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MetaCoding

Python codingWebAssembly + public tests

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Detect any contiguous run with a target sum

Given an integer array and a target, decide whether some non-empty contiguous run adds up to exactly that target.

Practice focusRequirements - The first line holds the element count and the target, separated by a space; the second line holds the values. - Return True when at least one such run exists and False otherwise, with exactly that capitalization and no other text. - Values may be negative or zero, so a partial sum that drifts away from the target is not evidence that no run exists. - A single element equal to the target counts, and a run may include zero-valued elements. - Stop as soon as a match is found; later runs do not change the answer.…

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Python

MetaCoding

Python codingWebAssembly + public tests

Reported interview periodNot available

Water held between bars

Bars of width one stand along a line at the given heights. Return how many units of water stay trapped between them after it rains.

Practice focusRequirements - Line 1 is the bar count; line 2 lists the height of each bar from left to right. - The water above a bar is bounded by the shorter of the tallest bars on its left and on its right, minus the bar's own height. - Bars at the two ends hold nothing, and a stretch that only falls or only rises holds nothing. - Return the total as a decimal string with no per-bar breakdown and no trailing newline. - Heights are non-negative integers; the total fits in ordinary integer arithmetic. - An input with zero or one bar traps nothing.

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Python

MetaCoding

Python codingWebAssembly + public tests

Reported interview periodNot available

Resolve a cd target against a working directory

You are given an absolute working directory and the argument of a cd command. Return the absolute directory the shell would land in once ., .., and repeated separators are collapsed.

Practice focusRequirements - Line 1 is an absolute working directory; line 2 is the argument, which may be absolute or relative. - An absolute argument discards the working directory and is resolved from the root. - . keeps the current directory, .. moves to the parent, and climbing past the root stays at / . - Only a whole segment equal to . or .. is special; a name such as file..name remains one segment. - Return the path with one leading slash, no repeated or trailing separators, and / alone when nothing remains.…

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Python
Algorithms

MetaCoding

Python codingWebAssembly + public tests

Reported interview periodNot available

Palindrome after at most k deletions

Given a lowercase string and a deletion limit, decide whether removing at most that many characters can leave a palindrome while the surviving characters keep their order.

Practice focusRequirements - Line 1 is the string; line 2 is the integer limit. - Removing nothing is allowed, so a string that already reads the same in both directions always qualifies. - Each deletion is a single character, and characters that are kept never change position relative to each other. - On a mismatched pair, only two moves are worth trying: drop the left character or drop the right one. - Return true or false in lowercase, with no other text and no extra whitespace.…

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Topic tags
Python

MetaCoding

Python codingWebAssembly + public tests

Reported interview periodNot available

Words ordered by a custom alphabet

An ordering is supplied as a permutation of the letters. Decide whether the given word list is sorted according to that ordering.

Practice focusRequirements - Line 1 is the word count; that many words follow one per line; the final line is the ordering, a permutation of the twenty-six lowercase letters. - The final line is always the ordering, so the count line only says how many words precede it. - Compare adjacent words left to right and stop at the first position where the letters differ; the letter ranked earlier wins. - If one word is a proper prefix of the other, the shorter word must appear first. - Return true or false in lowercase, with no other text.…

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Topic tags
Python

MetaCoding

Python codingWebAssembly + public tests

Reported interview periodNot available

Segment text with a word list

Given a text and a small dictionary, decide whether the whole text can be written as a sequence of dictionary words, reusing a word as often as needed.

Practice focusRequirements - Line 1 is the text; line 2 is how many dictionary words follow, one per line. - Some inputs carry the two characters backslash and n instead of real line breaks; treat both forms as line separators before parsing. - Every character of the text must be covered in order by whole dictionary words; nothing may be skipped or reordered. - Words may be reused, and a word may be shorter than the remaining text but must match exactly at the current position. - Return true or false in lowercase, with no other text.…

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Topic tags
Python

OpenAICoding

Python codingWebAssembly + public tests

Reported interview periodSep 2026

Number search with delayed feedback

A hidden integer lies in the inclusive range 1..n, where n >= 1. The test fixture supplies a check(x) callback. Your code must not implement the callback and is not given the hidden integer.

