The Word Census
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 search-indexing job needs per-document word counts: take a document body as one whitespace-separated string and return a dict mapping each word to how many times it appears.
Summary
Who said what - and how many times?
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