Front-end Engineering Interview Prep Course
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Nail Your Next Front-End Engineering Interview

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Designed and taught by FAANG+ engineers, this course will give you a foolproof preparation strategy to crack the toughest interviews at FAANG and Tier-1 companies. 

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What You’ll Learn in the Front-end Engineering Interview Course

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The basics of problem-solving and analytical thinking
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Key Data Structures and Algorithms from an interview perspective
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Core concepts of Front-end Engineering that are important for interviews
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Concepts in Scalable Systems Design (optional module)
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How to nail behavioral interviews at top companies
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A typical week at Interview Kickstart

This is how we make your interview prep structured and organized. Our learners spend 10-12 hours each week on this course.

Thu

Get foundational content
Get high-quality videos and course material for next week’s topic
Covers introduction to fundamentals, interview-relevant topics, and case studies
Attend timed test and review session
1-hour timed test covering essential interview questions on the current week's topics
1-hour timed test review session to discuss the test solution and other best practices

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Attend online live sessions
Attend 4-hour sessions covering interview applications of Front-end concepts
Each class covers a wide variety of interview problems, open-ended interview questions, and how to approach these questions
Live feedback from a Tier-1 tech instructor

Mon-Wed

Practice problems & case studies
Practice the concepts taught in live sessions to solve assignment questions
Work on interview-oriented interview problems and discuss the solutions
Live doubt-solving from FAANG+ Front-end instructors

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1:1 access to instructors
Personalized coaching from FAANG+ Front-end instructors
Individualized and detailed attention to your questions
Solution walkthroughs
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Front-end Engineering Course details and curriculum

Data structures and Algorithms
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5 weeks
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5 live classes
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Sorting

  • Introduction to Sorting
  • Basics of Asymptotic Analysis and Worst Case & Average Case Analysis
  • Different Sorting Algorithms and their comparison
  • Algorithm paradigms like Divide & Conquer, Decrease & Conquer, Transform & Conquer
  • Presorting
  • Extensions of Merge Sort, Quick Sort, Heap Sort
  • Common sorting-related coding interview problems
2

Recursion

  • Recursion as a Lazy Manager's Strategy
  • Recursive Mathematical Functions
  • Combinatorial Enumeration
  • Backtracking
  • Exhaustive Enumeration & General Template
  • Common recursion- and backtracking-related coding interview problems
3

Trees

  • Dictionaries & Sets, Hash Tables 
  • Modeling data as Binary Trees and Binary Search Tree and performing different operations over them
  • Tree Traversals and Constructions 
  • BFS Coding Patterns
  • DFS Coding Patterns
  • Tree Construction from its traversals 
  • Common trees-related coding interview problems
4

Graphs

  • Overview of Graphs
  • Problem definition of the 7 Bridges of Konigsberg and its connection with Graph theory
  • What is a graph, and when do you model a problem as a Graph?
  • How to store a Graph in memory (Adjacency Lists, Adjacency Matrices, Adjacency Maps)
  • Graphs traversal: BFS and DFS, BFS Tree, DFS stack-based implementation
  • A general template to solve any problems modeled as Graphs
  • Graphs in Interviews
  • Common graphs-related coding interview problems
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Dynamic Programming

  • Dynamic Programming Introduction
  • Modeling problems as recursive mathematical functions
  • Detecting overlapping subproblems
  • Top-down Memorization
  • Bottom-up Tabulation
  • Optimizing Bottom-up Tabulation
  • Common DP-related coding interview problems
System Design
3 weeks
3 live classes
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Online Processing Systems

  • The client-server model of Online processing
  • Top-down steps for system design interview
  • Depth and breadth analysis
  • Cryptographic hash function
  • Network Protocols, Web Server, Hash Index
  • Scaling
  • Performance Metrics of a Scalable System
  • SLOs and SLAs
  • Proxy: Reverse and Forward
  • Load balancing
  • CAP Theorem
  • Content Distribution Networks
  • Cache
  • Sharding
  • Consistent Hashing
  • Storage
  • Case Studies: URL Shortener, Instagram, Uber, Twitter, Messaging/Chat Services
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Batch Processing Systems

