Data Scientist Coding Interview Questions

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  • Apple logoAsked at Apple 
    Video answer for 'Find the container with the maximum volume of water.'

    "int getMaxWater(vector& nums) { int n = nums.size(); int mx = INT_MIN; int i=0, j=n-1; while(i<j) { int water = (j - i) * min(nums[i], nums[j]); mx = max(mx, water); if(nums[i] < nums[j]){ i++; } else { j--; } } return mx; } `"

    Richard W. - "int getMaxWater(vector& nums) { int n = nums.size(); int mx = INT_MIN; int i=0, j=n-1; while(i<j) { int water = (j - i) * min(nums[i], nums[j]); mx = max(mx, water); if(nums[i] < nums[j]){ i++; } else { j--; } } return mx; } `"See full answer

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    "Would be better to adjust resolution in the video player directly."

    Anonymous Prawn - "Would be better to adjust resolution in the video player directly."See full answer

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  • Adobe logoAsked at Adobe 
    Video answer for 'Find the median of two sorted arrays.'
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  • Adobe logoAsked at Adobe 
    Video answer for 'Move all zeros to the end of an array.'
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    "Initialize left pointer: Set a left pointer left to 0. Iterate through the array: Iterate through the array from left to right. If the current element is not 0, swap it with the element at the left pointer and increment left. Time complexity: O(n). The loop iterates through the entire array once, making it linear time. Space complexity: O(1). The algorithm operates in-place, modifying the input array directly without using additional data structures. "

    Avon T. - "Initialize left pointer: Set a left pointer left to 0. Iterate through the array: Iterate through the array from left to right. If the current element is not 0, swap it with the element at the left pointer and increment left. Time complexity: O(n). The loop iterates through the entire array once, making it linear time. Space complexity: O(1). The algorithm operates in-place, modifying the input array directly without using additional data structures. "See full answer

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  • "\# Definition for a binary tree node. class TreeNode: def init(self, val=0, left=None, right=None): self.val = val self.left = left self.right = right class Solution: def maxPathSum(self, root: TreeNode) -> int: self.max_sum = float('-inf')"

    Jerry O. - "\# Definition for a binary tree node. class TreeNode: def init(self, val=0, left=None, right=None): self.val = val self.left = left self.right = right class Solution: def maxPathSum(self, root: TreeNode) -> int: self.max_sum = float('-inf')"See full answer

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  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 
    Video answer for 'Implement k-means clustering.'

    "i dont know"

    Dinesh K. - "i dont know"See full answer

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  • Adobe logoAsked at Adobe 
    Video answer for 'Given an nxn grid of 1s and 0s, return the number of islands in the input.'
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    " from typing import List def getnumberof_islands(binaryMatrix: List[List[int]]) -> int: if not binaryMatrix: return 0 rows = len(binaryMatrix) cols = len(binaryMatrix[0]) islands = 0 for r in range(rows): for c in range(cols): if binaryMatrixr == 1: islands += 1 dfs(binaryMatrix, r, c) return islands def dfs(grid, r, c): if ( r = len(grid) "

    Rick E. - " from typing import List def getnumberof_islands(binaryMatrix: List[List[int]]) -> int: if not binaryMatrix: return 0 rows = len(binaryMatrix) cols = len(binaryMatrix[0]) islands = 0 for r in range(rows): for c in range(cols): if binaryMatrixr == 1: islands += 1 dfs(binaryMatrix, r, c) return islands def dfs(grid, r, c): if ( r = len(grid) "See full answer

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    "from typing import List def maxprofitgreedy(stock_prices: List[int]) -> int: l=0 # buying r=1 # selling max_profit=0 while rstock_prices[l]: profit=stockprices[r]-stockprices[l] maxprofit=max(maxprofit,profit) else: l=r r+=1 return max_profit debug your code below print(maxprofitgreedy([7, 1, 5, 3, 6, 4])) `"

    Prajwal M. - "from typing import List def maxprofitgreedy(stock_prices: List[int]) -> int: l=0 # buying r=1 # selling max_profit=0 while rstock_prices[l]: profit=stockprices[r]-stockprices[l] maxprofit=max(maxprofit,profit) else: l=r r+=1 return max_profit debug your code below print(maxprofitgreedy([7, 1, 5, 3, 6, 4])) `"See full answer

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  • Adobe logoAsked at Adobe 
    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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