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The most complex thing I had to develop was a Docker-based project, where I would simulate drones and report all that to a message broker (RabbitMQ in this case) and then display the location, speed, ID and highlight the moving drones that had not been moving for more than 10 seconds in a single-page dashboard.
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Software Engineer, Backend

Interviewed at balena

3.9
Sep 2, 2018

The most complex thing I had to develop was a Docker-based project, where I would simulate drones and report all that to a message broker (RabbitMQ in this case) and then display the location, speed, ID and highlight the moving drones that had not been moving for more than 10 seconds in a single-page dashboard.

Implement a simple version of Brex’s backend (check if card has enough remaining balance to accept incoming transaction) using database. After that, think about fraud detection, if all you have is the information about the transaction.
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Software Engineer, Backend

Interviewed at Brex

3.9
Dec 21, 2018

Implement a simple version of Brex’s backend (check if card has enough remaining balance to accept incoming transaction) using database. After that, think about fraud detection, if all you have is the information about the transaction.

Determine whether a circular array with magic indexes contains a full circle. The array is circular in the sense that, the entry A[i] points to entry A[A[i]]. Full circle means it covers all the elements of the array. As a follow-up, I was asked to solve the problem in O(1) space. Example: Input: [2,3,1,4,0], Output: true Input: [2,3,2,4,9], Output: false
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Software Engineer, Backend

Interviewed at Zalando

3.6
Jan 9, 2019

Determine whether a circular array with magic indexes contains a full circle. The array is circular in the sense that, the entry A[i] points to entry A[A[i]]. Full circle means it covers all the elements of the array. As a follow-up, I was asked to solve the problem in O(1) space. Example: Input: [2,3,1,4,0], Output: true Input: [2,3,2,4,9], Output: false

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