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Asked at Amazon, Twitter • a year ago
Design a Tic Tac Toe game that allows remote play.
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System Design
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System Design
Asked at Amazon, Accenture, Apple • a year ago
Tell me about a time when you worked on a team and demonstrated leadership.
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Behavioral
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Asked at Amazon • 8 months ago
How do you make important decisions?
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Behavioral
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Behavioral
Asked at Amazon • 3 years ago
Find the shortest path in a graph.
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Technical
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"Use Dijkstra's Algorithm with priority queue"
Karthik R. - "Use Dijkstra's Algorithm with priority queue"See full answer
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Technical
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Asked at Amazon, Apple • a year ago
Find the palindromes.
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Data Structures & Algorithms
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"na"
Nishigandha B. - "na"See full answer
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Data Structures & Algorithms
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Asked at Amazon • 3 years ago
Design the front page of a newspaper app.
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Product Design
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"Front Page Layout Design for Newspaper App Header Section Logo: Displays at the top left. App Name: Displays alongside, so very prominent. Search Bar: Centered with search to find articles within the application. Navigation Menu: The links to the respective sections, World, Politics, Sports, Entertainment, and Opinion, etc Main Content Area Top Stories Carousel: It is a rotating banner that displays the top 3-5 news stories with images along with their headlines. Each story should be cl"
Midde V. - "Front Page Layout Design for Newspaper App Header Section Logo: Displays at the top left. App Name: Displays alongside, so very prominent. Search Bar: Centered with search to find articles within the application. Navigation Menu: The links to the respective sections, World, Politics, Sports, Entertainment, and Opinion, etc Main Content Area Top Stories Carousel: It is a rotating banner that displays the top 3-5 news stories with images along with their headlines. Each story should be cl"See full answer
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Product Design
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Asked at Amazon • 8 months ago
Tell me about a time you had an unpopular idea.
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Behavioral
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Behavioral
Asked at Amazon • 3 years ago
Given an array, print the Next Greater Element (NGE) for each element. The NGE for an element x is the first greater element on the right side of x in the array, or -1 if none exists.
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Data Structures & Algorithms
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"int a_array[10] = {3,6,4,7,2,1,9}; int index = 0; int index2 = 0; for ( index = 0; index < sizeof(a_array); index++ ) { int tmpindex = index + 1; if ( tmpindex <= sizeof(a_array) ) { for ( index2 = tmpindex; index2 < sizeof(a_array); index2++ ) { if ( aarray[index] <= aarray[index2] ) { print( "%d is the NGE of %d" array[index2], array[index]); break; "
Mark S. - "int a_array[10] = {3,6,4,7,2,1,9}; int index = 0; int index2 = 0; for ( index = 0; index < sizeof(a_array); index++ ) { int tmpindex = index + 1; if ( tmpindex <= sizeof(a_array) ) { for ( index2 = tmpindex; index2 < sizeof(a_array); index2++ ) { if ( aarray[index] <= aarray[index2] ) { print( "%d is the NGE of %d" array[index2], array[index]); break; "See full answer
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Data Structures & Algorithms
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Asked at Amazon • 3 years ago
How would you create a carousel using vanilla JavaScript?
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Technical
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"CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing) -- also known as supernetting -- is a method of assigning Internet Protocol (IP) addresses that improves the efficiency of address distribution and replaces the previous system based on Class A, Class B and Class C networks."
Ali H. - "CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing) -- also known as supernetting -- is a method of assigning Internet Protocol (IP) addresses that improves the efficiency of address distribution and replaces the previous system based on Class A, Class B and Class C networks."See full answer
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Technical
Asked at Amazon • 3 years ago
Find points closest to the origin.
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Technical
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"Use a min-heap or sort the array, either method works"
Kwaku K. - "Use a min-heap or sort the array, either method works"See full answer
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Technical
Asked at Amazon • 10 months ago
Tell me about a time where you needed to make a decision with many options and very little time.
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Behavioral
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Behavioral
Asked at Amazon • a year ago
Given an array of children’s ratings, assign at least one candy to each child so that higher-rated children get more than their neighbors, and return the minimum total candies needed.
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Coding
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Coding
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