Higher Ground
A medium Python mock interview question on DataDriven, with an AI interviewer who asks follow-up questions and a hire or no-hire decision at the end.
- Domain
- Python
- Difficulty
- medium
- Seniority
- L4
Interview Prompt
You're scanning a buffer of unsorted sensor readings in `nums` for a peak: an index whose value is strictly greater than both of its neighbors. Return the index of any one such peak; the buffer can be large and lookups must stay logarithmic, so walking every reading is off the table.
Summary
Somewhere the ground stops climbing.
How This Interview Works
- Read the vague prompt (just like a real interview)
- Ask clarifying questions to the AI interviewer
- Write and run your Python against test cases
- Answer the interviewer's follow-up questions, then get a hire or no-hire decision