Software Engineer Interview Questions

Divya R. - "public Double calculateRatio(String source, String destination) { Double ratio=1.0; while(graph.containsKey(source) && !visited.contains(source)) { visited.add(source); Map valueMap=graph.get(source); if(valueMap.containsKey(destination)) { return ratio*=valueMap.get(destination); } Map.Entry firstEntry=valueMap.entrySet().iterator().next(); source=firstEntry.getKey(); ratio*=firstEntry.getValue(); System.out.println("Entered"); } return null; }"See full answer

Rishabh N. - "I first asked few clarifying questions like the return array may need not contain the list of building in the same order, to which the interviewer agreed. Then I came up with an approach where we iterate the array from right to left and keep a max variable which will keep the value of the current max. When we find an item which is greater than max we update the max and add this element into our solution. The interviewer agreed for the approach. I discussed few corner scenarios with the interview"See full answer

Chen J. - "Leetcode 347: Heap + Hashtable Follow up question: create heap with the length of K instead of N (more time complexity but less space )"See full answer

Susmita S. - "Function that transforms each elements in a collection and returns new collection with transformed elements"See full answer

Gopal D. - "(Like a Rummy Game) There are 3 colors of tiles. Each tile has a number 1-9 on it. So the 27-tile set makes a deck. There are 4 decks. (Total = 108 tiles) Tile Colors = {Red, Black, Green} The tiles could be grouped together in patterns Types of patterns : The three tiles are identical (R2, R2, R2) The three tiles are of same color and sequential (R2, R3, R4). Sequence cannot be overlapping (R8, R9, R1 is not a pattern) Help : Tile Notations - R2 denotes Red tile having num 2 A player"See full answer

Mourya C. - "I try to solve this initially using quick select where will take a pivot element and position the remaining elements and check if the current index is answer or not and continue the same but it requires o(n*n), but interviewee is expecting the best from me, so at the end i tried solving using heaps where will check the difference between k and n-k to use min or max heap after that we will heap the array, and will keep popping the element k-1 and return the peek one which leads to answer."See full answer

Alex W. - "Memory allocation happens for storing a reference pointer as well as the default size of the generic object class depending on the language this is called in. Assuming this is in a JVM, this data is stored in metaspace, and memory allocation happens in heap."See full answer

Weida H. - "filter function usually exists in some high level programming that adopt FP paradigm. It taks a sequence of items and a predicate function, and returns (conceptually) a subset of the items that satisfy the predicate. Adopt this kind of operation (filter, map, reduce, take, pairwise ...) can help writting cleaner code, and reduce the usage of mutable part in the program, lower the possibility of making human mistake. Take Python for example (although const-ness is not exists in Python), assu"See full answer