Netflix
Streaming platform with a data-driven culture and freedom & responsibility ethos.
3 Rounds
~14 Days
Hard
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Machine Learning Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Given a stream of movie IDs watched by users in real-time, write a function to return the top K trending movies over the last 1 hour. Optimize for high throughput.
#Heaps
#Sliding Window
#Stream Processing
Machine Learning Engineer
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Coding
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hard
You have K sorted lists of recommended movie IDs from different microservices (e.g., 'Because you watched X', 'Trending', 'New Releases'). Write an algorithm to merge them into a single ranked list based on a global score.
#Divide and Conquer
#Heaps
#Pointers
Machine Learning Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Given a list of TV shows and a list of dependencies (e.g., Show A must be watched before Show B), write a function to determine if it is possible for a user to watch all the shows without violating dependencies.
#Graphs
#Topological Sort
#Cycle Detection
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