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Onsite Loop with a Paginated Fetch Design and a Job Scheduler

LyftSoftware Engineer · Onsite · May 2026

Onsite. They gave me a long chunk of existing code and asked me to implement a function based on it. Essentially there's a fetch(page) function that returns the items on that page along with the next page's nextPage. We needed to implement fetch_n as a method on another class, so that we could pull n elements continuously. Each call continues extracting from wherever the last call left off, so th…

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