Stripe
Payments infrastructure with sophisticated fraud detection and data systems.
4 Rounds
~21 Days
Hard
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Interview Question Bank
Machine Learning Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Implement a Token Bucket rate limiter for an ML model inference endpoint to ensure a single merchant cannot overwhelm the scoring service.
#Concurrency
#System Design
#Object-Oriented Programming
Machine Learning Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Given a list of transactions with start and end timestamps representing chargeback dispute windows, detect if there are any overlapping dispute windows for a specific merchant.
#Intervals
#Sorting
#Arrays
Machine Learning Engineer
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Coding
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hard
Design a data structure to efficiently query the median transaction amount in a sliding window of the last N transactions.
#Heaps
#Sliding Window
#Data Structures
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