The Sneaky Twins
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
A genomics pipeline scans a long lowercase `sequence` for every place a short `marker` could be hiding, even when its bases have been shuffled into a different order. Return the starting index of every window of `sequence` that is as long as `marker` and holds exactly the same bases with the same counts.
Summary
They look different but they are the same inside.
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