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Back-to-Back Phone Screens, Binary Search on Logs and a 3 Requests/Second API Limit

AttentiveSoftware Engineer · Technical Screen · Sep 2026

I had two phone screens back to back. Coding: binary search on logs, a variant of a problem that is already on the forum. The twist is that the log timestamps can be duplicated, and the time window I have to return is all inclusive, [start, end]. Also, start and end can fall outside the time range of the current dataset. System design: it was kind of like pulling data from a third party, and I fi…

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