Practice focusEach call to check(x) submits a new integer guess in 1..n , but returns the comparison result for the previous submitted guess: - the first call returns None ; - -1 means the previous guess was too high; - 0 means the previous guess was correct; and - 1 means the previous guess was too low. Implement: Return the hidden integer. The fixture validates the answer and permits at most 2 n.bit length() calls to check . Track which guess each delayed response describes; do not apply a response to the newly submitted guess.…

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Topic tags
Python
Algorithms
Data / SQL

OpenAICoding

Python codingWebAssembly + public tests

Reported interview periodJan 2026–Sep 2026

Implement 1-nearest-neighbor classification as a linear layer

You are given a matrix of labeled training examples and a batch of query examples. Implement squared-Euclidean 1-nearest-neighbor classification, then show that the same nearest-neighbor choice can be expressed…

Practice focusScenario You are given a matrix of labeled training examples and a batch of query examples. Implement squared-Euclidean 1-nearest-neighbor classification, then show that the same nearest-neighbor choice can be expressed as the output of an affine layer. For a query vector x and training vector x i : -||x - x i||² = 2x·x i - ||x i||² - ||x||² The final term is constant across all training examples for a fixed query, so it does not affect the winning index. This yields an affine score matrix with W = 2 X train.T and b i = -||x i||² .…

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Topic tags
Python
Algorithms

OpenAICoding

Python codingWebAssembly + public tests

Reported interview periodNov 2025–Sep 2026

Infection Spread on a Grid

A grid contains healthy cells (0) and infected cells (1). Each day, infection spreads simultaneously from infected cells to their four orthogonal healthy neighbors. Return the number of days until every suscept…

Practice focusRequirements - All initially infected cells spread at the same time. - Return 0 when no healthy cell exists initially. - Do not allow newly infected cells to spread again during the same day. - Handle empty grids and validate rectangular input. - Target O(rows cols) time and space proportional to the active frontier. In the second stage, cells marked 2 are immune: they never change and block propagation. Follow-ups 1. Add recovery after a configurable number of days. 2. Require at least q infected neighbors before a cell changes. 3.…

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Topic tags
Python
Data structures

OpenAICodingHalf AI-generated

Python codingWebAssembly + public tests

Reported interview periodJan 2026–Sep 2026

Aggregate Labels from Noisy Annotators

You receive labels from multiple annotators, with missing entries. Infer one binary label per item, identify annotators who systematically disagree with their peers, remove them, and recompute the labels.

Practice focusAssumptions Rows are annotators, columns are items, labels are 0 , 1 , or -1 for missing. Majority ignores missing entries and ties resolve to 1 . An annotator is bad when agreement with provisional labels on overlapping items is strictly below 0.5 . If gold is supplied, also return accuracy rounded to a stated precision. Requirements - Define behavior for items with no labels and annotators with no overlap. - Avoid treating missing values as votes. - Recompute the final majority after filtering. - State complexity and numerical representation.…

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Topic tags
Algorithms

OpenAICodingAI-generated

Talk-through codingNo local grader

Reported interview periodSep 2026

Deal and rank three-card poker hands

Implement the core of a three-card poker game. Cards are dealt to seated players one card at a time over three passes, then every hand is ranked and the winner or winners are returned.

Practice focusScenario Implement the core of a three-card poker game. Cards are dealt to seated players one card at a time over three passes, then every hand is ranked and the winner or winners are returned. Ranks increase from 2 through A . A deck contains one card for every rank and suit combination, and a card may be dealt at most once. Assumed interface The exact public API is intentionally flexible. One coherent option is: State any alternative interface before implementation.…

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Topic tags
Python

OpenAICoding

Python codingWebAssembly + public tests

Reported interview periodApr 2026–Sep 2026

Expiring compute-credit ledger

Implement a ledger for compute-credit grants and debits whose events may arrive out of order.

