Google Data Structures & Algorithms Interview Questions

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  • Google logoAsked at Google 
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    "function preorderToInorder(preorder) { let inorder = []; let stack = []; let root = preorder[0]; stack.push(root); for (let i = 1; i 0 && stack[stack.length - 1] 0) { root = stack.pop(); inorder.push(r"

    Ugo C. - "function preorderToInorder(preorder) { let inorder = []; let stack = []; let root = preorder[0]; stack.push(root); for (let i = 1; i 0 && stack[stack.length - 1] 0) { root = stack.pop(); inorder.push(r"See full answer

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    Video answer for 'Merge k sorted linked lists.'
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    "A much better solution than the one in the article, below: It looks like the ones writing articles here in Javascript do not understand the time/space complexity of javascript methods. shift, splice, sort, etc... In the solution article you have a shift and a sort being done inside a while, that is, the multiplication of Ns. My solution, below, iterates through the list once and then sorts it, separately. It´s O(N+Log(N)) class ListNode { constructor(val = 0, next = null) { th"

    Guilherme F. - "A much better solution than the one in the article, below: It looks like the ones writing articles here in Javascript do not understand the time/space complexity of javascript methods. shift, splice, sort, etc... In the solution article you have a shift and a sort being done inside a while, that is, the multiplication of Ns. My solution, below, iterates through the list once and then sorts it, separately. It´s O(N+Log(N)) class ListNode { constructor(val = 0, next = null) { th"See full answer

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  • Google logoAsked at Google 
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    "check the count of both sentences if the same then start loop on words count and check the presence of words are the same."

    Suleman A. - "check the count of both sentences if the same then start loop on words count and check the presence of words are the same."See full answer

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  • Google logoAsked at Google 

    Permutations

    IDE
    Medium

    "function permute(nums) { if (nums.length <= 1) { return [nums]; } const prevPermutations = permute(nums.slice(0, nums.length-1)); const currentNum = nums[nums.length-1]; const permutations = new Set(); for (let prev of prevPermutations) { for (let i=0; i < prev.length; i++) { permutations.add([...prev.slice(0, i), currentNum, ...prev.slice(i)]); } permutations.add([...prev, currentNum]); } return [...permutations]"

    Tiago R. - "function permute(nums) { if (nums.length <= 1) { return [nums]; } const prevPermutations = permute(nums.slice(0, nums.length-1)); const currentNum = nums[nums.length-1]; const permutations = new Set(); for (let prev of prevPermutations) { for (let i=0; i < prev.length; i++) { permutations.add([...prev.slice(0, i), currentNum, ...prev.slice(i)]); } permutations.add([...prev, currentNum]); } return [...permutations]"See full answer

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  • "As we can pass info to only one child at a time, I told that from any given node, we have to pass the info to that child(of this node) which has the largest subtree rooted at it. To calculate the subtree sizes, I used DFS. And then to calculate the minimum time to pass info to all the nodes, I used BFS picking the largest subtree child first at every node. I couldn't write the complete code in the given time and also made a mistake in telling the overall time complexity of my approach. I think t"

    Lakshman B. - "As we can pass info to only one child at a time, I told that from any given node, we have to pass the info to that child(of this node) which has the largest subtree rooted at it. To calculate the subtree sizes, I used DFS. And then to calculate the minimum time to pass info to all the nodes, I used BFS picking the largest subtree child first at every node. I couldn't write the complete code in the given time and also made a mistake in telling the overall time complexity of my approach. I think t"See full answer

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    Machine Learning Engineer
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    "The height of a binary tree is the maximum number of edges from the root node to any leaf node. To calculate the height of a binary tree, we can use a recursive approach. The basic idea is to compare the heights of the left and right subtrees of the root node, and return the maximum of them plus one."

    Prashant Y. - "The height of a binary tree is the maximum number of edges from the root node to any leaf node. To calculate the height of a binary tree, we can use a recursive approach. The basic idea is to compare the heights of the left and right subtrees of the root node, and return the maximum of them plus one."See full answer

    Machine Learning Engineer
    Data Structures & Algorithms
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