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Practice for cracking any coding interview

  • Difficulty Level : Medium
  • Last Updated : 02 Aug, 2021

Coding questions in this article are difficulty wise ordered. The idea of this post is to target two types of people. 

  1. Competitive Programming Preparation (For Ist and IInd Year Students) : It is recommended to finish all questions from all categories except possibly Linked List, Tree and BST. However at least 10 questions from these categories should also be covered. If you have never done competitive programming before, it is strongly recommended to see How to Begin with Competitive Programming first. If you wish to get yourself prepared with a language first, you may first begin C++ Track or Java Track
  2. Interview preparation : It is recommended to cover all topics. In every topic, you can start from questions according to your comfort level.

The practice system tells you exactly the test case where your code failed. In case you need more clarity about a question, you may use expected output button to see output for your given input. You can also view successful submissions of others in case you are stuck. To see solution of others, please click “All Submissions” button at the bottom of problem statement. 


Topics :



Mathematical :


  1. Print the pattern (You only need to write function here)
  2. Print table (This is a full code problem. Please see sample codes here before attempting the problem)
  3. Series AP
  4. Series GP
  5. Closest Number
  6. Armstrong Numbers
  7. Sum of digits of a number
  8. Reverse digits
  9. Print the Kth Digit
  10. Binary number to decimal number
  11. Jumping Numbers
  12. GCD of two numbers
  13. LCM of two numbers
  14. Add two fractions
  15. GCD of array
  16. Factorial of a number
  17. Compute nPr
  18. Compute nCr
  19. Largest prime factor
  20. Perfect Numbers
  21. Pair cube count
  22. Find Nth root of M
  23. Prime Number
  24. Sieve of Eratosthenes
  25. Sum of all prime numbers between 1 and N.
  26. Pairs of prime numbers

Related Learning Resources : Mathematical Algorithms and Number Theory 





  1. Count Squares
  2. 3 Divisors
  3. Check if four points form a square
  4. Check for power
  5. Overlapping rectangles
  6. Trailing zeroes in factorial
  7. Angle between hour and minute hand
  8. Number Of Open Doors
  9. Triangular Numbers
  10. Nth Even Fibonacci Number
  11. Last two digit Fibonacci
  12. Squares in a Matrix
  13. Day of the week

Related Learning Resources : Puzzles 


Arrays :


  1. Array operations (Search, insert, delete)
  2. Array alternate printing
  3. Maximum and minimum in an array
  4. Second largest in array
  5. Sum of array elements
  6. Reverse an Array
  7. Rotate Array
  8. Count of smaller elements
  9. Remove duplicate elements from sorted Array
  10. Count possible triangles
  11. Leaders in an array
  12. Minimum distance between two numbers
  13. Sorted subsequence of size 3
  14. Maximum Sub Array
  15. Majority Element
  16. Wave Array
  17. Maximum Index
  18. Max sum path in two arrays
  19. Product array puzzle
  20. Find duplicates in a small ranged array
  21. Find Missing And Repeating
  22. Stock buy and sell
  23. Trapping Rain Water
  24. Pair with given sum in a sorted array
  25. Chocolate Distribution Problem
  26. Longest Consecutive subsequence
  27. Three way partitioning

Related Learning Resources : Array Data Structure 

String :


  1. Check for palindrome
  2. Check for anagram
  3. Anagram Palindrome
  4. Title case conversion
  5. Sort the string
  6. Merge two strings
  7. Save Ironman
  8. Good or Bad string
  9. URLify a given string
  10. Extract Maximum
  11. Reverse words in a given string
  12. Implement strstr
  13. Check for subsequence
  14. Check for rotation
  15. Check if two strings are k-anagrams
  16. Uncommon characters
  17. Anagram Search
  18. First repeating character
  19. First non-repeating character
  20. Longest Distinct characters in string
  21. Longest Palindromic Substring
  22. Find k-th character in string
  23. Smallest window in a string containing all characters of another string
  24. Add Binary Strings
  25. Multiply two Strings
  26. Nearest multiple of 10

Related Learning Resources : String Data Structure 

Searching :

