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  • +11

    "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

    Software Engineer
    Coding
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  • Apple logoAsked at Apple 
    +25

    "we can use two pointer + set like maintain i,j and also insert jth character to set like while set size is equal to our window j-i+1 then maximize our answer and increase jth pointer till last index"

    Kishor J. - "we can use two pointer + set like maintain i,j and also insert jth character to set like while set size is equal to our window j-i+1 then maximize our answer and increase jth pointer till last index"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Coding
    +4 more
  • +41

    "Here's a simpler solution: select u.username , count(p.postid) as countposts from posts as p join users as u on p.userid = u.userid where p.likes >= 100 group by 1 order by 2 desc, 1 asc limit 3 `"

    Bradley E. - "Here's a simpler solution: select u.username , count(p.postid) as countposts from posts as p join users as u on p.userid = u.userid where p.likes >= 100 group by 1 order by 2 desc, 1 asc limit 3 `"See full answer

    Data Engineer
    Coding
    +3 more
  • +47

    "#include #include #include using namespace std; vector diff(const vector& A, const vector& B) { unordered_set elements; vector result; for (const auto& element : A) { elements.insert(element); } for (const auto& element : B) { if (elements.find(element) == elements.end()) { result.push_back(element); } else { elements.erase(element); } } for"

    Chinmay S. - "#include #include #include using namespace std; vector diff(const vector& A, const vector& B) { unordered_set elements; vector result; for (const auto& element : A) { elements.insert(element); } for (const auto& element : B) { if (elements.find(element) == elements.end()) { result.push_back(element); } else { elements.erase(element); } } for"See full answer

    Coding
    Data Structures & Algorithms
  • "def findfreetime(schedules): Step 1: Flatten the list of schedules into a single list of intervals all_intervals = [interval for schedule in schedules for interval in schedule] Handle edge case of an empty schedule if not all_intervals: return [] Step 2: Sort all intervals by their start time all_intervals.sort(key=lambda x: x[0]) Step 3: Merge overlapping intervals mergedbusy = [allintervals[0]] for currentstart, currentend in"

    Himanshu P. - "def findfreetime(schedules): Step 1: Flatten the list of schedules into a single list of intervals all_intervals = [interval for schedule in schedules for interval in schedule] Handle edge case of an empty schedule if not all_intervals: return [] Step 2: Sort all intervals by their start time all_intervals.sort(key=lambda x: x[0]) Step 3: Merge overlapping intervals mergedbusy = [allintervals[0]] for currentstart, currentend in"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Coding
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  • +58

    "Limit and rank() only works if there are no 2 employees with same salary ( which is okay for this use case) For the query to pass all the test results, we need to use dense_rank with ranked_employees as ( select id, firstname, lastname, salary, denserank() over(order by salary desc) as salaryrank from employees ) select id, firstname, lastname, salary from ranked_employees where salary_rank <= 3 `"

    Vysali K. - "Limit and rank() only works if there are no 2 employees with same salary ( which is okay for this use case) For the query to pass all the test results, we need to use dense_rank with ranked_employees as ( select id, firstname, lastname, salary, denserank() over(order by salary desc) as salaryrank from employees ) select id, firstname, lastname, salary from ranked_employees where salary_rank <= 3 `"See full answer

    Data Engineer
    Coding
    +3 more
  • Google logoAsked at Google 

    "These are a set of utilities used to manage the heap memory as part of an application. The C standard library implements these functions. malloc(bytes) takes a number of bytes and returns a pointer to the start of the allocated buffer. If the allocation failed, a null pointer is returned instead. calloc(count, size) behaves like malloc(count * size), but also zero-initializes the allocated buffer, assuming the allocation succeeded. realloc(ptr, size) takes a pointer to a previously al"

    J R. - "These are a set of utilities used to manage the heap memory as part of an application. The C standard library implements these functions. malloc(bytes) takes a number of bytes and returns a pointer to the start of the allocated buffer. If the allocation failed, a null pointer is returned instead. calloc(count, size) behaves like malloc(count * size), but also zero-initializes the allocated buffer, assuming the allocation succeeded. realloc(ptr, size) takes a pointer to a previously al"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Coding
    +1 more
  • +3

    "select employeename, employeeid, salary, department, DR from ( select employeename, employeeid, salary, dense_rank() over (partition by department order by salary desc) DR, department from employee ) where DR <=3 order by department, DR"

    Sreeram reddy B. - "select employeename, employeeid, salary, department, DR from ( select employeename, employeeid, salary, dense_rank() over (partition by department order by salary desc) DR, department from employee ) where DR <=3 order by department, DR"See full answer

    Data Engineer
    Coding
    +1 more
  • "Sorted the array and stored the minimum difference in a variable and then traversed the array for the pairs having minimum difference"

    Aashka C. - "Sorted the array and stored the minimum difference in a variable and then traversed the array for the pairs having minimum difference"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Coding
    +1 more
  • +1

    "WITH ActiveUsersYesterday AS ( SELECT DISTINCT user_id FROM user_activity WHERE activity_date = CAST(GETDATE() - 1 AS DATE) ), VideoCallUsersYesterday AS ( SELECT DISTINCT user_id FROM video_calls WHERE call_date = CAST(GETDATE() - 1 AS DATE) ) SELECT (CAST(COUNT(DISTINCT v.userid) AS FLOAT) / NULLIF(COUNT(DISTINCT a.userid), 0)) * 100 AS percentagevideocall_users FROM ActiveUsersYesterday a LEFT JOIN VideoCallUsersYesterday v ON a.userid = v.userid;"

