The Word Counter
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
We're tallying vocabulary across free-text records. Given a string, return a dict mapping each word to how many times it appears, treating the text as whitespace-separated words.
Summary
How many times does each word show up in a file?
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