Microsoft Coding Interview Questions

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Koko eating bananas.
2 years ago2 answers
Construct a binary tree given its preorder and inorder traversals.
+27 months ago11 answers
Given an array of integers and an integer k, find the kth largest element in the array.
7 months ago4 answers
Find the number of rotations in a circularly sorted array. Has video answer
6 months ago15 answers
Given a list of sentences, find the top n most frequent words.
2 years ago1 answer
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Given a binary tree, find the shortest path from the root to a leaf.
5 months ago
Implement a method to convert an integer to a string of bytes without using built-in helper functions.
5 months ago
Implement a function to justify a list of words within a given width.
2 years ago1 answer
Given a list of numbers, find the median without sorting the entire list. Hint: Use quick sort algorithm.
2 years ago
Determine if an array of integers from 1 to n contains a duplicate in constant time and space.
2 years ago2 answers
Given two empty jugs with capacities a and b liters and an infinite water supply, determine a way to end up with exactly X liters of water.
2 years ago1 answer
Given a list of transactions between friends, return the minimum number of transactions required to settle the debts. For e.g. Alice gave $5 to Bob and Bob gave $5 to Bill. Answer will be 1.
2 years ago
Top k frequent elements
+12 years ago1 answer
Write a PowerShell script to detect C2 beaconing.
9 months ago
Print all words from a dictionary that can be found on a given Boggle board.
4 years ago1 answer
What are the key concepts and operations associated with trees?
5 years ago

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Microsoft Coding Interview Questions

Koko eating bananas.

Construct a binary tree given its preorder and inorder traversals.

Given an array of integers and an integer k, find the kth largest element in the array.

Find the number of rotations in a circularly sorted array. Has video answer

Given a list of sentences, find the top n most frequent words.

Given a binary tree, find the shortest path from the root to a leaf.

Implement a method to convert an integer to a string of bytes without using built-in helper functions.

Implement a function to justify a list of words within a given width.

Given a list of numbers, find the median without sorting the entire list. Hint: Use quick sort algorithm.

Determine if an array of integers from 1 to n contains a duplicate in constant time and space.

Given two empty jugs with capacities a and b liters and an infinite water supply, determine a way to end up with exactly X liters of water.

Given a list of transactions between friends, return the minimum number of transactions required to settle the debts. For e.g. Alice gave $5 to Bob and Bob gave $5 to Bill. Answer will be 1.

Top k frequent elements

Write a PowerShell script to detect C2 beaconing.

Print all words from a dictionary that can be found on a given Boggle board.

What are the key concepts and operations associated with trees?

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