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London Quant Firm Python SWE Interview
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localy
3 years ago
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projpre301
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Even though it seems like an easy question, string manipulation always trips me up. I would hate to get asked this in an interview.
visarga
3 years ago
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I give a harder problem and still think it's too easy.
localy
3 years ago
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Out of curiosity, what problem?
visarga
3 years ago
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Collocation detection in pure Python. It shows me how they load files, split texts, count and sort. No algorithmic surprises in there, but lots of basics are covered. Surprisingly many fall at basic coding.
Like this
https://python.plainenglish.io/collocation-discovery-with-pm...
projpre301
3 years ago
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Is it your expectation that the candidate completes all the tasks in 45 minutes to pass the interview? Or how much do they need to finish?