range Sum of BST

Tree Depth-First Search Binary Search Tree Binary Tree

#60

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#907MediumFrequency: 73%High Priority

Koko Eating Bananas

Asked at DoorDash

Array Binary Search

#61

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#1397MediumFrequency: 73%High Priority

Search Suggestions System

Asked at DoorDash

Array String Binary Search Trie Sorting+1 more

#62

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#1783MediumFrequency: 73%High Priority

Ways to Make a Fair Array

Asked at DoorDash

Array Prefix Sum

#63

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#1915EasyFrequency: 73%High Priority

Check if One String Swap Can Make Strings Equal

Asked at DoorDash

Hash Table String Counting

#64

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#778MediumFrequency: 72%High Priority

Reorganize String

Asked at Amazon

Hash Table String Greedy Sorting Heap (Priority Queue)+1 more

#65

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#56MediumFrequency: 72%High Priority

Merge Intervals

#66

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#39MediumFrequency: 72%High Priority

Combination Sum

Asked at TikTok

Array Backtracking

#67

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#139MediumFrequency: 72%High Priority

Word Break

Asked at TikTok

Array Hash Table String Dynamic Programming Trie+1 more

#68

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#1929MediumFrequency: 72%High Priority

Maximum Value at a Given Index in a Bounded Array

Asked at TikTok

Binary Search Greedy

#69

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#235MediumFrequency: 72%High Priority

Lowest Common Ancestor of a Binary Search Tree

Asked at LinkedIn

Tree Depth-First Search Binary Search Tree Binary Tree

#70

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#277MediumFrequency: 72%High Priority

Find the Celebrity

Asked at LinkedIn

Two Pointers Graph Interactive

#71

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#605EasyFrequency: 72%High Priority

Can Place Flowers

Asked at LinkedIn

#72

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#2MediumFrequency: 71%High Priority

Add Two Numbers

Asked at Google

Linked List Math Recursion

#73

Rank

#20EasyFrequency: 71%High Priority

Valid Parentheses

#74

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#121EasyFrequency: 69%High Priority

Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock

Asked at Amazon

Array Dynamic Programming

#75

Rank

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