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They asked me a high order retry function. It takes a function as an argument, returns whether or it failed. If it fails N(in this case 3) number of retries, it returns the fail and error. If it was successful it returns the result as well. Default arguments where you could pass in your own arguments for number of retries was optional.
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Senior Platform Engineer

Interviewed at Mapbox

3.5
Apr 12, 2025

They asked me a high order retry function. It takes a function as an argument, returns whether or it failed. If it fails N(in this case 3) number of retries, it returns the fail and error. If it was successful it returns the result as well. Default arguments where you could pass in your own arguments for number of retries was optional.

Without giving it away, basically a design problem that is comparing different data stored with pseudo conditions that has to result in a weighted result from comparing things. Not a hard question, but one so open that you can go in several directions on solving it.
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Senior Platform Engineer

Interviewed at Jobcase

3.4
Apr 9, 2015

Without giving it away, basically a design problem that is comparing different data stored with pseudo conditions that has to result in a weighted result from comparing things. Not a hard question, but one so open that you can go in several directions on solving it.

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