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Aurora Innovation Software Engineer Interview Questions

The questions to prepare for a Aurora Innovation Software Engineer interview. Questions from real interview reports rank first. Updated daily.

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CodingStart here. 24 questions · ~310 min
Battleship Guessing StepMedium
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Evaluate a Battleship guess, detect hits, sunk ships, repeated guesses, and victory using sets and coordinate mapping.

ArraysAlgorithmsedge casesAurora Innovation
Print Folder Paths as TreeMedium
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Construct a sorted hierarchical folder tree from slash-separated paths using a trie and depth-first traversal.

dfsData StructuresAlgorithmsAurora Innovation
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Execution5 questions · ~65 min
Shutdown EC2 TimingHard

Explain how to decide when EC2 instances should be shut down safely, balancing cost, availability, workload demand, and recovery needs.

cost optimizationcloud infrastructurecapacity planningAurora Innovation
RDS Cost Analysis and ResolutionHard

Explain how you would investigate AWS RDS spend, identify root causes, and recommend practical cost reductions.

cost optimizationcloud infrastructurebudget controlAurora Innovation
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System Design9 questions · ~116 min
Design a Job SchedulerHard

Design a reliable scheduler for prioritizing, placing, monitoring, and retrying machine learning jobs.

distributed systemsdesignfailure modesAurora Innovation
Coordinator-Worker Split-Brain ScenariosHard

Explain coordinator and worker behavior during node failure, recovery, duplicate execution, and split brain.

distributed systemsarchitecture patternsfailure modesAurora Innovation
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Security & Infrastructure3 questions · ~39 min
Heat Transfer and Component DesignMedium

Evaluates engineering judgment for reliability and thermal considerations in safety-critical systems.

Aurora Innovation
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Behavioral & Leadership7 questions · ~90 min
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More topics2 questions · ~26 min
OS and Kernel Behavior of printfMedium

Evaluates understanding of system calls, paging, process plumbing, and I/O subsystems.

os internalslinuxAurora Innovation
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