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Negotiating a SaaS Enterprise Deal with a Fortune 500 Company
Your task is to prepare and execute a negotiation with the client's procurement team. You will be given a case packet with CloudFlow's pricing, costs, and strategic goals, as we…
- Enterprise Sales
- Procurement Negotiation
- Commercial Contract Negotiation
Negotiation - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Compare Kernel SVMs and Gradient Boosting on Imbalanced Tabular Data
You receive a 220,000-row anonymized loan-default dataset with mixed numeric and categorical features and a ~6% positive class. Train and evaluate (1) an RBF-kernel SVM with pro…
- Kernel Methods
- Gradient Boosting
- Model Selection
Machine Learning - CodeBeginnerNew
Structured Logging Migration for a Healthcare SaaS Monolith
Receive the current Lograge-flavored Rails logger and 3 sample log files (anonymized PHI). Design: a structured-log JSON schema (request_id, user_id, route, status, duration_ms,…
- Structured Logging
- Loki
- Phi Redaction
Software Observability - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Pricing Strategy for a B2B SaaS Scale-Up
Your task is to analyze TaskFlow's current pricing, customer segments, and willingness to pay, then propose a tiered pricing model with clear feature differentiation. Constraint…
- Pricing Strategy & Elasticity
- Segmentation
- Financial Analysis
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- DesignIntermediateNew
Instrument a Model Monitoring Stack from Scratch
Pick the priority product (recommend the customer-service RAG assistant, around 40k queries/day). Define monitoring signals: input drift (Evidently/NannyML), output quality (LLM…
- Model Monitoring
- Data Drift Detection
- LLM Evaluation
ML Engineering and Production ML - CodeIntermediateNew
VR Training Simulator for Power-Substation Switching
Receive a real switching procedure (anonymized: 14-step bay isolation), the safety regulation it references, and photos of the live substation bay. Build a Unity 6 + XR Interact…
- Vr Development
- Unity
- Xr Interaction
Virtual and Mixed Reality - CodeBeginnerNew
Building a Customer Segmentation Tool for a SaaS Scale-up
You are provided with a JSON file containing user data: user_id, total_logins, days_since_last_login, features_used (count), subscription_tier (free/basic/premium). Your task is…
- Python Or Javascript
- Pandas
- Scikit Learn
Programming for Business Applications - ResearchSeniorNew
Design a Distributed-Training Strategy for a Mid-Sized LLM
You will write a 5-page design memo that picks a parallelism strategy for fine-tuning a 13B model on 32 H100 GPUs, with a tokens-per-second estimate, a memory-per-GPU calculatio…
- Distributed Training
- Parallelism Strategies
- LLM Training
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Frame the business question, model the options, build the recommendation. From market sizing to competitive analysis, this role is where strategy consulting meets in-house decision-making.
- AnalysisIntermediateNew
Run a Red-Team Exercise on a Cloud-Native Microservices Platform
Receive a scoped engagement letter (in-scope: 6 microservices and their CI/CD pipelines; out-of-scope: customer-data exfiltration beyond proof-of-access), the architecture diagr…
- Red Team Operations
- Kubernetes Security
- Lateral Movement
Computer Systems Security - StrategyIntermediateNew
Market Entry Strategy for a Tokyo D2C Cosmetics Brand in Europe
You are a strategy consultant hired by GlowTokyo. Your task is to analyze the European cosmetics market, identify the most viable entry mode (e.g., joint venture, e-commerce, or…
- Market Analysis
- Cross Cultural Strategy
- Entry Mode Analysis
International and Global Strategy - CodeIntermediateNew
Restore Smartphone Low-Light Photos for a Consumer AI App
You receive 200 paired low-light / well-lit phone photos plus 1,000 unpaired low-light photos. Build a pipeline that combines a learned denoiser (e.g. a small DnCNN-style model …
- Image Restoration
- Denoising
- Tone Mapping
Image Processing and Computational Imaging - DesignIntermediateNew
Design a Geo-Distributed Storage Layer for an EdTech
Map the access patterns (90 percent reads from the country of origin, 10 percent cross-country via teacher reviewers). Design region routing using a metadata service backed by a…
- Geo Distribution
