Staff Software Engineer, Performance, Platforms Infrastructure Engineering

Google

Imagine you are developing a racing game. You need to implement a system that determines the placement of each car in the race at any given moment. The race track is a circular track of a fixed length. Each car has a unique ID and a current distance traveled from the starting line. Design a function that takes a list of cars, where each car is represented by its ID and distance traveled, and returns the current placement of each car, considering the circular nature of the track. For example, if the track length is 1000 meters and a car has traveled 1200 meters, its actual position on the track is 200 meters. Consider edge cases such as multiple cars having the same position. Can you implement a function that efficiently calculates and assigns placements to the cars based on their positions on the track?

Google

Let's design a prototype for a system that answers questions based on financial documents. To make this concrete, imagine a user needs to quickly find information within a company's annual report (a PDF containing financial statements, management discussion, etc.). The user might ask questions like: What was the company's revenue for the last fiscal year? What were the primary risks identified by management? How did operating expenses change compared to the previous year? Describe your approach to building a prototype that can accurately and efficiently answer these types of questions. Consider aspects such as: Document ingestion and processing:** How would you load and pre-process the financial documents (e.g., PDF parsing, text extraction)? Information retrieval:** What techniques would you use to identify the relevant sections of the document that contain the answer? Question answering:** How would you extract the answer from the relevant text (e.g., using rule-based methods, machine learning models)? Data storage:** How would you store the information from the documents to allow for efficient querying? User interface:** How would the user interact with the system to ask questions and receive answers? Evaluation:** How would you evaluate the performance of your prototype?

Google

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