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60-Minute CoderPad Maze Crawl Over HTTP, No Pass

RampSoftware Engineer · Technical Screen · Sep 2026

Format: 60 min, live coding in CoderPad. Problem: You're given a base URL for a "maze" served over HTTP. A GET on the base URL returns JSON with a list of next step IDs: You then GET base_url/{step_id} for each step, which returns more next steps. You need to explore until you find the exit. Things to handle: Dead ends: {"next_steps": []} Flaky server: some requests return Service Temporarily Una…

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