Real Interview Questions Leaked from 805+ Companies

23,721+ questions reported directly by candidates after their interviews, aggregated from 7 sources including 1p3a, LeetCode Discuss, Reddit, Blind, and Glassdoor. Free to browse. No account required.

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Why leaked questions beat curated practice problems

Every major prep platform sells you the same thing: a curated list of algorithmic problems chosen for their educational value. LeetCode has 3,000+ problems. Grind 75 tells you which 75 matter most. NeetCode adds video explanations. None of them tell you what Google's L5 system design loop actually looked like last month.

That is what leaked questions solve. When a candidate posts on 1Point3Acres that their Stripe phone screen asked them to design a rate limiter and then walk through the webhook delivery guarantees, that is a primary source. No prep platform invented that question — Stripe asked it, a candidate reported it, and now you know.

The information asymmetry between candidates who have access to leaked reports and those who do not is real. Referrals already come with insider prep. Candidates who know someone at the company get briefed on what to expect. LeakCode is the version of that for everyone else.

Curated practice problems

  • Chosen for pedagogy, not company signal
  • No company-specific round context
  • No candidate outcome data
  • Goes stale as companies rotate questions

Leaked candidate reports

  • Primary source — company actually asked this
  • Includes role, round, seniority, year
  • Includes candidate outcome (offer/reject/progress)
  • Updated daily as new reports come in

How LeakCode aggregates interview leaks

Candidate interview reports are scattered across seven communities, most of which are paywalled, non-English, or difficult to search. LeakCode runs a continuous scraping and enrichment pipeline that collects, normalises, and surfaces these reports in one place.

1. 1Point3Acres (1p3a) — premium, translated from Chinese

1p3a is the largest Chinese-language tech candidate community. Their interview threads sit behind a $100/month paywall and are written in Chinese. LeakCode translates these posts to English using a context-aware pipeline (not literal translation — interview vocabulary is decoded and annotated) and makes them searchable. Most English-speaking candidates never see this content. You do.

2. LeetCode Discuss — company-tagged question threads

LeetCode Discuss contains tens of thousands of candidate posts where interviewees describe specific questions they encountered at named companies. LeakCode indexes these posts, links each to the correct company, and deduplicates across the LeetCode and 1p3a corpora.

3. Reddit, Blind, Glassdoor, and GeeksForGeeks

r/cscareerquestions, r/leetcode, Blind's company-specific boards, and GeeksForGeeks interview experiences round out the corpus. Each source requires different normalization logic — company names are inconsistently formatted, roles are described with different terminology, and post dates vary in precision. The pipeline normalises all of this before ingestion.

After collection, every entry goes through quality filters: junk removal (spam, unrelated posts), duplicate detection across sources, company-name normalization (e.g. "GOOG", "Google LLC", and "Google" all resolve to the same company profile), and a quality score that gates display. Only posts that clear all filters appear on company pages.

See the full methodology at /methodology and the source list at /sources.

Coverage by company — top 30 by question count

The table below shows the 30 companies with the most reported questions and experiences in LeakCode's database. Click any company to browse its full question list, filtered by role and round.

# Company Questions
1 Amazon 2,432
2 Google 1,098
3 Meta 953
4 Microsoft 702
5 Bloomberg 281
6 Uber 425
7 ByteDance 84
8 LinkedIn 185
9 OpenAI 42
10 Salesforce 78
11 Apple 81
12 Oracle 71
13 Accenture 18
14 DoorDash 94
15 Stripe 68
16 Adobe 70
17 Anthropic 26
18 Atlassian 49
19 Databricks 49
20 Paypal 88
21 IBM 76
22 Snowflake 66
23 Airbnb 68
24 Netflix 67
25 Coinbase 29
26 NVIDIA 24
27 Rippling 41
28 Cisco 71
29 Accolite 106
30 Roblox 28

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Coverage by source

LeakCode aggregates from seven primary sources. Each contributes a different type of intel: LeetCode tends toward structured algorithmic questions, 1p3a has the most detailed full-loop interview reports, Reddit has the most candid salary and outcome context, and Blind has the strongest signal on culture and process.

Source Entries
LeetCode Discuss22,000+
Reddit15,700+
1Point3Acres5,700+
GeeksForGeeks5,000+
Blind2,500+
Glassdoor1,800+
InterviewDB800+

See full source details at /sources. Counts reflect post-filter (non-junk, non-duplicate) entries as of May 2026.

What "leaked" means — and what it does not

"Leaked" is the term the candidate community uses for interview questions that appear in public posts after the interview. It does not mean stolen from company systems or obtained through unauthorized access. It means a candidate sat through an interview, remembered a question (or a few), and posted about it online.

