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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medium
Given a stream of Stripe webhook events in JSON format, write a function to parse the events and calculate the total successful transaction volume per merchant. Handle potential duplicate event IDs.
#JSON Parsing
#Deduplication
#Stream Processing
Data Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Write a program to parse a multi-gigabyte CSV of transaction records, filter out invalid rows, and aggregate totals by currency, using constant memory (O(1)).
#File I/O
#Memory Management
#Generators
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