Coursera DSA Interview Questions

What Coursera asks in the DSA round

Coursera mixes medium DSA with a practical, product-flavoured coding round and a design discussion on content delivery, enrolment and progress tracking.

Across the 11 questions on this page, the weight sits on these patterns:

• Dynamic Programming — 3 questions · read the dynamic programming guide
• Math — 2 questions
• Database — 1 question
• Greedy — 1 question · read the greedy guide
• Recursion — 1 question
• Simulation — 1 question
• Sorting — 1 question
• Trie — 1 question

How to prepare for the Coursera interview

1. 1. Start at the top of the list above. The patterns are ordered by how often Coursera uses them, so the first two or three buy you the most coverage per hour.
2. 2. Solve by pattern, not at random. Doing eight dynamic programming problems in a row is what makes the ninth recognisable in an interview — jumping between topics does not.
3. 3. Tick problems off as you go so the gaps are visible. The per-pattern counts tell you which Coursera topic you have actually covered.
4. 4. Write the approach before the code. Coursera interviews are judged on the reasoning as much as the working solution.
5. 5. Pair this with the pattern guides when a topic is new, and the system design sheet if the role is senior enough to have that round.
6. 6. If this is a campus or off-campus drive rather than a lateral move, the placement preparation guide covers the stages around the DSA round — aptitude, core subjects and the HR interview — in the order they actually happen.

Coursera interview questions — FAQ

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