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Top 50 efficiency Interview Questions

The most frequently asked efficiency questions across all roles and companies, ranked by real interview frequency. Updated daily.

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deduplicationStart here. 3 questions · ~75 min
Find Duplicate Elements EfficientlyMedium
Practice

Find each duplicated integer once using a hash set and preserve its first duplicate order.

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Efficient Duplicate Transaction DetectionMedium
Practice

Identify repeated transaction IDs in one pass using hash sets while preserving first duplicate appearance order.

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Arrays13 questions · ~325 min
Efficient Cosine SimilarityMedium
Practice

Compute cosine similarity for equal-length high-dimensional vectors in one pass with constant auxiliary space.

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Group Objects by PropertyEasy
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Group Amazon Alexa event objects by a hashable property while preserving the original order within each group.

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efficiency9 questions · ~225 min
Efficient JSON TransformationsHard
Practice

Recursively filter Palo Alto Networks JSON by blocked paths using a trie to prune excluded subtrees efficiently.

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Efficient Traversal of Complex StructuresMedium
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Return the path to a Bloomberg Terminal topic in a nested hierarchy using iterative depth-first search.

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Efficient Coding ChallengeHard
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Count valid Unity asset build orders with prerequisite constraints using bitmask dynamic programming.

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Data Structures4 questions · ~100 min
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aggregation4 questions · ~100 min
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coding challenge4 questions · ~100 min
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More topics13 questions · ~325 min
Implement Rate Limiter AlgorithmHard
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Implement a per-client sliding-window rate limiter using hash maps and queues.

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