At Takeda Pharmaceuticals, a Software Engineer plays a pivotal role in bridging the gap between cutting-edge technology and life-saving medicine. Unlike traditional tech companies where software exists in a vacuum, engineering at Takeda Pharmaceuticals directly impacts global health, patient care, and pharmaceutical manufacturing. Software engineers, computerized system validation (CSV) engineers, and process development engineers work in tandem to build, validate, and optimize digital solutions that power laboratory research, plasma manufacturing, and clinical trials. The digital ecosystem at Takeda Pharmaceuticals is highly sophisticated and heavily regulated. As a Software Engineer, you will contribute to critical platforms that manage complex biological data, automate upstream process development, and ensure compliance with global healthcare regulations. Whether you are developing custom Model-View-Controller (MVC) applications, deploying secure databases, or validating computerized systems for manufacturing plants in locations like Lexington, MA or Social Circle, GA, your work directly supports the supply chain of therapies that millions of patients rely on daily. Success in this role requires a unique blend of robust technical capabilities and a deep appreciation for the pharmaceutical domain.
Phone Screening
reportedInitial phone screening conducted by a talent acquisition recruiter focusing on background, work authorization, and salary expectations.
What to demonstrate
- Initial phone screening conducted by a talent acquisition recruiter focusing on background, work authorization, and salary expectations
- Depth in Technical Interviewing (Code/Oral Explanation)
How to prepare
- Be able to walk your CV end to end in two minutes, and say why this company specifically.
- Have your salary expectations, notice period and location constraints ready, and ask for the rest of the loop in writing.
Technical Phone Interview
reportedDetailed technical phone interview with the hiring manager discussing resume, projects, and domain familiarity.
What to demonstrate
- Detailed technical phone interview with the hiring manager discussing resume, projects, and domain familiarity
- Depth in Technical Interviewing (Code/Oral Explanation)
How to prepare
- Answer aloud and timed: What methodologies do you use to document test cases, and how do you structure validation protocols (e.g., IQ/OQ/PQ)?
- Answer aloud and timed: Tell me about a prototype you developed from scratch. What technologies did you choose and why?
Technical Task
reportedCandidates complete a technical task or case study, such as building a basic MVC program and providing documentation.
What to demonstrate
- Candidates complete a technical task or case study, such as building a basic MVC program and providing documentation
- Depth in Technical Interviewing (Code/Oral Explanation)
How to prepare
- Answer aloud and timed: How familiar are you with engineering drawings, and how do you utilize them when integrating software with manufacturing utilities?
- Answer aloud and timed: How would you design a data ingestion pipeline to collect real-time data from plasma manufacturing equipment?
Panel Interview
reportedComprehensive panel interview consisting of multiple rounds with case study presentation, technical Q&A, and behavioral assessments.
What to demonstrate
- Comprehensive panel interview consisting of multiple rounds with case study presentation, technical Q&A, and behavioral assessments
- Depth in Technical Interviewing (Code/Oral Explanation)
How to prepare
- Answer aloud and timed: Describe a scenario where you had to optimize a slow database query in a production environment. What was your diagnostic process?
- Answer aloud and timed: How do you design software systems to handle high availability and disaster recovery in a GxP-compliant cloud environment?
PracHub editorial advice for the preparation topics above.
Study Takedism deeply
Do not treat the company values as generic corporate jargon. Be ready to explicitly reference the Patient -> Trust -> Reputation -> Business decision-making framework in your behavioral answers.
Be ready for detailed code walkthroughs
Practice explaining your past code and architectural decisions orally. Ensure you can explain why you wrote a block of code a certain way and what the alternatives were.
Highlight your documentation discipline
In the pharmaceutical industry, undocumented work is considered work that was never done. Emphasize your commitment to writing clear specifications, test cases, and validation protocols.
Choose a category, try a prompt, then open its approach, worked solution or follow-up when you need it.
Canonicalise a request body into a stable idempotency fingerprint
idempotency_key.request_fingerprint is a SHA-256 over the method, path and canonicalised body, and a retry whose fingerprint differs must be rejected with 422 rather than served the stored response. Write the canonicaliser. Bodies are JSON up to 256 KB nested at most 32 levels; clients vary key order, whitespace and unicode escaping, and some send 64-bit ids as JSON numbers. Produce a deterministic byte string such that semantically identical bodies match and any semantic difference does not. State your complexity and name two normalisations you refuse to perform.
