Design Prefix-Aware Deduplication for Homepage Content Rows
Company: Netflix
Role: Software Engineer
Category: Software Engineering Fundamentals
Difficulty: medium
Interview Round: Technical Screen
Overview: Design homepage row construction that prevents content duplication across protected prefixes while retaining candidate order and within-row uniqueness. Extend the policy to per-row prefix lengths and exempt rows, with explicit shortfall behavior, deterministic processing, edge cases, and complexity.
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