The Silent Locator
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
A read cache keeps record IDs in ascending order, but a maintenance job rotated the sequence at an unknown point, moving a block from the front to the back. Given this rotated `arr` of IDs and a `target`, return where `target` sits in `arr`.
Summary
Every lookup should cost you less than the one before it.
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