Approach
- Parse once into a tree, then re-serialise under fixed rules: object keys sorted, array order preserved, one escaping convention, no insignificant whitespace. Parsing is O(n) and sorting keys is O(k log k) per object, so O(n log n) overall with O(depth) stack, and the 32-level cap is enforced during parsing because hostile nesting is how a canonicaliser becomes a stack overflow.
- Sort keys by their UTF-8 bytes and say why the obvious implementation is wrong in some runtimes: a default string comparison that orders by UTF-16 code units places surrogate pairs, meaning code points from U+10000 up, below U+E000 to U+FFFF, which is not UTF-8 byte order, so two services written in different languages disagree on the same document.
- Do not re-encode numbers through a double. IEEE-754 binary64 represents integers exactly only up to 2^53, so normalising a 19-digit id through a float changes it, and 1 against 1.0 cannot be reconciled without deciding whether they are the same value. Preserve the literal token, and require ids as strings at the API boundary if you want them comparable.
- Reject duplicate keys rather than picking one. JSON permits them and parsers disagree, most keeping the last, so any choice you make ties the fingerprint to a parser detail that the code handling the request does not necessarily share.
Follow-up
- A client sends the same logical request with an extra field your API ignores. Same key, different fingerprint, so you return 422. Is that the right answer?
- Where does the fingerprint get computed relative to request decompression and the body-size limit?
Find overlapping job attempts and peak concurrency from lease records
A day of job_run history yields about 50,000,000 attempt records: (job_run_id, job_type, attempt, started_at, finished_at which is NULL when the worker died, lease_expires_at). Leases expire on a clock, so a job that outran its lease ran twice. Produce (a) every job_run_id whose attempts overlapped in wall-clock time and (b) the peak number of simultaneously running attempts per job_type with the minute it occurred. Target O(n log n). State how you treat a NULL finished_at and what clock skew does to your answer.
Approach
- Define the interval before sorting anything: an attempt occupies [started_at, COALESCE(finished_at, lease_expires_at)). finished_at is observed and lease_expires_at is only a promise, so every attempt without a finish contributes an estimate and the whole result is a lower bound on overlap rather than an exact count.
- For peak concurrency, sweep: emit 2n endpoints, sort by (timestamp, kind) with ends ordered before starts at equal timestamps, then walk the sequence maintaining a counter per job_type and record each type's maximum with its timestamp. O(n log n) dominated by the sort, O(n) space, or O(1) extra if the sort is external and the walk streams.
- For overlap detection, do not compare attempts pairwise. A single global sort by (job_run_id, started_at) gives both the grouping and the order; within a group, keep the maximum end seen so far and report an overlap exactly when the next start is less than that running maximum, which is one linear pass after the sort.
- Half-open intervals matter and are easy to get wrong: with closed intervals an attempt ending at the same millisecond another begins reads as concurrency two, and across 50,000,000 records that artefact swamps the real signal.
Follow-up
- A handler is not idempotent and you have found 400 overlapping jobs. Which of them actually caused damage, and what would you query to find out?
- Peak concurrency for one job_type is 4 against a configured cap of 4. Is the cap working, or is the data hiding attempts that never started?
Track a rolling failure rate per destination for circuit decisions
The egress service delivers about 1,500 webhooks per second across roughly 40,000 destinations, each call bounded by a 10 second timeout. Maintain, per destination, the failure rate over the trailing 60 seconds so a caller can ask before dispatch whether the circuit should open. Attempts arrive as (destination_id, finished_at_ms, outcome). Requirement: amortised O(1) per attempt, with total memory bounded by the destination count rather than by traffic. Give the structure, its exact memory, and the rule that stops a destination with three attempts from opening a circuit.
Approach
- Name the exact-deque version and then reject it as the default. Holding timestamps and advancing a tail pointer past anything older than now minus 60 seconds is a correct two-pointer window at amortised O(1) per attempt, but its memory tracks in-window traffic, so one destination in a retry storm holds hundreds of thousands of entries while thousands of quiet destinations hold none.
