The Throttle Ceiling
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 public API throttles each client to at most `max_requests` calls within any `window_seconds`-long stretch. Given `calls`, the arrival timestamps in arrival order, return a parallel list of booleans that is True for each accepted call and False for each throttled one.
Summary
Too many requests in too short a timeframe. Throttle 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