Merge Hundreds of Paginated Sorted Sources into One Deduplicated Record Stream

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Coding question that asks you to merge records from hundreds of offset/limit paginated sources into one globally sorted, deduplicated stream written one record at a time. It tests k-way merging with a heap, per-source page buffering, detecting source exhaustion, bounded-memory deduplication, and failure handling.

Merge Hundreds of Paginated Sorted Sources into One Deduplicated Record Stream

Company: Airwallex

Role: Software Engineer

Category: Software Engineering Fundamentals

Difficulty: medium

Interview Round: Technical Screen

Overview: Coding question that asks you to merge records from hundreds of offset/limit paginated sources into one globally sorted, deduplicated stream written one record at a time. It tests k-way merging with a heap, per-source page buffering, detecting source exhaustion, bounded-memory deduplication, and failure handling.

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Sep 10, 2026
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