  1. Linear Search
  2. Facing the sun
  3. Magnet Array Problem
  4. Binary Search
  5. Floor in a Sorted Array
  6. Count occurrences in a sorted array
  7. Search in a sorted and rotated
  8. Find the missing number
  9. Missing element of AP
  10. Square root of a number
  11. Find Transition Point in a Sorted Binary Array
  12. Last index of One
  13. Peak element
  14. Allocate minimum number of pages
  15. Common elements in three sorted
  16. Smallest Positive missing number

Related Learning Resources : Searching Algorithms 



Sorting :


  1. Check if array is sorted
  2. Sort a binary array
  3. Sort an array of 0s, 1s and 2s
  4. Bubble Sort
  5. Insertion Sort
  6. Selection Sort
  7. Quick Sort
  8. Merge Sort
  9. Sort an array when two halves are sorted
  10. Relative Sorting
  11. Triplet Sum in Array
  12. Minimum Swaps to Sort
  13. Sorting elements by frequency
  14. Triplet Family
  15. Count the triplets

Related Learning Resources : Sorting Algorithms 




Hashing :


  1. Count distinct elements
  2. Array Subset of another array
  3. Nuts and Bolts Problem
  4. Count frequencies of elements
  5. Check if two arrays are equal or not
  6. First element to occur k times
  7. In First But Second
  8. Non-Repeating Element
  9. Group Anagrams Together
  10. Winner of an election
  11. Check for a pair with given sum
  12. Count distinct pairs with difference k
  13. Count pairs with given sum
  14. Find all four sum numbers
  15. A Simple Fraction
  16. Largest Fibonacci Subsequence

Related Learning Resources : Hashing Data Structure 


Matrix :

  1. Transpose of Matrix
  2. Print Matrix in snake Pattern
  3. Print a given matrix in spiral form
  4. Is Sudoku Valid
  5. Count zeros in a sorted matrix
  6. Squares in a Matrix
  7. A Boolean Matrix Question
  8. Search in row-wise and column-wise sorted
  9. Find the row with maximum number of 1s
  10. Count pairs Sum in matrices
  11. Median In a Row-Wise sorted Matrix

Related Learning Resources : Matrix Data Structure 




Recursion :


  1. Print Pattern
  2. Handshakes
  3. Tower of Hanoi
  4. Josephus problem
  5. Recursively remove all adjacent duplicates
  6. Possible words from Phone digits
  7. Flood fill Algorithm
  8. Permutations of a string

Related Learning Resources : Recursion 



Divide & Conquer :


  1. Write your own power function
  2. Program for n-th Fibonacci Number
  3. K-th element of two sorted Arrays
  4. Median of two sorted arrays
  5. Karatsuba Algorithm
  6. The Painter’s Partition Problem
  7. Convex Hull
  8. Counting inversions

Related Learning Resources : Divide and Conquer Algorithms 




Linked List :


  1. Print a Linked List
  2. Length of a linked list
  3. Node at a given index in linked list
  4. Middle of a linked list
  5. n-th node from end of a linked list
  6. Delete a node
  7. Remove every k’th node
  8. Delete N nodes after M nodes of a linked list
  9. Delete without head pointer
  10. Rearrange a linked list
  11. Segregate even and odd (Using only one traversal)
  12. Reorder List
  13. Polynomial Addition
  14. Insert in a Sorted List
  15. Swap nodes in pairs
  16. Reverse a linked list
  17. Reverse a Linked List in groups of given size.
  18. Check for palindrome
  19. Flattening a linked list
  20. Get intersection point
  21. Remove duplicates from sorted list
  22. Remove duplicates from unsorted lists
  23. Sort a linked list of 0s, 1s and 2s.
  24. Circular Linked List
  25. Detect loop in a linked list
  26. Find length of Loop
  27. Remove loop in a linked list
  28. Add two numbers represented by linked lists
  29. Clone a linked list with random pointers
  30. Add 1 to a number represented as linked list
  31. Add two numbers represented as linked list
  32. Multiply two linked lists
  33. Merge two sorted linked lists
  34. Merge Sort on Linked List
  35. Intersection of Two Linked Lists
  36. Union of Two Linked Lists

