Twitter interview questions

44 questions19 coding5 system design20 behavioral8 freeUpdated

This is every question in the Twitter guide, in one list: 19 coding problems, 5 system designs and 20 behavioral questions, drawn from what candidates report about Twitter interviews.

Each row shows the round it comes from and links to the lesson that works through it. 8 are free to read in full. The other 36 are Premium, and here you still see their round, difficulty and topic, so you know what you're walking into.

Twitter coding interview questions

19 problems, in the order the guide teaches them. Each lesson gives the full problem, a worked solution and the follow-ups interviewers tend to add.

1Tweet Volume Buckets: Tweet Counts Per FrequencyFreeMediumDesign a Data Structure
2The Home Timeline in Miniature: Design Twitter (LeetCode 355)FreeMediumDesign a Data Structure
3The Structure Becomes a Database: In-Memory Store with Nested TransactionsFreeMediumDesign a Data Structure
4A Random Live Tweet: Insert Delete GetRandom O(1)FreeMediumDesign a Data Structure
5Concurrent Timeline Cache: Thread-Safe LRUFreeMediumConcurrency & Thread Safety
6Producer-Consumer at Scale: Bounded Blocking QueueFreeMediumConcurrency & Thread Safety
7The Lost Deposit: Debugging a Data RaceFreeMediumConcurrency & Thread Safety
8Premium medium problemMediumArrays, Strings & Hashing
9Premium medium problemMediumArrays, Strings & Hashing
10Premium medium problemMediumArrays, Strings & Hashing
11Premium medium problemMediumTrees & Graphs
12Premium medium problemMediumTrees & Graphs
13Premium medium problemMediumTrees & Graphs
14Premium medium problemMediumHeaps, Top-K & Intervals
15Premium hard problemHardHeaps, Top-K & Intervals
16Premium medium problemMediumHeaps, Top-K & Intervals
17Premium medium problemMediumDynamic Programming
18Premium hard problemHardDynamic Programming
19Premium medium problemMediumDynamic Programming

Twitter system design interview questions

5 designs, each worked end to end in its own lesson, from requirements to the architecture and its trade-offs.

#Question
1Design the Home TimelineFree
2Design Trending Topics (Premium)
3Design a Rate Limiter (Premium)
4Design Notifications & Fan-out (Premium)
5Design Tweet Search (Premium)

A lock means the design is named here and its walkthrough is Premium.

Twitter behavioral interview questions

20 questions, grouped by what the interviewer is testing. The lesson explains why each one gets asked and what a strong answer covers.

Mission fit, or "why xAI" (4)

All 4 are Premium

Builder identity & ownership (4)

All 4 are Premium

Velocity & intensity (the hardcore reality) (3)

All 3 are Premium

First-principles problem-solving (3)

All 3 are Premium

Conflict & collaboration in a flat org (3)

All 3 are Premium

Failure & learning (3)

All 3 are Premium

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See all 44 Twitter questions by name

Premium opens the 36 locked questions on this page, each with the full prompt and a worked answer, and every other lesson in all 100 company guides.

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How many questions are in the Twitter interview guide?

44: 19 coding problems, 5 system designs and 20 behavioral questions. The guide was last updated in November 2026.

Which rounds do these Twitter interview questions come from?

All 19 coding problems come from the coding rounds. The 5 system designs and 20 behavioral questions come from the system design and behavioral rounds. Every row in the list carries its round, so you can start with the one you have booked.

Which Twitter interview questions are free?

8 of the 44 are free to read in full, marked Free in the list. The other 36 come with Premium, which also opens all 100 company guides.