  • Inverted Index
  • External Sort Merge
  • K-way External Sort-Merge
  • Distributed File System
  • Map-reduce Framework
  • Distributed Sorting
  • Case Studies: Search Engine, Graph Processor, Typeahead Suggestions, Recommendation Systems
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Stream Processing Systems

  • Case Studies: on APM, Social Connections, Netflix, Google Maps, Trending Topics, YouTube
Front-end Domain Course
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JavaScript Language and Libraries

  • What to expect in a FAANG front-end coding interview: Company-specific aspects
  • Challenging JS coding problems: Behavior and usage of "this" keyword. How to bind a function's scope. Arrow functions vs. binding
  • Limiting the scope of variables (a commonly tested concept in interviews). Patterns for creating "private" variables
  • Use built-in JavaScript data structures to solve problems in a time-constrained interview setting. Explain trade-offs between using object literals, maps, sets, and arrays
  • Strategies to solve important problems involving concepts such as currying and callbacks
  • Popular FAANG interview questions on writing code that runs asynchronously, with and without promises
  • Frequently asked coding problems:
  • Existential get() operation using string key
  • Write a function that, until all N arguments are provided, returns a function for consuming more arguments (currying example)
  • Memoization of an async function
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UI and DOM

  • A structured approach to identifying and solving complex problems that require a combination of HTML, CSS, and JS knowledge (frequently asked in Front-end interviews)
  • How to handle unique UI challenges posed in FAANG interviews by setting up reusable UI components
  • How to consistently position items on the page or within a relative parent (an important skill for UI Developers)
  • Strategies to solve problems using modern JavaScript. Connect the code to the UI elements
  • Tips to efficiently design and code UI elements like Dropdowns, Tooltip, Progress Button, etc
  • Comprehensive guidelines on managing requirements of design-centric problems
  • Questions on using Flexbox to quickly solve complex design challenges
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Front-end System Design

  • ​​Design complex/large-scale Front-end Systems like Netflix, FB home page, Infinite Scroller, Instagram, etc
  • Popular FAANG interview question on designing a redux-like state management system from scratch
  • Design and build reusable UI Components: How common components system work
  • How to think, act and articulate like a Front-end architect and tech lead, displaying senior+ signals in System Design interviews using methodical and structured interview strategy
  • Evaluate options, perform trade-offs, and analyze the business impact of modern web development frameworks:
  • Essential understanding of popular UI libraries and frameworks such as React, Angular, etc
  • Portability across frameworks, platforms, devices
  • How to manage the state of a UI application (a demonstration of how to approach programming questions in the UI system design domain)
  • Design a common components library such as Bootstrap
  • Design a UI component SDK (a common theme in Front-end System Design interviews)
  • Industry trends within Front-end engineering and surrounding domains (AI/ML)
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Patterns, Tools, and Techniques

  • Non-trivial questions on Front-end fundamentals such as explaining the differences and trade-offs between several "A or B" techniques:
  • == vs. === and when to use each
  • Classical vs. prototypal inheritance
  • Functional programming vs. OOP
  • Storage: Cookies vs. localStorage vs. sessionStorage
  • How to implement solutions on top of an existing code solution that takes their score from 4 to 5:
  • Accounting for internationalization
  • Keyboard events and accessibility
  • Advanced CSS techniques: Positioning with translate and media queries
  • Challenging coding problems:
  • Animate away onClick
  • Animate away using tab and keyboard events
Career Coaching
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Interview Strategy and Success

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Behavioral Interview Prep

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Offers and Negotiation

Support Period
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6 months
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15 mock interviews

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Take classes you missed/retake classes/tests

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1:1 technical/career coaching

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Interview strategy and salary negotiation support

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Our highly experienced instructors are active hiring managers and employees at FAANG+ companies and know exactly what it takes to ace tech and managerial interviews.
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What makes our mock Interviews the best:

Hiring managers from Tier-1 companies like Google & Apple

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Career impact

Our engineers land high-paying and rewarding offers from the biggest tech companies, including Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Tesla, and Netflix.

