Intuit Software Engineer Interview Questions

Intuit·Software Engineer·Technical Phone Screen

Jul 2026

Intuit coding interview, 90 minutes, four questions covering a mix of graph problems, DP, and array fundamentals. Nothing too wild but the alien dictionary alone could eat up your whole session if you're not careful.

Implement a solution to determine the character ordering in an alien dictionary given a sorted list of words.
Solve the dungeon game problem where you must find the minimum initial health needed to reach the bottom-right of a grid.
Solve an easy prefix sum problem.
Find the median of an array.

“This one took most of my mental energy.”

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Intuit·Software Engineer·Technical Phone Screen

Jul 2026

Intuit software engineer interview with a parsing problem that looks simple but has a real edge case lurking in it. The kind of question where you feel good for about two minutes and then realize you missed something.

Given the output of `ls -l` passed through stdin, write a program that prints the file name of the entry with the largest file size. File names may contain spaces, and you should skip non-entry lines like `total N`.

“I went straight for splitting on whitespace and grabbing index 4 for the size, which works fine until you remember file names can have spaces.”

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Intuit·Software Engineer·Technical Phone Screen

Jul 2026

Interviewed for a software engineer role at Intuit and got a pretty standard digit manipulation problem. Nothing too wild but the carry propagation edge case is where people tend to slip up.

Given an array of digits representing a large integer (most significant digit first), add one to the integer and return the result as a digit array. Handle carry propagation and the case where the number grows an extra digit.

“The basic case is easy enough, just increment the last digit.”

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Intuit·Software Engineer·Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership

Jul 2026

Went through a behavioral round at Intuit for a software engineer role. Pretty standard stuff but the project impact question tripped me up more than I expected.

Walk me through your resume, focusing on your roles, what you were responsible for, and any measurable results you can point to.
Pick a recent project and walk me through your specific contribution, the decisions you made, what you had to trade off, and what the outcome was.
Give me one example each of taking ownership, collaborating with a team, and navigating a situation where things were unclear. What did you take away from each?

“I rambled.”

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Intuit·Software Engineer·Technical Phone Screen

Jul 2026

Product Analyst case interview at Intuit, centered on a funnel scorecard for a QuickBooks-style product with 15+ access points and very uneven traffic distribution. One meaty analytical scenario, no fluff.

You're looking at a funnel scorecard (Visit to Application Start to Application Complete to Paid) broken out by 15+ access points with heavily skewed traffic. What three insights would you surface, and how do you prioritize them by impact rather than just by rate?
How would you handle the long tail of low-traffic access points in your analysis? There are 15+ entry points and most have very little traffic.
Based on your insights from the scorecard, what product, experimentation, or data work would you recommend as next steps?

“This is where I tripped up a bit.”

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Intuit·Software Engineer·Technical Phone Screen

Jul 2026

Interviewed at Intuit for a software engineering role and got a string parsing problem that looked straightforward but had a few gotchas buried in the details.

Given a multiline string representing the output of 'ls -l', parse each line to extract the file size and the filename, then return the filename with the largest file size. Note that filenames can contain spaces.

“The spaces-in-filename part is what gets you.”

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Intuit·Software Engineer·Technical Phone Screen

Jun 2026

Coding round at Intuit for a software engineer role. One algorithmic problem with a follow-up that pushed into territory I wasn't totally prepared for.

You're given an array of digits representing a non-negative integer (most significant digit first, no leading zeros). Add 1 to the number and return the updated digit array.

“The base case tripped me up less than I expected.”

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Intuit·Software Engineer·Technical Phone Screen

Jun 2026

Intuit SWE interview with a grid pathfinding problem that sounds approachable until you actually think about it. The safeness factor framing tripped me up a bit before I got the right direction.

Given an n x n grid where some cells contain thieves, find a path from the top-left to the bottom-right corner that maximizes the minimum Manhattan distance from any cell on the path to any thief.

“My first instinct was pure BFS and I wasted a few minutes going down that road before realizing I needed to think about this differently.”

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Intuit·Software Engineer·Technical Phone Screen

Jun 2026

SQL-heavy technical screen at Intuit, one question but it had a lot of layers. Window functions plus LISTAGG plus normalization all in one problem felt like a lot to hold in your head at once.

Given a transactions table with a status column and a failure_reason column, write a query that produces a summary with: total transaction count, total amount, and an aggregated list of normalized failure reasons ordered by frequency, all grouped by status.

“This one took me a minute to break down.”

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Intuit·Software Engineer·Technical Phone Screen

Jun 2026

Interviewed for a software engineer role at Intuit and got a graph problem involving business relationship data. Had the right general idea but couldn't close it out under pressure, which was a rough way to find out my coding practice had some gaps.

Given business relationship data from a financial platform, implement a function that finds the degrees of separation between two businesses using the shortest path between them.
Why would you choose BFS over DFS for finding the shortest path between two nodes?

“The problem description was intentionally vague on argument and return types, so I had to ask clarifying questions before writing anything.”

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