45 curated coding interview questions directly asked in Palo Alto Networks technical rounds, sorted by frequency with recency and difficulty diagnostics.
| ID | Problem | Difficulty | Topic | Pattern | Acceptance | Frequency | Recency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 355 | Design Twitter | Medium | Design | Data Structure Design | 44.7% | 100.0% | 30d |
| 359 | Logger Rate Limiter | Easy | Design | Data Structure Design | 76.8% | 100.0% | 3m |
| 2831 | Find the Longest Equal Subarray | Medium | Arrays | Sorting / Prefix / Scan | 38.1% | 100.0% | all |
| 146 | LRU Cache | Medium | Design | Data Structure Design | 47.4% | 100.0% | all |
| 706 | Design HashMap | Easy | Design | Data Structure Design | 66.6% | 87.5% | 3m |
| 49 | Group Anagrams | Medium | Strings | Hashing / Sliding Window | 72.6% | 87.5% | 3m |
| 1235 | Maximum Profit in Job Scheduling | Hard | Arrays | Sorting / Prefix / Scan | 54.7% | 87.5% | 3m |
| 141 | Linked List Cycle | Easy | Linked List | Two Pointers | 54.3% | 75.0% | 6m |
| 88 | Merge Sorted Array | Easy | Arrays | Sorting / Prefix / Scan | 54.9% | 75.0% | 6m |
| 2 | Add Two Numbers | Medium | Core DSA | Implementation / Reasoning | 48.5% | 75.0% | 6m |
| 33 | Search in Rotated Sorted Array | Medium | Arrays; Binary Search | Sorting / Prefix / Scan; Binary Search | 44.9% | 75.0% | 6m |
| 3 | Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters | Medium | Strings; Trees | Hashing / Sliding Window; DFS / BFS; Sliding Window | 39.1% | 75.0% | all |
| 155 | Min Stack | Medium | Stack / Queue | Monotonic Stack / Simulation | 58.2% | 75.0% | all |
| 443 | String Compression | Medium | Strings | Hashing / Sliding Window | 60.0% | 75.0% | all |
| 2086 | Minimum Number of Food Buckets to Feed the Hamsters | Medium | Arrays | Sorting / Prefix / Scan | 48.4% | 75.0% | all |
| 4 | Median of Two Sorted Arrays | Hard | Arrays; Heap | Sorting / Prefix / Scan; Priority Queue | 46.6% | 62.5% | all |
| 102 | Binary Tree Level Order Traversal | Medium | Trees | DFS / BFS | 72.7% | 62.5% | all |
| 12 | Integer to Roman | Medium | Strings | Hashing / Sliding Window | 71.0% | 62.5% | all |
| 692 | Top K Frequent Words | Medium | Strings; Heap | Hashing / Sliding Window; Priority Queue | 60.2% | 62.5% | all |
| 380 | Insert Delete GetRandom O(1) | Medium | Core DSA | Implementation / Reasoning | 55.4% | 62.5% | all |
| 93 | Restore IP Addresses | Medium | Core DSA | Implementation / Reasoning | 56.0% | 62.5% | all |
| 14 | Longest Common Prefix | Easy | Core DSA | Implementation / Reasoning | 47.6% | 62.5% | all |
| 394 | Decode String | Medium | Strings; Dynamic Programming; Stack / Queue | Hashing / Sliding Window; State Transition; Monotonic Stack / Simulation | 62.6% | 62.5% | all |
| 560 | Subarray Sum Equals K | Medium | Arrays | Sorting / Prefix / Scan | 47.3% | 62.5% | all |
| 252 | Meeting Rooms | Easy | Greedy | Greedy | 59.4% | 50.0% | all |
| 64 | Minimum Path Sum | Medium | Arrays; Trees | Sorting / Prefix / Scan; DFS / BFS | 68.2% | 50.0% | all |
| 139 | Word Break | Medium | Strings; Dynamic Programming | Hashing / Sliding Window; State Transition | 49.5% | 50.0% | all |
| 1 | Two Sum | Easy | Arrays | Sorting / Prefix / Scan; Two Pointers | 57.5% | 50.0% | all |
| 21 | Merge Two Sorted Lists | Easy | Arrays; Linked List | Sorting / Prefix / Scan; Two Pointers | 68.3% | 50.0% | all |
| 239 | Sliding Window Maximum | Hard | Arrays | Sorting / Prefix / Scan; Sliding Window | 48.8% | 50.0% | all |
| 224 | Basic Calculator | Hard | Stack / Queue | Monotonic Stack / Simulation | 46.9% | 50.0% | all |
| 226 | Invert Binary Tree | Easy | Trees | DFS / BFS | 80.1% | 50.0% | all |
| 20 | Valid Parentheses | Easy | Strings | Hashing / Sliding Window | 44.2% | 50.0% | all |
| 227 | Basic Calculator II | Medium | Stack / Queue | Monotonic Stack / Simulation | 46.9% | 50.0% | all |
| 43 | Multiply Strings | Medium | Strings | Hashing / Sliding Window | 44.2% | 50.0% | all |
| 112 | Path Sum | Easy | Arrays; Trees | Sorting / Prefix / Scan; DFS / BFS | 54.9% | 50.0% | all |
| 113 | Path Sum II | Medium | Arrays; Trees | Sorting / Prefix / Scan; DFS / BFS | 62.2% | 50.0% | all |
| 870 | Advantage Shuffle | Medium | Core DSA | Implementation / Reasoning | 54.6% | 50.0% | all |
| 332 | Reconstruct Itinerary | Hard | Core DSA | Implementation / Reasoning | 44.6% | 50.0% | all |
| 92 | Reverse Linked List II | Medium | Linked List | Two Pointers | 51.5% | 50.0% | all |
| 875 | Koko Eating Bananas | Medium | Binary Search | Binary Search | 50.0% | 50.0% | all |
| 1239 | Maximum Length of a Concatenated String with Unique Characters | Medium | Arrays; Strings | Sorting / Prefix / Scan; Hashing / Sliding Window | 54.8% | 50.0% | all |
| 5 | Longest Palindromic Substring | Medium | Strings; Trees | Hashing / Sliding Window; DFS / BFS | 37.8% | 50.0% | all |
| 56 | Merge Intervals | Medium | Arrays | Sorting / Prefix / Scan | 51.8% | 50.0% | all |
| 103 | Binary Tree Zigzag Level Order Traversal | Medium | Trees | DFS / BFS | 63.7% | 50.0% | all |