Twitter / X
Real-time social platform with petabyte-scale data and ML ranking systems.
4 Rounds
~14 Days
Hard
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Interview Question Bank
Software Engineer
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Technical
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medium
How does Redis handle memory eviction? Which eviction policy would you configure for a tweet cache and why?
#Redis
#Caching
#Memory Management
Software Engineer
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Technical
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hard
How would you profile and reduce the memory footprint of a high-throughput Go or Rust microservice handling tweet ingestion?
#Profiling
#Memory Management
#Go/Rust
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