- Data Residency
- Cockroachdb
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- CodeSeniorNew
Auditing a DeFi Lending Protocol for Vulnerabilities
You are provided with the Solidity source code for LendFlow's core lending pool contract and a simplified oracle contract. Your task is to conduct a manual security audit, focus…
- Solidity
- Smart Contract Auditing
- Decentralized Finance
Blockchain and Digital Assets - DesignSeniorNew
Design a Distributed Training Job for a 13B-Parameter Model
Decide whether to use Fully Sharded Data Parallel (FSDP), Tensor Parallelism, Pipeline Parallelism, or a hybrid; justify against the 13B-param + 32-H100 setup. Calculate memory …
- Distributed Training
- Fsdp
- Pytorch Or Tensorflow
Machine Learning Systems - CodeIntermediateNew
Supply-Chain Hardening: SLSA-Aligned Build Pipeline for an Apache Project
Audit the project's current release pipeline (GitHub Actions, release-script). Map the current state against the SLSA v1.0 requirements (source, build, provenance, dependencies)…
- Supply Chain Optimization
- Slsa
- Sigstore
Open Source Contribution and Maintainership - DesignFoundationalNew
Building a Cross-Functional Team for Innovation
Your task is to create a team charter and a 3-month team development plan. You must define the team's purpose, roles, norms, and decision-making processes. Additionally, you nee…
- Team Building
- Cross Functional Collaboration
- Conflict Resolution
Leadership - StrategyBeginnerNew
Scope a Demand-Forecasting Model with Operations Stakeholders
You receive recorded interview transcripts (or summary notes) for the three personas, plus a sample of the historical sales data. Map each stakeholder's pain to candidate ML pro…
- Stakeholder Framing
- Ml Problem Scoping
- Metric Design
Machine Learning in Practice - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Add Indexes to a Slow FinTech Reporting Database
Read the 6 reporting queries and capture their EXPLAIN ANALYZE output on staging (a refresh of prod, around 90M rows). Identify the minimum set of indexes that improves all 6 by…
- Indexing Strategy
- Query Optimization
- Explain Analyze
Introduction to Database Systems - StrategySeniorNew
Designing a Six Sigma Project for a Renewable Energy Manufacturer
You are given historical warranty data and production process maps. Your task is to create a comprehensive Six Sigma project charter including a problem statement, goal statemen…
- Six Sigma
- Lean Six Sigma Dmaic
- Measurement System Analysis
Quality and Productivity Management - CodeBeginnerNew
Build a Crop-Disease Classifier for a Smallholder Agritech Startup
You receive a curated 22,000-image cassava-disease dataset across 5 classes (4 diseases + healthy) plus a labeled 1,200-image held-out test set. Train a CNN classifier (start wi…
- Cnn Classification
- Cnn Architectures
- Transfer Learning
Deep Learning for Computer Vision - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Diagnose Modern Transport-Protocol Performance for an OTT Streamer
Receive the current delivery architecture (HTTP/2 origin + CDN), 4 weeks of Conviva-style QoE (quality of experience) metrics, and access to a synthetic-client harness (Linux + …
- Quic Http3
- Network Measurement
- Transport Protocols
Advanced Computer Networks - StrategyIntermediateNew
Procurement Strategy for a 40-Person SaaS Scale-Up
Design a procurement strategy for the company's cloud services (AWS, GCP) and key SaaS tools (e.g., Salesforce, HubSpot). Constraints: budget of €200k/year for cloud, must ensur…
- Strategic Sourcing
- Supplier Management
- Commercial Contract Negotiation
Supply Chain Management - ResearchBeginnerNew
Curate a Domain Lexicon for a Climate-Tech NLP Stack
You receive 5,000 policy documents and a benchmark of 200 documents with manually tagged domain terms. Curate a lexicon of ~1,500 terms with (1) canonical English form, (2) Swah…
- Lexical Resources
- Named Entity Recognition
- Spacy
Linguistic Engineering and Language Technologies - CodeIntermediateNew
Build an Accessibility-First Visualization Component Library
Build a React + TypeScript component library exporting 4 chart components. Each component must: (a) be navigable by keyboard, (b) expose data via accessible name + ARIA descript…
- Accessibility (Wcag 2.2)
- Accessibility (Wcag 2.2)
- React
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