Ian Hwang

Software Engineer
Placed at:
I attended IK and I've got a lot of knowledge that helped me get into Microsoft. Their Curriculum (algorithms and data structures) is organized very well and explanations are so helpful. And mock interviews and the feedback helped me a lot. It was worth it!

Neetika Srivastava

Software Engineer
Placed at:
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I really like how the program is structured and how it caters to different domains. It is really helpful. The patterns that they teach you at Interview Kickstart are really useful because you can apply those patterns to any new problem. Knowing those patterns, you can solve basically any question because you can relate it to problems you have already solved, which gives you confidence.

Chun Wu

Senior Software Engineer
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I joined iK after stumbling across it while reviewing some other interview prep materials after doing poorly in an interview at Linkedin. I knew that doing well in these interviews would require dedication and investment of my time - but with so many resources online I didn't have structure. This is what the IK platform provided me.

Shrey Shrivastava

Software development Engineer ll
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The Interview Kickstart course is very structured and informative. They teach you about DS and algo fundamentals very thoroughly and also prepare you for the software engineering interview. I really like the live classes by FAANG engineers, and the homework and tests definitely help you toprepare for a real interview. If you have been looking for a bootcamp that prepares you for software engineering interviews, I would say this is definitely the right place to do it.

Sridhar Gandham

Senior Software Engineer
Placed at:
My experience at IK was extremely positive. I was preparing for FAANG companies using the standard techniques that you find on the internet. When I started preparing, there was no structure to the madness. For example, a simple quicksort can be implemented in multiple ways. So solving a medium problem would take me about 30 minutes. The biggest benefit that I got from IK was a clear, structured way of solving problems. After IK, I could solve medium problems in 10 minutes!

Ibrahim Demidrogen

Software Engineer
Placed at:
IK is super helpful in cementing a lot of the basics and developing a deeper understanding of the core concepts that are essential to the interview process at any FAANG company. The foundation material is dense, but it is discussed at a swift pace. Omkar's instructional videos are very detailed and break down the essentials into small digestible components. The mock interview sessions are super helpful, especially for those who need additional guidance and help with defining their shortcomings.

Akriti Bhatt

Software Engineer
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Interview Kickstart is a great platform to perfect your basics and get a deep understanding of algorithms. These sessions helped me crack Google and several other companies.
Having struggled for a while to understand what I was doing wrong in interviews and how to behave during an interview, I took the help of 1-1 interview sessions with the mentors and the guidance provided by them helped me understand the problem with my approach.
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A Free Guide to Kickstart Your Front-End Engineering Career at FAANG+

From the interview process and career path to interview questions and salary details — learn everything you need to know about Front-End Engineering careers at top tech companies.
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What to Expect at Front-end Engineer Interviews

Front-end interviews typically test your coding abilities, UI programming skills, knowledge of Front-end frameworks and tools, and ability to build scalable interfaces for websites and applications.
While the interview process is similar at top companies, comprising an initial recruiter screen, the technical screen, and the on-site interview, there can be subtle differences in the number of rounds based on the company in question and seniority associated with the role.
Let’s look at what the Front-end interview process looks like in general.
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Recruiter phone screen
A 15- to 30-minute HR recruiter call to check your background, experience, and skills. The aim of this round is to find if you’re the right fit for the role.
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Technical screening
This interview round is an online screening round which is usually 45mnts to 1 hour long. You are asked a few behavioural questions and coding [DSA] problems during the technical screening round
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On-site round
The On-site interview involves four to five rounds in total, with dedicated rounds for coding, system design, Front-end domain concepts, and behavioral psychology. The on-site interview includes the following rounds/interviews:
  • Coding interviews (x2)
  • Design interview
  • Architecture interview
  • Career and behavioral interview

