90 minute take-home test: The take-home test was quite easy. I prefer not to give out their question. 30 minute interview with hiring manager: Basic CS questions about distributed computing and scaling type questions with some algorithm and network session and API type questions.
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I won't specify with the respect to the company's hiring processes. The 2 questions were "easy". After multiple requests to specify the context of the question (because based on that your answer can vary a lot), got nothing back but the repeated same question without any more details.
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Are you a gamer? Do you watch streams?
The Tether Challenge involves building a cryptocurrency data pipeline using JavaScript, Hyperswarm RPC, and Hypercore. It requires fetching price data for the top 5 cryptocurrencies (against USDt) from CoinGecko, calculating the average price from the top 3 exchanges, and handling data quality issues while minimizing storage requirements. The data must be stored using Hypercore/Hyperbee databases and be accessible via Hyperswarm RPC with methods for fetching latest and historical prices. A scheduling mechanism should automate the pipeline every 30 seconds, with on-demand execution also supported. The task emphasizes functionality over completeness within a 6–8 hour timeframe.
You are getting an Home assignment where you have to design and implement some kind of Repricer unit which listens on http endpoint and writes data to files every 1 second or 10 events whichever comes first
Some functions to implement such as 'toPairs' & 'fromPairs'.
They asked me to create one microservice or website similar to IMDb.com
What was the business impact of your most recent project?
Eugene Wigner, a physicist and mathematician who made important contributions to quantum theory, wrote a paper on the ‘unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics’. He stated that ‘the miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve’. What do you think Wigner means? Do you agree with him? Why?
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