Marlabs Technical Lead Interview Questions and Answers

Netflix system design involves microservices architecture, content delivery networks, recommendation algorithms, and user personalization.

• Microservices architecture for scalability and flexibility

• Content delivery networks for fast and reliable streaming

• Recommendation algorithms for personalized content suggestions

• User personalization for enhancing user experience

Builder design pattern is a creational design pattern used to construct complex objects step by step.

• Builder pattern separates the construction of a complex object from its representation.

• It allows the same construction process to create different representations of the object.

• Useful when there are multiple ways to construct an object or when the object creation process is complex.

• Example: StringBuilder in Java allows ...read more

JOIN query to retrieve country and employee name

• Use JOIN keyword to combine data from multiple tables

• Specify the columns to select from each table

• Use ON keyword to specify the relationship between the tables

Use lambda function to print greater number

• Define a lambda function that takes two parameters

• Use the max() function inside the lambda to compare the two numbers

• Call the lambda function with two numbers to print the greater one

OOPs concepts refer to Object-Oriented Programming principles like inheritance, encapsulation, polymorphism, and abstraction.

• Inheritance: Allows a class to inherit properties and behavior from another class.

• Encapsulation: Bundling data and methods that operate on the data into a single unit.

• Polymorphism: Ability to present the same interface for different data types.

• Abstraction: Hiding the complex implementation detail

Fibonacci series code in iterative and recursive methods

• Iterative method: Use a loop to calculate Fibonacci numbers

• Recursive method: Define a function that calls itself to calculate Fibonacci numbers

• Example for iterative method: int fib(int n) { int a = 0, b = 1, c; for(int i = 2; i <= n; i++) { c = a + b; a = b; b = c; } return b; }

• Example for recursive method: int fib(int n) { if(n <= 1) return n; return fib(n-1) + f

Use two threads to print numbers 1-10 in correct order

• Create two threads, one for printing odd numbers and one for printing even numbers

• Use synchronization mechanisms like mutex or semaphore to ensure correct order

• Example: Thread 1 prints 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 and Thread 2 prints 2, 4, 6, 8, 10

Unit testing in C++ involves writing test cases for individual units of code to ensure they work as expected.

• Use a unit testing framework like Google Test or Catch2 to write and run test cases

• Create separate test files for each unit of code being tested

• Use assertions to check the expected behavior of the code under test

• Mock dependencies or use dependency injection to isolate units for testing

• Run tests regularly to catc