Spotify
Music streaming platform using ML for personalization and recommendation.
4 Rounds
~21 Days
Hard
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Interview Question Bank
Data Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Write a Python function to find the top K most frequently played songs for a given user from a list of stream logs.
#Python
#Hash Maps
#Heaps
Data Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Given a list of user listening sessions with start and end timestamps, write a function to merge all overlapping sessions to calculate the total unique listening time.
#Python
#Intervals
#Sorting
Data Engineer
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Coding
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hard
Design a sliding window algorithm to count the number of streams a track received in the last 5 minutes, updating in real-time.
#Data Structures
#Queues
#Real-time Processing
Data Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Write a function to find the longest streak of consecutive days a user listened to a specific podcast.
#Python
#Arrays
#Hash Sets
Data Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Implement a rate limiter for a Spotify API endpoint that allows a maximum of 100 requests per minute per user.
#Token Bucket
#System Design
#Concurrency
Data Engineer
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Coding
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easy
Given a playlist of track durations, find if there are two tracks that add up to exactly a target duration (Two Sum variant).
#Python
#Hash Maps
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