Spotify
Music streaming platform using ML for personalization and recommendation.
4 Rounds
~21 Days
Hard
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Interview Question Bank
Backend Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Design an LRU (Least Recently Used) cache to store a user's recently played tracks. The cache should support get and put operations in O(1) time.
#Linked List
#Hash Map
#Design
Backend Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Design a hit counter that records the number of times a specific podcast episode was played in the past 5 minutes.
#Queue
#Design
#Time Series
Data Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Implement an LRU Cache to store a user's most recently played tracks.
#Linked Lists
#Hash Maps
#Object-Oriented Design
Full Stack Engineer
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Coding
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hard
Implement an auto-complete search feature. What data structures would you use to ensure sub-millisecond response times?
#Trie
#Search
Software Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Implement an LRU (Least Recently Used) Cache for a mobile client storing downloaded album covers. The cache must support get() and put() in O(1) time.
#Linked Lists
#Hash Maps
#Design
Software Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Implement a search autocomplete data structure for song titles. Given a prefix, return the top 3 most popular song titles that start with that prefix.
#Trie
#DFS
#Sorting
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