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Software Engineer

Implement tail N lines

Question Implement a utility tail(path: string, N: int) (and an equivalent stream variant) that prints the last N lines of input without loading the w...

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291 people solved
Sep 6, 2025
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Medium
Software Engineer

Explain algorithm strategies and complexity

Explain algorithm strategies and complexity You are faced with a complex, potentially ambiguous coding problem. Describe how you would clarify require...

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94 people solved
Jul 26, 2025
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Process pod logs with global increments and pop-min

This question evaluates understanding of data structures—particularly priority queues/heaps—and techniques for efficiently handling global/bulk update...

Coding & Algorithms
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171 people solved
Feb 12, 2026
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Medium
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Implement File Tail and Sensor Health

This question evaluates skills in large-file streaming and buffer/pointer manipulation for tailing files, along with data-structure and time-window re...

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79 people solved
Jan 28, 2026
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Medium
Software Engineer

Rank songs by pairwise user preferences

You are given preference rankings for n users over m songs. Each song is labeled from 0 to m - 1. For each user i (0-indexed), you are given an array ...

Coding & Algorithms
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182 people solved
Nov 30, 2025
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Medium
Software Engineer

Implement Tail and Find Monster Cost

This entry contains two coding tasks from the same interview category. Task A: Implement a file tail operation Implement a function tail(filePath, n) ...

Coding & Algorithms
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65 people solved
Apr 29, 2026
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Medium
Software EngineerSenior+

Solve Signature, File, and Queue Problems

Solve the following interview-style problems: 1. Function signature matching You are given a registry of function definitions. Each function has an...

Coding & Algorithms
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48 people solved
Feb 22, 2026
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Medium
Software Engineer

Solve constrained monster traversal

Solve constrained monster traversal You are given a directed graph with n rooms labeled 0..n-1; each room i contains a monster with health hp[i] ≥ 0. ...

Coding & Algorithms
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116 people solved
Jul 27, 2025

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