Practice focusEach grant has a unique ID, amount, activation timestamp, and expiration duration. A grant is available through its expiration boundary. subtract(amount, timestamp) consumes credits that expire soonest. get balance(timestamp) returns the balance that would have been available at that point in time by evaluating all applicable events in chronological order. Define deterministic behavior for duplicate IDs, insufficient balance, equal timestamps, and late-arriving events. Preserve enough history to answer past-balance queries correctly. Follow-ups 1.…

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Topic tags
Python
Data structures
Concurrency
Networking

OpenAICoding

Python codingWebAssembly + public tests

Reported interview periodFeb 2026–Sep 2026

IPv4 and CIDR Iterator

Implement an iterator that walks IPv4 addresses from a seed, either forward, backward, or within the seed's CIDR block.

Practice focusRequirements - Accept a plain IPv4 address or CIDR such as 10.2.3.4/24 . - Include the seed as the first result. - Forward iteration ends at 255.255.255.255 or the block broadcast address. - Backward iteration ends at 0.0.0.0 or the block network address. - Validate octets, prefix lengths, and direction; raise StopIteration after exhaustion. - Use integer address arithmetic rather than incrementing dotted components as strings. State whether network and broadcast addresses are included; for this problem, include both boundaries. Follow-ups 1.…

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Python

DatabricksCoding

Python codingWebAssembly + public tests

Reported interview periodDec 2025–Sep 2026

Generalized Tic-Tac-Toe

Implement a two-player game on a rows x cols board. A player wins by placing k consecutive marks horizontally, vertically, or along either diagonal.

Practice focusRequirements - Player 1 moves first and players alternate. - move places the current player's mark and returns that player number if the move completes a run of length k ; otherwise return 0 . - After a win, later calls return the existing winner without changing it. - Initially assume coordinates are valid and empty; explain how production code would reject invalid moves. - Support rectangular boards and k smaller than either dimension. - Avoid scanning the entire board after every move.…

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Topic tags
Python

DatabricksCoding

Python codingWebAssembly + public tests

Reported interview periodNov 2025–Sep 2026

Revenue Tracking with Direct Referrals

Build a customer revenue index. Each inserted customer has personal revenue and may name an existing customer as a referrer. A customer's total revenue is personal revenue plus the personal revenue of direct re…

Practice focusRequirements - Assign IDs starting at 0 in insertion order. - If a referrer is provided, update that customer's total by the new customer's personal revenue. - A customer's referrals do not contribute to its referrer's total; attribution is one level only. - The query considers totals at least min total revenue , orders by (total revenue, id) , and returns at most k IDs. - Validate non-negative revenue, valid referrers, and non-negative k .…

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Topic tags
Python
Data structures
Concurrency
Storage & state
Reliability

OpenAICodingHalf AI-generated

Python codingWebAssembly + public tests

Reported interview periodAug 2026–Sep 2026

Leased Work Queue with Dead-Letter Handling

Implement an in-memory queue whose jobs are reserved with expiring leases. A failed worker must not hold a job forever, and jobs that exceed their retry budget move to a dead-letter state.

Practice focusRequirements and assumptions - Jobs move among ready , reserved , completed , and dead . - reserve increments attempts and returns {item id, token} plus an internal deadline. - On explicit failure or lease deadline <= now , return the job to ready unless attempts reached max attempts ; then mark it dead. - Completion or failure with a stale token returns False without changing state. - Queue ready jobs deterministically and reject duplicate active IDs. - Validate positive limits and use the explicit clock supplied by callers. Follow-ups 1.…

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Topic tags
Python

MetaCoding

Python codingWebAssembly + public tests

Reported interview periodMar 2026–Sep 2026

Evaluate an arithmetic string

Write solve(raw: str) -> str that evaluates one arithmetic expression and returns its integer value as text.