- Use a ring of 60 one-second buckets per destination, each bucket a pair of counters for attempts and failures. On an attempt, advance the ring by the elapsed whole seconds, zeroing at most min(elapsed, 60) buckets, then increment the head. That is amortised O(1) with a fixed footprint per destination.
- State the footprint: 60 buckets times two 4-byte counters is 480 bytes of payload per destination, so 40,000 destinations is roughly 20 to 25 MB with per-entry overhead, bounded by the catalogue rather than by the rate. The cost is granularity, since the oldest bucket ages out in whole seconds, which is far tighter than the decision needs.
- Require a minimum sample before the circuit may open. A destination with three attempts and three failures reads as 100 percent and is not evidence; a floor of roughly 20 attempts in the window makes the ratio meaningful, and below that floor use a run of consecutive failures as the trigger instead.
Follow-up
- The fleet is 30 instances and each sees roughly a thirtieth of a destination's traffic. Where does the rate actually live, and what does a per-instance answer get wrong?
- A destination answers in 9.5 seconds and succeeds. It is not failing but it is consuming your per-destination concurrency. What signal should open the circuit here?
Describe a scenario where you had to optimize a slow database query in a production environment. What was your
Describe a scenario where you had to optimize a slow database query in a production environment. What was your diagnostic process?
Approach
- Name the grain you start from and join outward from it.
- Check whether any join is one-to-many before aggregating, or the sums inflate.
- Say which index the query would use, and what makes it unusable.
- Handle the rows that do not match: that is usually the actual question.
Follow-up
- How does the query change if that join becomes one-to-many?
- What happens to this when the table is ten times larger?
Find version gaps and relay lag with window functions
outbox_event holds event_id, aggregate_type, aggregate_id, aggregate_version, event_type, payload, status ('pending','published','dead'), attempts, created_at, published_at. A projection is missing rows and you must decide whether the relay skipped events or the consumer dropped them. Write three queries over the last seven days: one listing every aggregate_id whose published aggregate_version sequence has a hole, one giving per-day counts with a running total, and one returning the newest published event per aggregate. For each, say where the window function is evaluated relative to WHERE and LIMIT. PostgreSQL 16.
Approach
- Gaps: compute lead(aggregate_version) OVER (PARTITION BY aggregate_id ORDER BY aggregate_version) in a subquery, then filter next_version <> aggregate_version + 1 in the outer query. Window functions are evaluated after WHERE, GROUP BY and HAVING and before the outer ORDER BY and LIMIT, so the predicate cannot sit in the same WHERE clause and PostgreSQL 16 has no QUALIFY.
- Say what the seven-day filter does to the answer: it truncates every partition, so the first row per aggregate has no predecessor inside the window and a hole spanning the boundary is invisible. Widen the window, or join to resource.version as the authority for the true maximum.
- Running total: SELECT date_trunc('day', created_at) AS d, count() AS n, sum(count()) OVER (ORDER BY date_trunc('day', created_at) ROWS UNBOUNDED PRECEDING). An aggregate inside a window call is legal because grouping runs before windowing. The grouping key is unique per row here so ROWS and RANGE agree, but write the frame anyway — over ungrouped rows with tied timestamps the default RANGE frame pulls in every peer row and the total jumps.
- Newest per aggregate: DISTINCT ON (aggregate_id) ... ORDER BY aggregate_id, aggregate_version DESC is the cheap PostgreSQL-only form when an index matches that order; row_number() OVER (PARTITION BY aggregate_id ORDER BY aggregate_version DESC) = 1 is the portable form and needs a subquery for the same evaluation-order reason as the gap query.
Follow-up
- Relay failover redelivers events. Does a duplicate break the gap query, and how would you detect one from this table alone?
- Turn the gap check into a continuous monitor rather than a query someone runs after an incident. What does it watch?
How do you design and deploy a basic MVC application, and what steps do you take to connect it to a live datab
How do you design and deploy a basic MVC application, and what steps do you take to connect it to a live database?
Approach
- Fix the scope first: who calls this, how often, and what they do when it fails.
- Name the read and write paths separately; they rarely have the same bottleneck.
- Choose a partition key and say what query it makes expensive.
- State the consistency you need, and where you are willing to be stale.
Follow-up
- What breaks first when traffic grows ten times?
- How does this behave when that dependency is down for an hour?
