Classify Viewers by Movie Completion
Asked at Netflix · MLOps & Deployment · Difficulty: Easy · Last asked Mar 25, 2026
A streaming service logs a watch event whenever a viewer's progress through a movie is reported. To judge how well a newly launched movie is landing, the data team wants to know, for every viewer and movie, how far the viewer really got. Write a function that classifies each (viewer, movie) pair into a completion bucket from a raw, messy stream of those events.
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