Practice focusRequirements - The expression contains non-negative integers, single spaces, and the operators + , - , , and / . There are no parentheses, no unary minus, and no exponentiation. - and / bind more tightly than + and - ; work left to right inside each precedence level. - / is integer division that truncates toward zero, so -3/2 truncates to -1 if a lead-in subtraction makes the intermediate negative. - Ignore every space and read the run of digits between operators as one number.…

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Topic tags
Python
ML / AI

OpenAICodingHalf AI-generated

Python codingWebAssembly + public tests

Reported interview periodNov 2025–Sep 2026

Debug a minimal transformer computation

A small NumPy model produces incorrect attention outputs and fails to learn. Implement corrected versions of four operations used by a decoder-style model. The model dimension is small and attention uses one he…

Practice focusScenario A small NumPy model produces incorrect attention outputs and fails to learn. Implement corrected versions of four operations used by a decoder-style model. The model dimension is small and attention uses one head, so focus on tensor semantics rather than framework APIs. Interface Requirements pos embed Return token representations with positional embeddings added elementwise. Shapes must match or broadcast unambiguously. attention - Compute scaled dot-product attention using a scale of 1 / sqrt(d k) .…

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Topic tags
Python
Data structures
Security

DatabricksCoding

Python codingWebAssembly + public tests

Reported interview periodApr 2026–Sep 2026

Minimize Encryption Work in a File Tree

A file hierarchy contains directories and files. Some files are already encrypted. You may encrypt an individual file or issue one recursive encryption request for an entire directory. Choose operations with mi…

Practice focusRequirements and cost model - Encrypting one file costs t req + t file . - Encrypting a directory costs t req + N t file , where N is every file in its subtree, including already-encrypted files. - A subtree with no unencrypted files costs 0 . - At a directory, you may batch the whole subtree or solve its children independently. count files returns (encrypted count, unencrypted count) . The input is a finite tree of FileNode and DirectoryNode objects, with boolean encryption flags, no cycles or shared nodes, and non-negative integer costs.…

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Topic tags
Python
Algorithms

GoogleCoding

Python codingWebAssembly + public tests

Reported interview periodJan 2026–Sep 2026

Contagion in a Grid

A rectangular grid contains empty cells (0), fresh items (1), and contaminated items (2). At each minute, every fresh item sharing an edge with a contaminated item becomes contaminated. All changes within a min…

Practice focusImplement: Return the number of minutes required for every fresh item to become contaminated. Return 0 if there are no fresh items initially, and -1 if at least one fresh item is unreachable. Diagonal neighbors do not interact. Aim for O(rows columns) time and space. Staged follow-ups 1. Return the earliest arrival time for every reachable cell from multiple sources. 2. Introduce blocked cells and targets, returning the time when all targets are reached. 3. You may remove at most one shared blocker for the entire propagation.…

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Topic tags
Python
Algorithms
Concurrency

MetaCoding

Python codingWebAssembly + public tests

Reported interview periodJan 2026–Sep 2026

Shortest maze route with collected keys

Guide a walker from the start cell to the exit of a character grid, where locked doors stay shut until the matching key has been picked up, and report the fewest single-cell moves needed.

Practice focusRequirements - Line 1 gives rows cols . The next rows lines each contain exactly cols characters. - . is open floor, blocks movement, S is the start, and E is the exit. - Lowercase letters a through f are keys. Uppercase A through F are doors that require the key with the same letter. - E marks the exit and is never read as the door for key e . - A collected key is kept permanently, so the walker may revisit a cell with a different set of keys. - Each move changes the row or column by one. Entering a door without its key is not allowed.…

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Topic tags
Python
Algorithms

MetaCoding

Python codingWebAssembly + public tests

Reported interview periodJan 2026–Sep 2026

Stamp a supplied route onto a grid

Mark the open floor cells named in a coordinate list and return the resulting grid, leaving walls, the start, and the exit exactly as they were.

Practice focusRequirements - Line 1 is rows cols . The next rows lines are the grid, each exactly cols characters long. - A count follows the grid, then that many lines of row col . - Coordinates are zero-based and name the row first, then the column. - Replace a . at a listed coordinate with . If the cell holds S , E , , or is already , leave it unchanged. - Listing the same coordinate again has no additional effect. - Return the whole grid with each row on its own line, rows separated by a newline, and no extra text. - Every coordinate is inside the grid.…

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Topic tags
Python
Algorithms

MetaCoding

Python codingWebAssembly + public tests

Reported interview periodJan 2026–Sep 2026

Shortest route through directional cells

Compute the fewest orthogonal moves from the start to the exit of a grid containing cells that can only be entered while travelling in one particular direction.

