A Million Moving Dots
A medium Pipeline Design mock interview question on DataDriven. Practice with AI-powered feedback, real code execution, and a hire/no-hire decision.
- Domain
- Pipeline Design
- Difficulty
- medium
- Seniority
- mid
Interview Prompt
We run a delivery marketplace where every active courier streams a location ping every few seconds, tens of billions of events a day at peak. Customers need a live map and ETA that updates within seconds of each ping, while finance settles courier payouts and merchant fees once a day and cannot tolerate a double-counted or dropped delivery. Design the platform that serves both the live tracking and the exactly-once daily settlement off the same firehose.
How This Interview Works
- Read the vague prompt (just like a real interview)
- Ask clarifying questions to the AI interviewer
- Write your pipeline design solution with real code execution
- Get instant feedback and a hire/no-hire decision