Related Learning Resources : Linked List Data Structure 



Doubly and Circular Linked Lists


  1. Insert a node in Doubly linked list
  2. Delete node in Doubly Linked List
  3. Circular Linked List Traversal
  4. Split a Circular Linked List into two halves
  5. Insert in Sorted way in a Sorted DLL
  6. QuickSort on Doubly Linked List
  7. Merge Sort on Doubly Linked List
  8. Rotate doubly Linked List by P nodes
  9. XOR Linked List

Related Learning Resources : Doubly Linked List and Circular Linked List





  1. Implement Stack using Array
  2. Implement Stack using Linked List
  3. Check for balanced parenthesis
  4. Reverse a stack
  5. Implement two stacks in an array
  6. Design a stack with getMin
  7. The celebrity problem
  8. Stock Span Problem
  9. Next Greater Element
  10. Next Smaller Element
  11. Longest valid Parentheses

Related Learning Resources : Stack Data Structure 

Queue and Dequeu

  1. Implement Queue using Linked List
  2. Implement Queue using Array
  3. Implement Stack using Queue
  4. Implement Queue using Stack
  5. Reversing a Queue
  6. Circular tour

Related Learning Resources : Queue Data Structure 

Prefix Sum and Sliding Window 

  1. Equilibrium Point
  2. Check if there is a subarray with 0 sun
  3. Longest Sub-Array with Sum K 
  4. Longest subarray with sum divisible by K
  5. Largest subarray with equal 1s and 0s
  6. Longest common span with same number of 1s and 0s among two arrays
  7. Find mximum sum in any subarray of size k
  8. Count distinct elements in every window of size k
  9. Check for subarray with given sum

Related Learning Resources : Prefix Sum and Sliding Window 


Bit Magic


  1. Check if a number is even or odd.
  2. Number of bit flips
  3. Game of XOR
  4. Find bit at a position
  5. Swap odd and even bits
  6. Power of 2
  7. Odd occurring element
  8. Missing number in array
  9. Index Of an Extra Element
  10. Reverse Bits
  11. Count set bits
  12. Power Set

Related Learning Resources : Bit Magic 






  1. Inorder Traversal
  2. Preorder Traversal
  3. Postorder Traversal
  4. Level order traversal
  5. Find height of Binary Tree
  6. Count Leaves in Binary Tree
  7. Check for Children Sum Property
  8. Mirror Tree
  9. Check for Balanced Tree
  10. Lowest Common Ancestor in a Binary Tree
  11. Diameter of Binary Tree
  12. Left View of Binary Tree
  13. Right View of Binary Tree
  14. Maximum path sum
  15. Level order traversal line by line
  16. Tree from Postorder and Inorder
  17. Tree from Preorder and Inorder
  18. Connect Nodes at Same Level
  19. Zig-Zag level order traversal
  20. Serialize and Deserialize a Binary Tree
  21. Leaves to DLL
  22. Binary Tree to Doubly Linked List
  23. Binary Tree to Circular Doubly Linked List

Related Learning Resources : Tree Data Structure 




Binary Search Tree


  1. BST Search
  2. BST Insert
  3. BST Delete
  4. Minimum in BST
  5. Inorder Traversal and BST
  6. Count BST nodes that lie in a given range
  7. Add all greater values
  8. Predecessor and Successor in BST
  9. Closest Neighbor in BST
  10. Lowest Common Ancestor in a BST
  11. Convert Level Order Traversal to BST
  12. Normal BST to Balanced BST
  13. Pair with given sum in BST
  14. Check for BST
  15. Correct BST with two nodes swapped
  16. Median of BST
  17. k-th smallest element in BST
  18. Unique BST’s 
  19. Array to BST
  20. Preorder Traversal and BST
  21. Preorder to Postorder
  22. Leaf nodes from preorder traversal
  23. Triplet with 0 sum in BST
  24. Merge two BST ‘s
  25. Largest BST Subtree

