xAI Interview Questions

Ayinde B. - "I was working for my friend building streams at venues across the Chicago land area for FGC (fighting game tournaments), I adjusted and engineered his equipment to be set up permanently that's until covid came around at least. I used OBS to give visual appearances to stream watchers. So we're talking about subscribe, follow, and donation notifications and things of that nature for viewers to know they contributed in one of those ways. I set up proper sign-up scheduling for participants to lock t"See full answer

Ankush G. - "=>user => window {addfile(void * file, userID, chatID) => add to fileList=> Display(file pointer)} => file=> pointer to DB, thumbnail => file will stores in database, pointer to the file+ thumbnail to be visible to chat => file is associated with chat => chat : users list, notepad: post { , user posted} class file{ void * buffer = nullptr; string fileName = nullptr; public: file( void content, string filename ):fileName ("See full answer

Alfred O. - "We can use dictionary to store cache items so that our read / write operations will be O(1). Each time we read or update an existing record, we have to ensure the item is moved to the back of the cache. This will allow us to evict the first item in the cache whenever the cache is full and we need to add new records also making our eviction O(1) Instead of normal dictionary, we will use ordered dictionary to store cache items. This will allow us to efficiently move items to back of the cache a"See full answer

Pushkar G. - "Assumptions - Multiple reader/writer threads issue set() [with transaction] and get() operations concurrently All data can fit into memory. Requirements - Good performance (ex. less lock contention) Optimize memory footprint (ex. don't store stale entries in memory) Naive Approach - Wrap a standard hashmap/dictionary with reader-writer lock. We can also shard the map to reduce lock contention (ex. 32 segments for 32 core cpu) Allocate local buffer to a writer when a transacti"See full answer

Ashish G. - "Rate Limiter is to limit the number of request from a particular IP Address. Rate limiter will block the IP address to reduce the load on server. It should be highly available and handle concurrent requests. Blocked IP addresses should be kept in a pool which is present in shared cache. We need to keep threshold value after it reaches threshold value it should start blocking IP address. All these ip address to be kept in No SQL DB. Batch will run that will clear the cache and delete all the bloc"See full answer

K S. - "Which location you were interviewed? Can you please share some details?"See full answer

Amparo L. - "One Accomplishment I'm most proud of is that I graduated from Schaumburg High School In May of 2021 and I was able to get up the stage and collect my diploma. This was a HUGE Impact in regards of passing all of my classes and earning all of my credits in order to be apart of the NOW Arena graduation."See full answer