10 Entry-Level MAANG Interview Questions: Tactical Insights for System Design, Concurrency, Algorithms & Data Structures, OOP, Databases, Networking, and Web Development

Interviews at MAANG (Meta, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google) companies are often regarded as the gold standard. These interviews are notorious not just for their rigor, but for their unique ability to test a candidate’s depth and breadth in both coding and system design.

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We will keep things succinct and tactical, and provide pointers to think and develop your answers in different directions.

Here are 10 potential questions that a MAANG company might ask an entry-level software engineer with 1–3 years experience during an interview:

1 — System Design

“Design a URL shortening service like bit.ly.”

Let’s write a very naive implementation to understand the basic functionality.

class URLShortener:
    def __init__(self):
        self.urls = {}

    def shorten_url(self, long_url):
        short_url = str(hash(long_url))
        self.urls[short_url] = long_url
        return short_url

    def get_long_url(self, short_url):
        return self.urls.get(short_url, None)