Practice focusRequirements - Line 1 gives rows cols . The next rows lines each contain exactly cols characters. - is a wall, S is the start, and E is the exit. - can be entered only by moving right into it. < can be entered only by moving left into it. - The restriction applies when entering a directional cell. Once inside, the walker may leave in any direction. - S , E , and ordinary open cells accept entry from any side. - Each move goes one cell up, down, left, or right and costs one step.…

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Topic tags
Python

GoogleCoding

Python codingWebAssembly + public tests

Reported interview periodApr 2026–Sep 2026

Compute File-System Size

A file-system node is either a file with a non-negative byte size or a directory containing child nodes. Hard links are possible, so the same node object may be reachable by more than one path and cycles may ex…

Practice focusImplement: Return the sum of the sizes of all distinct reachable files. Count a node at most once even if multiple paths reference it. An empty directory has size 0 . You may identify nodes by stable object identity. Aim for O(V + E) time and O(V) auxiliary space, where V is the number of distinct reachable nodes and E is the number of child references. Staged follow-ups 1. Provide an iterative traversal for inputs too deep for recursion. 2. Add memoization for repeated directory-size queries. 3.…

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Topic tags
Python

MetaCoding

Python codingWebAssembly + public tests

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Detect any contiguous run with a target sum

Given an integer array and a target, decide whether some non-empty contiguous run adds up to exactly that target.

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Python

MetaCoding

Python codingWebAssembly + public tests

Reported interview periodNot available

Water held between bars

Bars of width one stand along a line at the given heights. Return how many units of water stay trapped between them after it rains.

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Python

MetaCoding

Python codingWebAssembly + public tests

Reported interview periodNot available

Resolve a cd target against a working directory

You are given an absolute working directory and the argument of a cd command. Return the absolute directory the shell would land in once ., .., and repeated separators are collapsed.

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Python
Algorithms

MetaCoding

Python codingWebAssembly + public tests

Reported interview periodNot available

Palindrome after at most k deletions

Given a lowercase string and a deletion limit, decide whether removing at most that many characters can leave a palindrome while the surviving characters keep their order.

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Python

MetaCoding

Python codingWebAssembly + public tests

Reported interview periodNot available

Words ordered by a custom alphabet

An ordering is supplied as a permutation of the letters. Decide whether the given word list is sorted according to that ordering.

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Python

MetaCoding

Python codingWebAssembly + public tests

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Segment text with a word list

Given a text and a small dictionary, decide whether the whole text can be written as a sequence of dictionary words, reusing a word as often as needed.

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Python

OpenAICoding

Python codingWebAssembly + public tests

Reported interview periodSep 2026

Number search with delayed feedback

A hidden integer lies in the inclusive range 1..n, where n >= 1. The test fixture supplies a check(x) callback. Your code must not implement the callback and is not given the hidden integer.

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Topic tags
Python
Algorithms
Data / SQL

OpenAICoding

Python codingWebAssembly + public tests

Reported interview periodJan 2026–Sep 2026

Implement 1-nearest-neighbor classification as a linear layer

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Topic tags
Python
Algorithms

OpenAICoding

Python codingWebAssembly + public tests

Reported interview periodNov 2025–Sep 2026

Infection Spread on a Grid

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Python
Data structures

OpenAICodingHalf AI-generated

Python codingWebAssembly + public tests

Reported interview periodJan 2026–Sep 2026

Aggregate Labels from Noisy Annotators

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Topic tags
Algorithms

OpenAICodingAI-generated

Talk-through codingNo local grader

Reported interview periodSep 2026

Deal and rank three-card poker hands

Implement the core of a three-card poker game. Cards are dealt to seated players one card at a time over three passes, then every hand is ranked and the winner or winners are returned.

Public brief

Topic tags
Python

OpenAICoding

Python codingWebAssembly + public tests

Reported interview periodApr 2026–Sep 2026

Expiring compute-credit ledger

Implement a ledger for compute-credit grants and debits whose events may arrive out of order.