    Bala G. - "WITH ActiveUsersYesterday AS ( SELECT DISTINCT user_id FROM user_activity WHERE activity_date = CAST(GETDATE() - 1 AS DATE) ), VideoCallUsersYesterday AS ( SELECT DISTINCT user_id FROM video_calls WHERE call_date = CAST(GETDATE() - 1 AS DATE) ) SELECT (CAST(COUNT(DISTINCT v.userid) AS FLOAT) / NULLIF(COUNT(DISTINCT a.userid), 0)) * 100 AS percentagevideocall_users FROM ActiveUsersYesterday a LEFT JOIN VideoCallUsersYesterday v ON a.userid = v.userid;"See full answer

    Data Scientist
    Coding
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  • Databricks logoAsked at Databricks 

    "Constraints: 4-direction moves; no mode switching (pick exactly one of {1=bicycle, 2=bike, 3=car, 4=bus} for the full trip). Per-mode search: If a mode’s per-step time/cost are uniform, run BFS on allowed cells. Then totaltime = steps × timeperstep, tie-break by steps × costper_step. If time/cost vary by cell (given matrices), run Dijkstra per mode minimizing (totaltime, totalcost) lexicographically. Maintain the best ⟨time, cost⟩ per cell; relax when the new pair is strictly better. S"

    Rahul J. - "Constraints: 4-direction moves; no mode switching (pick exactly one of {1=bicycle, 2=bike, 3=car, 4=bus} for the full trip). Per-mode search: If a mode’s per-step time/cost are uniform, run BFS on allowed cells. Then totaltime = steps × timeperstep, tie-break by steps × costper_step. If time/cost vary by cell (given matrices), run Dijkstra per mode minimizing (totaltime, totalcost) lexicographically. Maintain the best ⟨time, cost⟩ per cell; relax when the new pair is strictly better. S"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Coding
    +1 more
  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 
    +3

    "Inorder traversal of the tree should be the solution for this problem."

    Balasubramanian R. - "Inorder traversal of the tree should be the solution for this problem."See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Coding
    +1 more
  • "SELECT s.Sale_Date, SUM(si.Quantity * si.SalePrice) AS TotalRevenue FROM Sales s JOIN SaleItems si ON s.SaleID = si.Sale_ID GROUP BY s.Sale_Date ORDER BY s.Sale_Date; "

    Bala G. - "SELECT s.Sale_Date, SUM(si.Quantity * si.SalePrice) AS TotalRevenue FROM Sales s JOIN SaleItems si ON s.SaleID = si.Sale_ID GROUP BY s.Sale_Date ORDER BY s.Sale_Date; "See full answer

    Data Engineer
    Coding
    +1 more
  • "Function signature for reference: def calculate(servers: List[int], k: int) -> int: ... To resolve this, you can use binary search considering left=0 and right=max(servers) * k so Example: servers=[1,4,5] First server handle 1 request in let's say 1 second, second 4 seconds and last 5 seconds. k=10 So I want to know the minimal time to process 10 requests Get the mid for timeline mid = (left+right)//2 -> mid is 25 Check how many we could process 25//1 = 25 25//4=6 25//5=5 so 25 + 6 +"

    Babaa - "Function signature for reference: def calculate(servers: List[int], k: int) -> int: ... To resolve this, you can use binary search considering left=0 and right=max(servers) * k so Example: servers=[1,4,5] First server handle 1 request in let's say 1 second, second 4 seconds and last 5 seconds. k=10 So I want to know the minimal time to process 10 requests Get the mid for timeline mid = (left+right)//2 -> mid is 25 Check how many we could process 25//1 = 25 25//4=6 25//5=5 so 25 + 6 +"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Coding
  • Adobe logoAsked at Adobe 

    "Use a representative of each, e.g. sort the string and add it to the value of a hashmap> where we put all the words that belong to the same anagram together."

    Gaston B. - "Use a representative of each, e.g. sort the string and add it to the value of a hashmap> where we put all the words that belong to the same anagram together."See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Coding
    +4 more
  • "Batch Packing Problem In Amazon’s massive warehouse inventory, there are different types of products. You are given an array products of size n, where products[i] represents the number of items of product type i. These products need to be packed into batches for shipping. The batch packing must adhere to the following conditions: No two items in the same batch can be of the same product type. The number of items packed in the current batch must be strictly greater than the number pack"

    Anonymous Goat - "Batch Packing Problem In Amazon’s massive warehouse inventory, there are different types of products. You are given an array products of size n, where products[i] represents the number of items of product type i. These products need to be packed into batches for shipping. The batch packing must adhere to the following conditions: No two items in the same batch can be of the same product type. The number of items packed in the current batch must be strictly greater than the number pack"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Coding
    +1 more
  • Adobe logoAsked at Adobe 
    +26

    "def reverseString(s): chars = list(s) l, r = 0, len(s) - 1 while l < r: chars[l], chars[r] = chars[r], chars[l] l += 1 r -= 1 reversed_str = "".join(chars) return reversed_str `"

    Erjan G. - "def reverseString(s): chars = list(s) l, r = 0, len(s) - 1 while l < r: chars[l], chars[r] = chars[r], chars[l] l += 1 r -= 1 reversed_str = "".join(chars) return reversed_str `"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Coding
    +4 more
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