Twitter/X Software Engineer Interview Questions

43+ Twitter/X Software Engineer interview questions drawn from real candidate reports. Sources include 1Point3Acres, Blind, Glassdoor, Reddit, and LeetCode. Questions span every stage of the Twitter/X Software Engineer loop: OA, phone screen, system design, behavioral, and onsite coding.

What to Expect in the Twitter/X Software Engineer Interview

The Twitter/X Software Engineer interview process typically runs 4 to 6 rounds depending on seniority level. Based on candidate reports in the LeakCode database, the loop usually includes a resume review, an online assessment or coding phone screen, one or more technical rounds, a system design round (for senior and above), and a behavioral or values round.

Difficulty skews toward medium and hard LeetCode-style problems in the coding rounds. System design questions test breadth (component selection, scaling, trade-off reasoning) more than deep implementation. Behavioral questions are tied to the company's stated values and principles.

Twitter/X Software Engineer Questions (Sample)

PhonePe | Software Engineer | Dec 2024

phone screen 2025 leetcode

Experience: 3+ Years Company: PhonePe Role: Software Engineer (3-5 yoe) Location: Bangalore Applied through referral __ Round 1: Machine Coding | 1.5 hr Activity tag logging system. Functionalities to build: 1. user should be able to add tags to...

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Cloudflare interview experience

system design 2025 leetcode

Status: 4 YOE Position: Software engineer Location: Remote, US Date: July, 2024 TPS: 3 sum extending to 4 sum Coding Round: I was asked to complete the below function for different cases: 1. Global count to check...

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AngelOne | SDE 3 | LLD Round

phone screen 2025 leetcode

Design a simplified version of Twitter where users can post tweets, follow/unfollow another user, and is able to see the 10 most recent tweets in the user\'s news feed. ...

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Kutumb interview experience

phone screen 2025 leetcode

In total, there were 2 rounds of interviews evaluating various skills as mentioned in each round below: \uD83D\uDC49 Round 1 - DSA and LLD (60 minutes): asked 1 DSA question(implement search...

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Coupang | Staff Software Engineer | BLR

oa 2024 leetcode

Round 1: Coding 1 hour in Hackerrank tool https://leetcode.com/problems/design-twitter/description/ **Round 2: High Level Design Round Desing Stock Brokerage Site Users can have multiple watchlist and each watchlist can have multiple stocks in it. Stocks can...

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LinkedList Patternwise questions

2024 leetcode

Linked List https://leetcode.com/problems/design-linked-list/ Normal Recursion(Given 1 LL) Simple Recursion Nothing else https://leetcode.com/problems/swapping-nodes-in-a-linked-list/ https://leetcode.com/problems/plus-one-linked-list/ https://leetcode.com/problems/convert-binary-number-in-a-linked-list-to-integer/ Modifying the LL But the number of Nodes will be same Reversing the Linked List https://leetcode.com/problems/reverse-linked-list/ https://leetcode.com/problems/reverse-linked-list-ii/ https://leetcode.com/problems/palindrome-linked-list/ https://leetcode.com/problems/reverse-nodes-in-k-group/ https://leetcode.com/problems/print-immutable-linked-list-in-reverse/ Reordering the Nodes https://leetcode.com/problems/partition-list/ - IMP https://leetcode.com/problems/reorder-list/ https://leetcode.com/problems/swap-nodes-in-pairs/ https://leetcode.com/problems/rotate-list/ https://leetcode.com/problems/odd-even-linked-list/ Delete Nodes https://leetcode.com/problems/remove-nth-node-from-end-of-list/ https://leetcode.com/problems/remove-duplicates-from-sorted-list/ - if asked to...

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PhonePe | Software Engineer ( 3-5 YOE) | Reject

phone screen 2024 leetcode

Graduation : Tier 1 non-cse Current : 3+ YOE Company: product based TC: ~34LPA Application : Applied via Referral for Bangalore Position. Round 1 Machine Coding Round ( Strong Hire ) The question was...

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Goldman Sachs | Associate | Selected | Oct 2024

oa easy 2024 leetcode

I\u2019ve been in the interview loops with Goldman Sachs since the last week of August. Throughout this time, multiple recruiters have reached out for two different roles. Given that I...

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Twitter Interview Questions | Set 2

2024 gfg

Question 1: Acme RotationsArchaeologists on planet Acme just uncovered an ancient temple! Above. At the entrance, there is an inscription written in lowercase English lett...

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Twitter | Phone screen | k login requests

phone screen 2022 leetcode

Got this question in a phone screen. I could only come up with a O(2n) soln. Was my time complexity + soln correct? I didn\'t get any feedback at the...