Public brief

Topic tags
Python
Data structures
Concurrency
Networking

OpenAICoding

Python codingWebAssembly + public tests

Reported interview periodFeb 2026–Sep 2026

IPv4 and CIDR Iterator

Implement an iterator that walks IPv4 addresses from a seed, either forward, backward, or within the seed's CIDR block.

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Topic tags
Python

DatabricksCoding

Python codingWebAssembly + public tests

Reported interview periodDec 2025–Sep 2026

Generalized Tic-Tac-Toe

Implement a two-player game on a rows x cols board. A player wins by placing k consecutive marks horizontally, vertically, or along either diagonal.

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Topic tags
Python

DatabricksCoding

Python codingWebAssembly + public tests

Reported interview periodNov 2025–Sep 2026

Revenue Tracking with Direct Referrals

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Python
Data structures
Concurrency
Storage & state
Reliability

OpenAICodingHalf AI-generated

Python codingWebAssembly + public tests

Reported interview periodAug 2026–Sep 2026

Leased Work Queue with Dead-Letter Handling

Implement an in-memory queue whose jobs are reserved with expiring leases. A failed worker must not hold a job forever, and jobs that exceed their retry budget move to a dead-letter state.

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Python

MetaCoding

Python codingWebAssembly + public tests

Reported interview periodMar 2026–Sep 2026

Evaluate an arithmetic string

Write solve(raw: str) -> str that evaluates one arithmetic expression and returns its integer value as text.

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Python
ML / AI

OpenAICodingHalf AI-generated

Python codingWebAssembly + public tests

Reported interview periodNov 2025–Sep 2026

Debug a minimal transformer computation

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Python
Data structures
Security

DatabricksCoding

Python codingWebAssembly + public tests

Reported interview periodApr 2026–Sep 2026

Minimize Encryption Work in a File Tree

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Algorithms

GoogleCoding

Python codingWebAssembly + public tests

Reported interview periodJan 2026–Sep 2026

Contagion in a Grid

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Algorithms
Concurrency

MetaCoding

Python codingWebAssembly + public tests

Reported interview periodJan 2026–Sep 2026

Shortest maze route with collected keys

Guide a walker from the start cell to the exit of a character grid, where locked doors stay shut until the matching key has been picked up, and report the fewest single-cell moves needed.

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Python
Algorithms

MetaCoding

Python codingWebAssembly + public tests

Reported interview periodJan 2026–Sep 2026

Stamp a supplied route onto a grid

Mark the open floor cells named in a coordinate list and return the resulting grid, leaving walls, the start, and the exit exactly as they were.

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Topic tags
Python
Algorithms

MetaCoding

Python codingWebAssembly + public tests

Reported interview periodJan 2026–Sep 2026

Shortest route through directional cells

Compute the fewest orthogonal moves from the start to the exit of a grid containing cells that can only be entered while travelling in one particular direction.

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GoogleCoding

Python codingWebAssembly + public tests

Reported interview periodApr 2026–Sep 2026

Compute File-System Size

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Build a token-budget batcher
Sliding-window rate limiter
Interval calendar
Nested dictionary transforms
Command-log store
Dependency-ready scheduler
Streaming metric window
Evaluation slice aggregator
Build a reliable job runner
Build one adaptable decision story
Defend your role fit
Prepare one project deep dive
Design an evaluation artifact registry
Defend a reversible launch decision
Negotiate an ambiguous role scope
Trace a project from claim to evidence
Choose between two urgent priorities
Resolve a cross-functional disagreement
Own a consequential failure
Increase a team’s leverage
Warm a cold cache without a thundering herd
Ship a 500 GB checkpoint without a startup stampede
Make every document decision traceable to evidence
Share eight GPUs between two workloads with different promises
A mutable indexed sequence that must restart exactly
Trace a falling unit price to a rising bill
Keep a very long conversation usable while it streams
Design durable scheduled publishing
Make speculative code edits safe to accept
Recover a grouping rule from two-word phrases

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