Front-end Interview Questions

The Front-end interview typically includes coding, design, and UI programming questions. Front-end interview questions include behavioral and leadership-based questions during the on-site interview.
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Front-end Engineering Interview Questions on Coding
Before we take a look at the most popular Front-end Engineer interview questions, let’s get acquainted with the basic coding skills a Front-end Engineer should be familiar with:
Here’s the list of Front-end Developer interview questions:
Write a program to print the left view of a binary search tree.
Write a program to compute the missing elements from a sequence for a 2-dimensional array.
Write a program to get the width of an inverted binary tree.
Write a program to find if a string is a Palindrome.
Write a program to find the shortest path between two points in a graph. 
Design a poll widget
How would you ensure clicking on this picture would go to a specific link?
Given a grid of characters, output a coded message
Implement a square root function
Given a grid of characters, output a coded message
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Domain-specific Front-end Interview Questions
Before we get into the most common Front-end Engineer interview questions, let's review the basic system design concepts that every Front-end Engineer should know:
  • Online Processing Systems
  • Batch Processing Systems
  • Databases and Network Protocols
  • API Modeling
  • Sharding, Loading, Caching
  • Concurrency
Here is the list of Front-end Engineering interview questions on system design and core Front-end concepts:
What design aspects would you consider while building a scalable application?
What design aspects will you consider while building a messaging service?
Explain the Front-end design for an e-commerce website.
What are some popular methods used in jQuery?
What techniques will you use to improve the performance of a new website?
How would you implement a news feed (which has only posts of text and pictures)?
How would you implement a photo album?
Design a general-purpose typeahead component
Design and code a Pinterest-style UI, where cards stack top/down and scroll infinitely
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Front-end Interview Questions on Behavioral Skills
Tell us about the most challenging project that you worked on.
Tell us about when you had to adapt to a new team.
Tell us about a time when you had to upgrade your current set of skills for a new project.
Tell us about a time when you disagreed with your manager regarding the direction of a project.
Tell us about a time when you shared your learnings with your team.
Talk about a recent/favorite project and some of the difficulties you had.
Talk about a time you struggled to work with one of your colleagues.
Tell us about a time you were given constructive feedback.
Tell us about a time you struggled on one of your software projects.
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Front-end Engineering Career path

Front-end Engineering provides excellent career opportunities for Engineers who want to advance their careers in Front-end development. This section discusses Front-end Engineering jobs at FAANG+ companies and what to expect from a typical Front-end Engineering job description.
Let's look at a list of skills required to fulfill the role's responsibilities.
General skills needed to become a Front-end Engineer:
Front-end Developers should have hands-on experience and in-depth knowledge of:
  • HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
  • C++/Java/Python
  • Angular/React/Polymer/Backbone/Closure
  • UI Design, System Design
  • Problem-solving in a limited time
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Front-end Engineer Job Requirements: Roles and Responsibilities
Front-end Developers specialize in website and UI design. They work in teams alongside Back-end Developers, graphic designers, and UX designers to ensure all elements of web creation are consistent. Front-end Developers are also responsible for website speed and other aspects of the user experience, making their role crucial to the performance of websites and applications.
To understand the role better, knowing the typical roles and responsibilities that the role entails is important. Let’s look at what responsibilities Front-end Developer jobs entail.
Front-end Engineers typically carry out the following tasks:
Work closely with UX Designers, Project Managers, and Back-end Engineers to implement versatile Front-end solutions to web development issues.
Advise, collaborate with, and synthesize feedback from UX designers and researchers
Deliver innovative, engaging prototypes using the latest in Front-end technologies
Implement web design principles to ensure that the website functions smoothly across devices and platforms
Design frameworks for creating user apps that grow with the needs of the company
Monitor website performance, monitor traffic drops related to site usability problems, and rectify issues.
Review app and feature codes, and plan future website upgrades with the development team
Optimize individual web pages for maximum speed and scalability
Utilize a variety of markup languages to write web pages
Explore product concepts to find promising directions that address both human and business needs
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Career Roadmap for a Front-end Engineer
The typical career progression for a Front-end role looks like the following:
Junior Front-end Developer/Engineer → Front-end Developer/Engineer → Front-end Developer/Engineer II → Senior Front-end Developer/Engineer → Staff Front-end Developer/Engineer OR Front-end Software Architect

