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The mockstagram api: In the PoC, minimally, I’d love to see the distribution of tasks between N workers. Meaning, say 1 worker is running locally, it should handle every influencer. If another worker starts up, it should be handling half the load.
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Senior Staff Engineer

Interviewed at Bazaarvoice

3.7
Sep 3, 2024

The mockstagram api: In the PoC, minimally, I’d love to see the distribution of tasks between N workers. Meaning, say 1 worker is running locally, it should handle every influencer. If another worker starts up, it should be handling half the load.

- Tell me about the last time you failed at your job - Tell me about something you believe in - How do you address conflict in a work environment - When choosing your next job, what does have a higher priority: tech stack or the problem? - A few questions about basic software dev concepts, like "what is immutability?", "what's a template string or a prepared statement?" - How would you build a platform that allows creating multiple orgs, uploading media and sharing that media within a specific org. Explain your choice of technology. How different would it be if media was: a) video footage only; b) documents like Google docs; c) both - Some questions about caching, caching eviction, load balancing and ACID compliance.
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Senior Staff Engineer

Interviewed at Veritone

2.1
Feb 22, 2022

- Tell me about the last time you failed at your job - Tell me about something you believe in - How do you address conflict in a work environment - When choosing your next job, what does have a higher priority: tech stack or the problem? - A few questions about basic software dev concepts, like "what is immutability?", "what's a template string or a prepared statement?" - How would you build a platform that allows creating multiple orgs, uploading media and sharing that media within a specific org. Explain your choice of technology. How different would it be if media was: a) video footage only; b) documents like Google docs; c) both - Some questions about caching, caching eviction, load balancing and ACID compliance.

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