Top 44
Prep plan
Updated weekly · Last refresh Oct 17

Motive Backend Engineer Interview Questions

The questions to prepare for a Motive Backend Engineer interview. Questions from real interview reports rank first. Updated daily.

44questions
~7htotal time
Track your progressSign up free to work through all 44 questions and resume where you left off.
Start practicing free →
1
CodingStart here. 12 questions · ~116 min
Longest Subarray With Target SumMedium
Practice

Use prefix sums and a hash table to find the longest continuous subarray with a given sum in O(n) time.

Hash TablesArraysSearchingMotive
Validate Binary Search TreeEasy
Practice

Problem At Dropbox, a service stores ordered values in a binary tree and needs to verify that the structure satisfies binary search tree rules. Given the r...

RecursionSearchingTreesMotive
More Coding questions with a free account
2
SQL & Data Manipulation3 questions + 3 drills · ~59 min
3
System Design14 questions · ~135 min
SQL vs NoSQL for Fleet ManagementMedium

Assesses your ability to choose data stores based on access patterns and consistency needs.

Trade-offsnosqlsqlMotive
More System Design questions with a free account
4
Behavioral & Leadership12 questions · ~116 min
More Behavioral & Leadership questions with a free account
5
More topics3 questions · ~29 min
Most Complex System You BuiltHard

Evaluates your ability to lead architecture decisions and manage complexity end to end.

experiencecomplex systemssystem architectureMotive
Process vs Thread in ConcurrencyMedium

Evaluates your understanding of concurrency primitives and their implications for backend systems.

concurrencyMotive
Consistency During Network PartitionsHard

Tests distributed systems knowledge for maintaining correctness and availability under partition in payment flows.

distributed systemsdata consistencyMotive
The finish line: interview-readyComplete all 44 questions plus 3 hands-on drills to finish this plan.