Related Learning Resources : Binary Search Tree 


  1. Binary Heap Operations
  2. Height of Heap
  3. Heap Sort
  4. Sort a Nearly Sorted Array
  5. K Largest Elements
  6. K-th largest element in a stream
  7. Median of stream
  8. Merge k sorted arrays

Related Learning Resources : Heap Data Structure 




  1. Print adjacency list
  2. Breadth First Search
  3. Depth First Search
  4. Find whether path exist
  5. Knight Walk
  6. Snake and Ladder Problem
  7. Bipartite Graph
  8. Detect Cycle in an undirected graph
  9. Detect Cycle in a directed graph
  10. Find first n numbers with given set of digits
  11. Rotten oranges
  12. Topological sort
  13. Shortest Source to Destination Path
  14. Transitive closure of a Graph
  15. Strongly Connected Components

Related Learning Resources : Graph Data Structure 


Greedy Algorithms


  1. Fractional Knapsack
  2. Largest number with given sum
  3. Activity Selection
  4. N meetings in one room
  5. Minimum Platforms
  6. Minimum number of Coins
  7. Job Sequencing Problem
  8. Minimize the heights
  9. Huffman Coding
  10. Huffman Decoding
  11. Minimum Spanning Tree
  12. Dijkstra for Adjacency Matrix

Related Learning Resources : Greedy Algorithms 




Dynamic Programming


  1. Print first n Fibonacci Numbers.
  2. Count ways to reach the n’th stair
  3. Cutted Segments
  4. Kadane’s Algorithm
  5. Stickler Thief
  6. Minimum number of jumps
  7. Total Decoding Messages
  8. Min Cost Path
  9. Coin Change
  10. Longest Common Subsequence
  11. Consecutive 1’s not allowed
  12. Edit Distance
  13. Rod Cutting
  14. Water Overflow
  15. Maximum Tip Calculator
  16. Longest Increasing Subsequence
  17. Maximum sum increasing subsequence
  18. Max length chain
  19. 0 – 1 Knapsack Problem
  20. Maximum Tip Calculator
  21. Interleaved string
  22. Longest Palindromic Subsequence
  23. Wildcard Pattern Matching
  24. Box Stacking
  25. Longest Bitonic subsequence
  26. Minimum sum partition
  27. Largest square formed in a matrix
  28. Word Break
  29. Matrix Chain Multiplication
  30. Special Keyboard
  31. Egg Dropping Puzzle
  32. Optimal Strategy for a Game

Related Learning Resources : Dynamic Programming 



  1. Rat Maze With Multiple Jumps
  2. Coins and Game
  3. Hamiltonian Path
  4. Solve the Sudoku
  5. Combination Sum – Part 2
  6. Combination Sum
  7. Subsets
  8. Largest number in K swaps
  9. M-Coloring Problem
  10. Black and White

Related Learning Resources : Backtracking 



  1. Trie Search and Insert
  2. Trie Delete
  3. Unique rows in a binary matrix
  4. Count of distinct substrings
  5. Word Boggle

Related Learning Resources : Trie Data Structure 


Misc Questions to test your overall learning

  1. Longest common prefix
  2. Implement Atoi
  3. Two numbers with sum closest to zero
  4. Smallest greater elements in whole array
  5. Max rectangle
  6. Find triplets with zero sum
  7. Counting elements in two arrays
  8. Merge K sorted linked lists
  9. Maximum Difference
  10. Circle of strings
  11. All possible Word Breaks
  12. Alien Dictionary
  13. Design a tiny URL or URL shortener
  14. Implement LRU Cache

Important Links :

  1. Sudo Placement : For companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Adobe, .., etc
  2. Sudo Placement 2 : For companies like TCS, Infosys, Wipro, Cognizant, .. etc
  3. Aptitude questions asked in round 1 : Placements Course designed for this purpose.
  4. MCQs asked from different computer science subjects : Subject-Wise Quizzes
  5. Interview theory and coding questions of all companies : Company wise all practice questions.
  6. Interview experiences of all companies : Interview corner.
  7. Must Do Coding Questions for Companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Adobe, …
  8. Must Do Coding Questions Company-wise

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