Beginner Challenges
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- StrategyBeginnerNew
Project Management Plan for a SaaS Product Launch
Develop a 6-week launch plan using appropriate project management methodology (Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid — justify your choice). Include: (1) Work Breakdown Structure with all…
- Project Management
- Collaborative Work
- Digital Business Models
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Right-Size a Real-Time Recommendation Serving Cluster
You receive 7 days of request-level telemetry (timestamp, latency, error code, pod) plus the existing Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) and node-group configs. Analyze traffic pat…
- Model Serving
- Kubernetes
- Autoscaling
Machine Learning at Scale - CodeBeginnerNew
Build Semantic Search for an Internal Engineering Wiki
You receive a Confluence XML export (~12k pages, ~80 MB of text) and a hand-labeled benchmark of 50 internal queries with ground-truth doc IDs. Chunk and embed the corpus with a…
- Embedding Models
- Vector Search
- Pgvector
Vector Databases and Embeddings - StrategyBeginnerNew
Design a Weekly Dynamic Pricing Strategy for GlowVienna
Design a weekly dynamic pricing strategy for GlowVienna's flagship serum that the team could realistically operate. Ground your work in the three materials provided: the histori…
- Pricing Strategy
- Demand Forecasting
- Data Analysis
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Demand Forecasting for a New York D2C Cosmetics Brand
You are a forecasting analyst at Glow NYC. Using provided monthly sales data (units sold) for 10 SKUs, develop a time series forecast for the next 3 months. Compare at least two…
- Time Series Analysis
- Forecasting
- Data Visualization
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Lead a Coordinated AI Feature Launch for an HR Software Startup
Using the company background brief and the draft feature specification provided, design a six-week launch plan covering four parallel workstreams: product readiness (acceptance …
- Product Launch
- Cross Functional Coordination
- Go To Market
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
A/B-Test a Recommender Improvement Without Breaking Trust
You receive offline-evaluation results for both the production and candidate models plus aggregate metrics from the last 12 weeks (recipe views, save rate, weekly active users, …
- Experiment Design
- Ab Testing
- Metric Design
Machine Learning in Practice - StrategyBeginnerNew
IP Strategy for a SaaS Scale-Up Moving Upmarket
You are an IP strategy associate at a boutique law firm. TaskFlow's CTO has asked for a strategic memo outlining how to protect their algorithm and brand. You must evaluate whet…
- Ip Law
- Patent Analysis
- Trademark Strategy
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Pricing Strategist
Set the price that captures value without leaving sales on the table. Demand modelling, willingness-to-pay research, and the disciplined experimentation that turns pricing into a competitive advantage.
- CodeBeginnerNew
CI/CD Pipeline for a SaaS Monorepo with 14 Services
Set up Nx (or Turborepo) for affected-graph computation. Configure remote build cache (S3-backed) so cached steps skip across runs and developers. Parallelize jobs in GitHub Act…
- Ci Cd
- Monorepo
- Nx
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Pricing Optimization for a Sustainable Fashion Brand
You are provided with historical sales data for similar products, including price, quantity sold, and cost. For each new product, you have estimated demand curves (linear or con…
- Excel Modeling
- Vba Programming
- Optimization
Spreadsheet Modeling and VBA - CodeBeginnerNew
AR Try-On Web Experience for a Mid-Cap Eyewear Retailer
Build a Three.js + MediaPipe Face Mesh prototype that runs in a mobile browser (Safari 17+ and Chrome 119+). Load 12 frame SKUs as glb (Graphics Language Transmission Format Bin…
- Ar Development
- Webxr
- 3d Interaction
Virtual and Mixed Reality - DesignBeginnerNew
Design a Lexer and Parser for a Customer Query Language
Using the grammar sketch, the query corpus sample, the Abstract Syntax Tree schema, and the edge-case suite provided to you, write a design proposal for a new lexer and parser t…
- Lexing
- Recursive Descent Parsing
- Abstract Syntax Trees
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Optimizing Last-Mile Delivery for a Lisbon Grocery Startup
Your task is to build a linear programming model (or heuristic) to assign orders to vehicles and sequence deliveries. Success means reducing average route length by at least 15%…
- Linear Programming
- Python
- Route Optimization
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Index a Slow 90-Million-Row FinTech Reporting Database
Your analysis task is to read the engineering ticket and the six reporting queries in the case file (M1), study the transactions table definition, column statistics, and write w…
- Indexing
- Query Optimization
- Explain Analyze
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Ship a Churn-Prediction Mini-Project End to End
You receive a 12-month anonymized dataset of subscriber events (logins, lesson completions, payment history, support tickets) for around 200,000 users. Define churn precisely (n…
- Feature Engineering
- Model Evaluation
- Gradient Boosting
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Build a Multi-Criteria Vendor Selection Tool for an AI Consulting Firm
You will design a Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA, a structured way to score options against weighted criteria) tool that accepts 6-10 vendor options, 6-12 weighted crite…
- Mcda
- Decision Support Systems
- Streamlit
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Build a Face-Anonymization Tool for a Civic-Tech Newsroom
Use a pretrained face detector (RetinaFace or YOLOv8-face is fine). Build a Python tool with a Gradio or Streamlit UI that: (1) detects faces in an uploaded photo, (2) shows det…
- Object Detection
- Image Processing
- Opencv
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Design a Hybrid Work Model for a Bangalore D2C Cosmetics Startup
Your task is to develop a hybrid work model for the startup. Analyze the current remote work challenges, propose a structured hybrid schedule (e.g., fixed office days, core coll…
- Hybrid Work Design
- Remote Team Management
- Organizational Culture
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Performance Optimization for a Slow Storefront
Run Lighthouse + WebPageTest baselines on 3 representative pages (home, product detail, cart). Set up Real User Monitoring (RUM) via Vercel Analytics or web-vitals.js. Ship 5 di…
- Web Performance
- Core Web Vitals
- Nextjs
Web Application Development - DesignBeginnerNew
Design a Playwright Checkout Test Suite That Blocks Bad Merges
Using the checkout incident export, identify the single most valuable happy path plus the six edge cases tied to the most frequent and most severe past incidents (for example fa…
- End To End Testing
- Playwright
- Ci Cd
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Design a Model-Monitoring Dashboard for an MLOps Platform
You receive realistic 30-day metric streams for three production models (a classifier, a regressor, and a ranker) including prediction volume, latency p50/p95, accuracy or RMSE …
- Dashboard Design
- Visual Hierarchy
- Chart Selection
Data Visualization - CodeBeginnerNew
Open-Domain QA over Product Documentation
You receive a snapshot of the documentation (Markdown) and 120 real support questions with the URLs of pages containing the answer. Build an open-domain QA pipeline: chunk the d…
- Open Domain Qa
- Passage Retrieval
- Reading Comprehension
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Afeela Joint-Venture Post-Mortem: Lessons in 50/50 Governance
Using the Afeela Joint-Venture Dossier (afeela-dossier) as your primary record, the Benchmark Joint-Venture Capsules (benchmark-jv-capsules) for comparison, and the Sony Honda M…
- Joint Venture Analysis
- Governance Design
- Case Research
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
SAP HCM Implementation for a 40-Person SaaS Scale-Up
Your challenge is to configure SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central for Cloudlytics. You will define organizational structure, position management, and employee master data. Then…
- SAP Successfactors
- Hcm
- Business Process Design
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