6 inventory interview questions, asked at Amazon, Airbnb, Databricks and 2 more companies. Last asked Oct 2026.
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Design an online bookstoreSystem designDesign an online bookstore. Customers browse and search the catalog, keep a cart, check out and track their orders. Some books have little stock, and the store must never sell…
Last asked Oct 2026
Design a distribution-center inventory update serviceSystem designDesign a service that receives stock updates from distribution centers and keeps the latest quantity, availability and last-update time for every pair of location and item, with…
Last asked Sep 2026
Design an order fulfillment systemSystem designDesign the backend that takes an accepted customer order through to completion: reserve inventory, take payment, process the order in a warehouse (pick, pack), ship it and mark it…
Last asked Aug 2026
Fill an order from the oldest inventory batches firstCodingA warehouse stores stock in batches received at different times. Fill an order by taking units from the oldest batch first, moving to the next oldest as each one runs out. Report…
Last asked Aug 2026
Design a perishable-goods inventory and location trackerSystem designDesign a system that tracks perishable goods across a retail network: what is in stock, where each unit or batch is right now (warehouse, truck, store, shelf), and when it…
Last asked Jun 2026
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Cake order fulfillment checkCodingA bakery keeps three kinds of cake. Its stock is an array stock of length 3, where stocki is how many cakes of type i are on hand. Orders arrive one at a time in the list orders…