Stripe
Payments infrastructure with sophisticated fraud detection and data systems.
4 Rounds
~21 Days
Hard
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Interview Question Bank
Data Engineer
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Coding
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hard
Implement an idempotent wrapper function for processing payment charges. If the same idempotency key is passed, it should return the cached result instead of reprocessing.
#Idempotency
#Caching
#Concurrency
Data Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Write a function to flatten a deeply nested JSON object representing a Stripe Charge object into a single-level dictionary with dot-separated keys.
#Recursion
#Data Transformation
#JSON
Data Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Given a list of merchant payout schedules represented as intervals (start_time, end_time), write a function to merge all overlapping intervals.
#Sorting
#Intervals
#Array Manipulation
Data Engineer
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Coding
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hard
Implement a token bucket rate limiter class that could be used to throttle requests to a data API.
#Rate Limiting
#Object-Oriented Design
#Concurrency
Data Engineer
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Coding
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hard
Write a function to detect cycles in a directed graph of financial transactions, which could indicate potential money laundering.
#Graph Theory
#DFS
#Cycle Detection
Data Engineer
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Coding
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hard
Given a continuous stream of payment amounts, write an algorithm to maintain and retrieve the median transaction amount within a sliding window of size N.
#Sliding Window
#Heaps
#Data Structures
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