12 curated coding interview questions directly asked in Square technical rounds, sorted by frequency with recency and difficulty diagnostics.
| ID | Problem | Difficulty | Topic | Pattern | Acceptance | Frequency | Recency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 999 | Available Captures for Rook | Easy | Core DSA | Implementation / Reasoning | 71.8% | 100.0% | all |
| 573 | Squirrel Simulation | Medium | Core DSA | Implementation / Reasoning | 57.4% | 100.0% | all |
| 2069 | Walking Robot Simulation II | Medium | Core DSA | Implementation / Reasoning | 43.2% | 100.0% | all |
| 139 | Word Break | Medium | Strings; Dynamic Programming | Hashing / Sliding Window; State Transition | 49.5% | 100.0% | all |
| 699 | Falling Squares | Hard | Core DSA | Implementation / Reasoning | 47.8% | 100.0% | all |
| 2768 | Number of Black Blocks | Medium | Core DSA | Implementation / Reasoning | 41.8% | 100.0% | all |
| 1814 | Count Nice Pairs in an Array | Medium | Arrays | Sorting / Prefix / Scan | 48.4% | 100.0% | all |
| 1861 | Rotating the Box | Medium | Core DSA | Implementation / Reasoning | 82.5% | 100.0% | all |
| 969 | Pancake Sorting | Medium | Arrays | Sorting / Prefix / Scan | 71.8% | 100.0% | all |
| 300 | Longest Increasing Subsequence | Medium | Dynamic Programming | State Transition | 59.4% | 87.5% | all |
| 490 | The Maze | Medium | Core DSA | Implementation / Reasoning | 60.4% | 62.5% | all |
| 271 | Encode and Decode Strings | Medium | Strings; Dynamic Programming; Stack / Queue | Hashing / Sliding Window; State Transition; Monotonic Stack / Simulation | 51.6% | 62.5% | all |