The Config Blender
An easy 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
- easy
- Seniority
- L3
Interview Prompt
Configuration arrives in layers: a `base` config and an `override` that should win wherever the two collide. Merge them into one dict, except that where both sides hold a nested section at the same key, the sections combine rather than one replacing the other.
Summary
Config collision. The surviving values after a merge.
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