Dropbox Interview Question

Design an image file retrieval API.

Interview Answers

Anonymous

Apr 19, 2019

In codepad, file IO is nonsensical...so my "solution" was full of fake APIs that could never actually be run. The punchline was to get to implementing an LRU cache for the API, which I had to sort of hint at in comments since the clock was running out.

Anonymous

Dec 15, 2020

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