Design enterprise file recommendations under ACLs

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Design a recommender that suggests the next files an enterprise user will open in a productivity suite, serving many tenants from shared infrastructure. Access controls must be enforced before ranking, with no data or model leakage across tenants, under a tight latency budget and continuously changing permissions.

Design enterprise file recommendations under ACLs

Company: Dropbox

Role: Data Scientist

Category: Machine Learning

Difficulty: medium

Interview Round: Technical Screen

Overview: Design a recommender that suggests the next files an enterprise user will open in a productivity suite, serving many tenants from shared infrastructure. Access controls must be enforced before ranking, with no data or model leakage across tenants, under a tight latency budget and continuously changing permissions.

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Oct 13, 2025
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