This has happened on forums since at least 2005. 1Point3Acres was built around it in 2010. LeetCode Discuss has thousands of company-tagged threads. Reddit's r/cscareerquestions has detailed loop reports going back years. The activity is ubiquitous, legal, and accepted. Glassdoor and Indeed have interview question sections that function identically.

What makes LeakCode different from browsing those sources manually is the aggregation: every post is timestamped, company-normalized, role-tagged, and deduplicated. A question that appears in three separate Reddit posts and two 1p3a threads surfaces as a single entry with a frequency count of five, not as five separate posts buried across different communities.

Frequency is the signal that curated lists cannot replicate. When twelve different candidates report that Amazon's bar-raiser round includes a Leadership Principles deep-dive on "ownership," that pattern — visible only through aggregation — tells you something that no single post can.

How to use leaked interview questions effectively

The common mistake is treating leaked questions as a memorization target — study this exact question and expect it to appear. That rarely works. Companies rotate questions and interviewers vary. The value is in the signal, not the exact text.

Here is how to extract the actual signal:

  1. 1

    Filter to your target company, role, and round

    Google L5 system design is a different interview from Google L3 coding. Amazon behavioral is different from Amazon system design. The role and round filters exist precisely because the signal differs.

  2. 2

    Sort by recency, then look at the top 10–20 entries

    Questions from 2023 are less predictive than questions from 2025–2026. LeakCode defaults to recency-weighted display. Focus on the recent cluster first.

  3. 3

    Identify topic clusters, not individual questions

    If six out of ten recent Stripe coding reports mention distributed systems or eventual consistency, that is a topic cluster. Prep depth on that topic — not the exact problem — is the goal.

  4. 4

    Read the full candidate experience, not just the question

    The full report often includes what the interviewer cared about, what follow-up questions were asked, and whether the candidate got an offer. That context is as valuable as the question itself and is only available in the unlocked view.

For a deeper breakdown of interview prep strategy by role and company tier, see the FAANG interview prep guide and the system design questions guide.

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Frequently asked questions

What does 'leaked' mean for interview questions?
Every question in LeakCode is sourced from a candidate who reported it after their interview — not invented by a prep service. Sources include 1Point3Acres forum threads, LeetCode Discuss posts, Reddit r/cscareerquestions, Blind, and Glassdoor. Each entry carries a timestamp from the original post so you know how recent the intel is.
Are these real interview questions or practice problems?
Real interview questions — not curated practice problems. Practice problems are chosen by prep services for pedagogical value. Leaked questions are what companies actually asked, reported by candidates who sat in the room. LeakCode aggregates the latter.
How many companies have leaked interview questions on LeakCode?
LeakCode currently covers 805+ companies, from FAANG down to Series B startups and finance firms. Every company page shows questions broken down by role and round.
Which sources do the leaked questions come from?
LeakCode aggregates from seven primary sources: 1Point3Acres (premium posts, translated from Chinese), LeetCode Discuss (company-tagged threads), Reddit r/cscareerquestions and r/leetcode, Blind, Glassdoor, and GeeksForGeeks.
Is it legal to use leaked interview questions for prep?
Yes. Candidates who report interview questions are sharing their own personal experiences — this is protected expression. Aggregating and studying candidate-reported interview experiences is standard practice across every major prep platform.
How fresh are the leaked questions?
LeakCode ingests new reports daily. The database includes questions from 2026, 2025, and earlier years. Filter to recent years on any company page to see what is being asked right now.
How is LeakCode different from LeetCode or InterviewDB?
LeetCode is a practice platform — it curates algorithmic problems but does not tell you which specific problems each company asked. LeakCode covers 805+ companies, aggregates from 7 sources including paywalled 1p3a content translated from Chinese.
Can I browse leaked interview questions for free?
Yes. LeakCode's free tier lets you browse all 805+ companies, see question titles and frequency rankings, and read 1–2 full questions per company with no account required.
What roles are covered?
Software Engineer (SWE), Machine Learning Engineer (MLE), Data Scientist, Product Manager (PM), Engineering Manager (EM), Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), Quantitative Analyst, and more. Filter by role on any company page.
How do I know the leaked questions are accurate?
Each question is sourced from a named community post with a timestamp. LeakCode runs a multi-stage pipeline: spam removal, duplicate detection, company-name normalization, and quality scoring. Only posts that clear all filters appear on company pages.
How should I use leaked interview questions?
Use them to understand what topics and problem types a company favors, not to memorize exact questions. The signal value is in the pattern — if Google L5 system design reports consistently mention distributed storage and sharding tradeoffs, prep on that topic.

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