What methodologies do you use to document test cases, and how do you structure validation protocols (e.g., IQ/
What methodologies do you use to document test cases, and how do you structure validation protocols (e.g., IQ/OQ/PQ)?
Approach
- Clarify what is being asked and what a complete answer contains.
- State your assumptions explicitly before working the problem.
- Say what you would check first and why it is the highest-information step.
- Work from the requirement backwards to the design.
Follow-up
- What assumption would you test first?
- How would you know your answer was wrong?
How familiar are you with engineering drawings, and how do you utilize them when integrating software with man
How familiar are you with engineering drawings, and how do you utilize them when integrating software with manufacturing utilities?
Approach
- Say who the caller is and what they do when the call fails halfway.
- Define the identity of a request so a retry cannot double-apply it.
- Separate accepted, pending, failed and confirmed; they are different facts.
- Design the error taxonomy before the success shape; callers branch on it.
Follow-up
- What happens if the caller retries after a timeout?
- How does a client discover it is on an old version of this contract?
How would you design a data ingestion pipeline to collect real-time data from plasma manufacturing equipment?
How would you design a data ingestion pipeline to collect real-time data from plasma manufacturing equipment?
Approach
- Fix the scope first: who calls this, how often, and what they do when it fails.
- Name the read and write paths separately; they rarely have the same bottleneck.
- Choose a partition key and say what query it makes expensive.
- State the consistency you need, and where you are willing to be stale.
Follow-up
- What breaks first when traffic grows ten times?
- How does this behave when that dependency is down for an hour?
How do you design software systems to handle high availability and disaster recovery in a GxP-compliant cloud
How do you design software systems to handle high availability and disaster recovery in a GxP-compliant cloud environment?
Approach
- Fix the scope first: who calls this, how often, and what they do when it fails.
- Name the read and write paths separately; they rarely have the same bottleneck.
- Choose a partition key and say what query it makes expensive.
- State the consistency you need, and where you are willing to be stale.
Follow-up
- What breaks first when traffic grows ten times?
- How does this behave when that dependency is down for an hour?
Walk me through how you would orally explain the architecture of your most recent software project to a non-te
Walk me through how you would orally explain the architecture of your most recent software project to a non-technical stakeholder.
Approach
- Fix the scope first: who calls this, how often, and what they do when it fails.
- Name the read and write paths separately; they rarely have the same bottleneck.
- Choose a partition key and say what query it makes expensive.
- State the consistency you need, and where you are willing to be stale.
Follow-up
- What breaks first when traffic grows ten times?
- How does this behave when that dependency is down for an hour?
Edge instances grow 400 MB per hour until the nightly restart
Edge API instances start at 700 MB resident and grow about 400 MB/hour; a nightly rolling restart has hidden it for weeks. Growth continues unchanged when request rate halves overnight, p99 degrades in the last hours before an instance is recycled, and heap used immediately after a forced full GC rises monotonically. The service holds no product state. Name the discriminating measurement that separates the plausible causes, give the most likely cause, and give the fix and how you would verify it.
Approach
- Separate resident memory from live heap first, because they fail differently. Resident size can grow from fragmentation, native buffers or thread stacks while the heap is flat; heap used after a full GC rising monotonically is the measurement that says objects are reachable and not being released. You already have it, so this is retention, not fragmentation, and that closes off half the candidate list.
- Use the rate's independence from traffic as the discriminator. Growth that continues at half the request rate rules out per-request objects that are merely slow to collect and points at a structure that grows with distinct values observed rather than with call volume. Write the candidates that have that property: a metrics registry keyed on a high-cardinality label, an unevicted cache, an interner, a per-key lock map.
- Take two heap snapshots an hour apart and diff by retained size, reading the dominator tree, not by allocation count or instance count. Expect one root holding a map with millions of entries, then follow the reference chain to the code that inserts and never removes. Allocation profilers point at churn, which is the wrong signal here.
- The candidate that fits this service is an observability label carrying an identifier, such as a request path recorded before templating so that /v1/resources/48213 becomes its own metric series. That grows with distinct ids seen, is independent of rate, and explains the late p99 degradation, since GC cost rises with the size of the live set.
Follow-up
- Post-GC heap is now flat but resident size still creeps. What are you looking at, and does it matter?
