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An Unconventional Python Tee Iterator Question

GoogleSoftware Engineer · Senior+ · Technical Screen · Aug 2026

Not sure if I just had bad luck, or if the L5 question bank is just different, but I got hit with a really unconventional question. No small talk, no self-introductions, straight into the coding problem. The task was to implement Python's tee iterator — you're given an iterator and need to return n independent iterators from it. I had to define my own functions and classes for it, so it had a bit…

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