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Twitter | Stage (Phone Screen )

phone screen 2022 leetcode

//\xA0Write\xA0a\xA0method\xA0to\xA0find\xA0out\xA0how\xA0much\xA0total\xA0time\xA0was\xA0spent\xA0in\xA0each\xA0space,\xA0 //\xA0over\xA0all\xA0users. //\xA0action,\xA0space,\xA0user,\xA0timestamp static\xA0String\xA0[][]\xA0requests\xA0=\xA0{ \xA0\xA0\xA0\xA0{"create",\xA0"xyz",\xA0"1",\xA0"1619916081"},\xA0//\xA0Sat\xA0May\xA001\xA02021\xA017:41:21\xA0GMT-0700\xA0 \xA0\xA0\xA0\xA0{"join",\xA0"xyz",\xA0"2",\xA0"1619916681"},\xA0//\xA0Sat\xA0May\xA001\xA02021\xA017:51:21\xA0GMT-0700 \xA0\xA0\xA0\xA0{"create",\xA0"abc",\xA0"3",\xA0"1619916881"},\xA0//12:01 \xA0\xA0\xA0\xA0{"leave",\xA0"xyz",\xA0"2",\xA0"1619920281"}, \xA0\xA0\xA0\xA0{"join",\xA0"abc",\xA0"4",\xA0"1619920881"}, \xA0\xA0\xA0\xA0{"create",\xA0"ghi",\xA0"5",\xA0"1619923999"}, \xA0\xA0\xA0\xA0{"leave",\xA0"xyz",\xA0"1",\xA0"1619923881"}, \xA0\xA0\xA0\xA0{"leave",\xA0"abc",\xA0"3",\xA0"1619927481"},\xA0//12:07\xA0time\xA0spent\xA0=\xA06\xA0minutes \xA0\xA0\xA0\xA0{"leave",\xA0"abc",\xA0"4",\xA0"1619927481"}, \xA0\xA0\xA0\xA0{"leave",\xA0"ghi",\xA0"5",\xA0"1619958001"} }; For Userid = 3, total time spent is 12:07 -12:01=6 mins

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Twitter | Onsite | Bad expressions search

onsite 2022 leetcode

This is roghly the question. You are given a list of "bad expressions" ahead of time. You can preprocess them, or do whatever you need. You are to implement a...

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Twitter | OA | Suggestion engine

oa 2022 leetcode

Given a list of sentences build a suggestion engine, where if we provide an input word it returns the most frequent next word from the input list. For Example: [["Alice", "jumped", "into",...

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Twitter Software Engineer Interview Experience

phone screen medium 2021 leetcode

Application Process Applied off-campus on careers page. #### Interview experience Cannot disclose exact questions as signed an NDA. [Telephone screen] This round was data structures and algorithms based....

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Twitter Phone interview

phone screen 2021 leetcode

Q1) Median from Data Stream - https://leetcode.com/problems/find-median-from-data-stream/ \t Discussed all approaches - Brute Force, Heap, BST with time and space complexity. \t Followup - Stream has trillions of numbers \t (Discussed range...

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Difficulty Breakdown

5

easy

2

medium

Based on 43 questions with difficulty labels from candidate reports.

Interview Rounds

Here is how the Twitter/X Software Engineer questions in the LeakCode database break down by interview round, based on what candidates reported:

Round Questions in Database
phone screen 17
oa 13
technical 2
system design 2
take home 1
recruiter 1

Most Common Topics

algorithms (29) system design (7) trie (1) strings (1) sliding window (1) linked list (1) design (1) arrays (1)

Question Recency

4

2025

5

2024

4

2022

Question counts by interview year, based on candidate-reported dates.

How to Prepare for the Twitter/X Software Engineer Interview

Use the LeakCode question database as your primary research tool. Filter by role (Software Engineer), then by round type to focus your prep on the specific stages in your upcoming loop. Sort by recency to see what 2026 candidates actually faced.

  • Start with questions from the last 12 months. Interview processes change and recent data is the strongest signal.
  • Cross-reference questions that appear in multiple sources (1p3a, Blind, Glassdoor). Multi-source confirmation means a question has stronger recurrence probability.
  • For system design rounds: focus on the question patterns, not individual questions. The same design principles recur across many prompts.
  • For behavioral rounds: map your experiences to the company's stated values before the interview. Most behavioral questions at top companies are derivatives of a small set of core leadership competencies.

FAQ

How many Twitter/X Software Engineer questions are in the database?

43+ questions from verified candidate reports. The count grows as new reports are scraped daily from 1Point3Acres, Blind, Glassdoor, Reddit, and LeetCode.

Are these questions from real Twitter/X interviews?

Yes. All questions are sourced from actual candidate interview reports, not generated by AI. Each entry links back to its source URL where available, and questions are tagged with the year and round reported by the candidate.

How current is this data?

LeakCode updates daily. The database is filtered to exclude duplicate and low-quality entries. You can filter by interview year to focus on recent cycles.

Does LeakCode cover Twitter/X OA questions specifically?

Yes. The database includes online assessment questions tagged with round type. See the Twitter/X OA page for a dedicated view.

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