- How would you have detected this before an OOM, given the nightly restart masked the trend?
Built from the rounds and topics Takeda Pharmaceuticals candidates report.
Prepare, practise & reflect
One practical outcome each day. Spend longer where you need it.
0 / 7 done01Map the Takeda Pharmaceuticals loop
- Write out the reported sequence: Phone Screening, Technical Phone Interview, Technical Task, Panel Interview.
- For each round, write one sentence on what it is judging, from the description above, and mark the one you are least ready for.
Deliverable: A one-page map of the 4 reported rounds, with the weakest marked.
02Work Technical Interviewing (Code/Oral Explanation)
- Spend the session on Technical Interviewing (Code/Oral Explanation), which Takeda Pharmaceuticals candidates report being tested on.
- Write one worked example in Technical Interviewing (Code/Oral Explanation) and time yourself on it.
Deliverable: One timed worked example in Technical Interviewing (Code/Oral Explanation).
03Work Regulatory/Compliance Knowledge (Healthcare)
- Spend the session on Regulatory/Compliance Knowledge (Healthcare), which Takeda Pharmaceuticals candidates report being tested on.
- Write one worked example in Regulatory/Compliance Knowledge (Healthcare) and time yourself on it.
Deliverable: One timed worked example in Regulatory/Compliance Knowledge (Healthcare).
04Work System/Domain Knowledge Testing
- Spend the session on System/Domain Knowledge Testing, which Takeda Pharmaceuticals candidates report being tested on.
- Write one worked example in System/Domain Knowledge Testing and time yourself on it.
Deliverable: One timed worked example in System/Domain Knowledge Testing.
05Answer out loud: Technical & Domain Expertise
- Answer aloud, timed: How do you design and deploy a basic MVC application, and what steps do you take to connect it to a live database?
- Answer aloud, timed: Explain your experience with computerized system validation (CSV) and how you ensure software complies with FDA regulations.
Deliverable: Spoken answers to 2 reported Technical & Domain Expertise question(s), under time.
06Answer out loud: System Design & Problem-Solving
- Answer aloud, timed: How would you design a data ingestion pipeline to collect real-time data from plasma manufacturing equipment?
- Answer aloud, timed: Describe a scenario where you had to optimize a slow database query in a production environment. What was your diagnostic process?
Deliverable: Spoken answers to 2 reported System Design & Problem-Solving question(s), under time.
07Answer out loud: Behavioral & "Takedism"
- Answer aloud, timed: Tell me about a time you had to navigate a difficult office relationship or a conflict within your engineering team. How did you resolve it?
- Answer aloud, timed: Describe a time when you faced a major technical setback or a project failure. How did you persevere and what did you learn?
Deliverable: Spoken answers to 2 reported Behavioral & "Takedism" question(s), under time.
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Behavioural rounds judge the decision you made and what it cost.
Explain your experience with computerized system validation (CSV) and how you ensure software complies with FD
Explain your experience with computerized system validation (CSV) and how you ensure software complies with FDA regulations.
Approach
- Pick a story where you made the decision, not one where you watched it.
- State the situation in two sentences and spend the rest on the reasoning.
- Give the blast radius: what could have broken, and what you measured.
- Name the disagreement and how you resolved it with evidence.
Follow-up
- What would you do differently if you ran that again?
- How did you know your change caused the improvement?
Tell me about a prototype you developed from scratch. What technologies did you choose and why?
Tell me about a prototype you developed from scratch. What technologies did you choose and why?
Approach
- Pick a story where you made the decision, not one where you watched it.
- State the situation in two sentences and spend the rest on the reasoning.
- Give the blast radius: what could have broken, and what you measured.
- Name the disagreement and how you resolved it with evidence.
Follow-up
- What would you do differently if you ran that again?
- How did you know your change caused the improvement?
Tell me about a time you had to navigate a difficult office relationship or a conflict within your engineering
Tell me about a time you had to navigate a difficult office relationship or a conflict within your engineering team. How did you resolve it?
Approach
- Pick a story where you made the decision, not one where you watched it.
- State the situation in two sentences and spend the rest on the reasoning.
- Give the blast radius: what could have broken, and what you measured.
- Name the disagreement and how you resolved it with evidence.
Follow-up
- What would you do differently if you ran that again?