Front-end Engineer Salaries and Levels at FAANG+ Companies

The average Front-end Developer salary in the US is $119,224, but the salary range typically falls between $106,922 and $130,083. Front-end salaries vary widely depending on many important factors, including education, certifications, additional skills, and professional experience.
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Meta Front-end Developer Salary
The average Meta Front-end Engineer earns $148,640 annually, which includes a base salary of $128,378 with a $20,262 bonus. This total compensation is $41,495 more than the US average for a Front-end Engineer.
Front-end Engineer salaries at Meta can range from $80,000 - $300,000, with equity ranging from 10-100K+.
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Level name
Total
Base
Stock (/yr)
Bonus
E3
US$184K
US$122K
US$42K
US$21K
E4
US$266K
US$163K
US$83K
US$23K
E5
US$386K
US$197K
US$156K
US$35K
E6
US$575K
US$230K
US$298K
US$51K
E7
US$922K
US$271K
US$582K
US$77K
E8
US$1.64M
US$310K
US$1.25M
US$82K
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Amazon Front-end Engineer Salary
The average Amazon Front-end Engineer earns $149,485 annually, which includes a base salary of $116,117 with a $33,368 bonus. This total compensation is $42,340 more than the US average for a Front-end Engineer.
Front-end Engineer salaries at Amazon can range from $86,400 - $210,000, with equity ranging from 0-100K+.
Front-end Engineer at Amazon
Average compensation by level
Level name
Total
Base
Stock (/yr)
Bonus
L4
US$166K
US$126K
US$22K
US$20K
L5
US$233K
US$154K
US$65K
US$20K
L6
US$337K
US$170K
US$157K
US$18K
L7
US$597K
US$183K
US$389K
US$39K
L8
US$859K
US$218K
US$641K
US$0
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Apple Front-end Developer Salary
The average Apple Front-end Engineer earns $132,640 annually, which includes a base salary of $115,617 with a $17,023 bonus. This total compensation is $25,495 more than the US average for a Front-end Engineer.
Front-end Engineer salaries at Apple can range from $87,000 - $170,000, with equity ranging from 0-100K+.
Front-end Developer at Apple
Average compensation by level
Level name
Total
Base
Stock (/yr)
Bonus
ICT2
US$163K
US$125K
US$26K
US$16K
ICT3
US$217K
US$147K
US$55K
US$18K
ICT4
US$315K
US$185K
US$106K
US$26K
ICT5
US$447K
US$217K
US$193K
US$39K
ICT6
US$738K
US$269K
US$409K
US$61K
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Netflix Front-end Developer Salary
The average Netflix Front-end Engineer earns an estimated $138,643 annually, which includes an estimated base salary of $120,969 with a $17,674 bonus. Netflix's Front-end Engineer compensation is $31,499 more than the US average for a Front-end Engineer.
Front-end Engineer salaries at Netflix can range from $67,000 - $215,000.
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Average compensation by level
Level name
Total
Base
Stock (/yr)
Bonus
New Sr. SW. Engineer
US$226K
US$206K
US$19K
US$20K
Sr. SW. Engineer
US$497K
US$491K
US$24K
US$353K
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Google Front-end Developer Salary
The average Google Front-end Engineer earns $156,806 annually, which includes a base salary of $121,898 with a $34,908 bonus. This total compensation is $49,661 more than the US average for a Front-end Engineer.
Front-end Engineer salaries at Google can range from $80,746 - $430,000, with equity ranging from 0-100K+.
Front-end Developer at Google
Average compensation by level
Level name
Total
Base
Stock (/yr)
Bonus
L3
US$191K
US$131K
US$39K
US$21K
L4
US$268K
US$159K
US$81K
US$29K
L5
US$357K
US$189K
US$133K
US$37K
L6
US$493K
US$225K
US$217K
US$57K
L7
US$696K
US$265K
US$350K
US$85K
L8
US$1.04M
US$332K
US$605K
US$120K

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