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Asked at xAI • 5 days ago
Design a file upload feature for an AI chat application.
Coding
System Design
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Coding
System Design
Asked at xAI, Amazon, Atlassian + 18 more • 5 days ago
What is the project you are most proud of?
Behavioral
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Asked at xAI, Adobe, Anthropic + 18 more • 5 days ago
Implement LRU Cache.
IDE
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Data Structures & Algorithms
Coding
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Data Structures & Algorithms
Coding
Asked at xAI, OpenAI • 4 months ago
Design and implement an in-memory key-value store that supports set, transactional begin, commit, and abort operations.
Coding
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Coding
Asked at xAI, Amazon, Google + 2 more • 4 months ago
Design a rate limiter.
System Design
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System Design
Asked at xAI • 5 days ago
Design a task management system with tasks broken into sub-tasks.
System Design
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System Design
Asked at xAI • 4 months ago
Implement an iterator class that supports next, hasNext, getState, and setState, then extend it to treat a list of iterators as one continuous iterator with a global index.
Coding
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Coding
Asked at xAI, Databricks, ElevenLabs + 1 more • 4 months ago
Tell me about the accomplishment you are most proud of.
Behavioral
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Behavioral
Asked at xAI • 4 months ago
Given a large, partially implemented LLM/agentic codebase, identify the intended behavior and implement a missing function by reading and reasoning through the existing code, without explicit test ...
Artificial Intelligence
Coding
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Artificial Intelligence
Coding
Asked at xAI, Perplexity AI • 5 days ago
Why do you want to join an AI-first company?
Artificial Intelligence
Behavioral
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Artificial Intelligence
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