- How did you know your change caused the improvement?
Describe a time when you faced a major technical setback or a project failure. How did you persevere and what
Describe a time when you faced a major technical setback or a project failure. How did you persevere and what did you learn?
Approach
- Pick a story where you made the decision, not one where you watched it.
- State the situation in two sentences and spend the rest on the reasoning.
- Give the blast radius: what could have broken, and what you measured.
- Name the disagreement and how you resolved it with evidence.
Follow-up
- What would you do differently if you ran that again?
- How did you know your change caused the improvement?
Why do you want to work at Takeda Pharmaceuticals, and how does your past experience prepare you to contribute
Why do you want to work at Takeda Pharmaceuticals, and how does your past experience prepare you to contribute to our patient-first mission?
Approach
- Pick a story where you made the decision, not one where you watched it.
- State the situation in two sentences and spend the rest on the reasoning.
- Give the blast radius: what could have broken, and what you measured.
- Name the disagreement and how you resolved it with evidence.
Follow-up
- What would you do differently if you ran that again?
- How did you know your change caused the improvement?
How do you prioritize your engineering tasks when business demands conflict with compliance or quality standar
How do you prioritize your engineering tasks when business demands conflict with compliance or quality standards?
Approach
- Pick a story where you made the decision, not one where you watched it.
- State the situation in two sentences and spend the rest on the reasoning.
- Give the blast radius: what could have broken, and what you measured.
- Name the disagreement and how you resolved it with evidence.
Follow-up
- What would you do differently if you ran that again?
- How did you know your change caused the improvement?
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Explain your experience with computerized system validation (CSV) and how you ensure software complies with FDA regulations.
- 02
Tell me about a prototype you developed from scratch. What technologies did you choose and why?
- 03
Tell me about a time you had to navigate a difficult office relationship or a conflict within your engineering team. How did you resolve it?
- 04
Describe a time when you faced a major technical setback or a project failure. How did you persevere and what did you learn?
How technical is the interview process compared to standard tech companies?
The technical rigor is comparable, but the focus is different. While standard tech companies focus heavily on LeetCode-style algorithmic puzzles, Takeda Pharmaceuticals prioritizes practical engineering, database deployment, system integration, validation, and domain-specific knowledge (such as CSV and GxP).
Takeda Pharmaceuticals Software Engineer candidate reports ↗What is "Takedism" and how much does it matter in the interview?
Takedism is Takeda's core philosophy based on Integrity, Fairness, Honesty, and Perseverance. It matters immensely. Your behavioral interviewers will actively look for examples of how you prioritize patient safety, build trust, protect the company's reputation, and drive business outcomes—in that exact order.
Takeda Pharmaceuticals Software Engineer candidate reports ↗Does Takeda offer remote work options for Software Engineers?
Yes, many software engineering and digital product roles offer hybrid or fully remote options depending on the team. However, roles closely tied to manufacturing plants (such as in Lexington, MA or Social Circle, GA) may require on-site or hybrid presence to collaborate with physical systems.
Takeda Pharmaceuticals Software Engineer candidate reports ↗How should I prepare for the technical case study or presentation?
Focus on clarity, structure, and documentation. If you are asked to present a past project, explain the business problem, your architectural choices, the validation/testing strategy you used, and how you collaborated with cross-functional stakeholders.
Takeda Pharmaceuticals Software Engineer candidate reports ↗What topics does Takeda Pharmaceuticals test in interviews?
Takeda Pharmaceuticals interviews most often cover Behavioral Interviewing, Communication Skills, Stakeholder Management, Problem Solving, and Machine Learning. The exact emphasis depends on the specific role you apply for.
Takeda Pharmaceuticals Software Engineer candidate reports ↗Sources & methodology 3 sources ↗
No official company page is cited. Rounds and questions come from candidate reports and PracHub editorial material; each source shows the date it was read.
- 01Takeda Pharmaceuticals Software Engineer candidate reports ↗
Company-reported rounds, questions and FAQ.
Candidate reports · Accessed 2026-09-22 - 02PracHub Software Engineer practice ↗
PracHub practice material, not company-reported.
PracHub page · Accessed 2026-09-22 - 03PracHub preparation framework ↗
PracHub preparation guidance.
PracHub page · Accessed 2026-09-22
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