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
Given a massive JSON log file of track events that cannot fit into memory, write a Python script to filter out skipped tracks and aggregate the total play duration per artist.
#Python
#Generators
#File I/O
Data Engineer
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Coding
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easy
Write a script to parse a nested JSON payload representing a user's playlist and extract all unique genres, counting their frequencies.
#Python
#JSON
#Recursion
Data Scientist
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Coding
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easy
Write a Pandas script to merge two large datasets of user demographics and listening history, handling missing values appropriately.
#Python
#Pandas
#Data Cleaning
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