Coding Interview Questions

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  • +10

    "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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  • +2

    "class Solution { public boolean isValid(String s) { // Time Complexity and Space complexity will be O(n) Stack stack=new Stack(); for(char c:s.toCharArray()){ if(c=='('){ stack.push(')'); } else if(c=='{'){ stack.push('}'); } else if(c=='['){ stack.push(']'); } else if(stack.pop()!=c){ return false; } } return stack.isEmpty(); } }"

    Kanishvaran P. - "class Solution { public boolean isValid(String s) { // Time Complexity and Space complexity will be O(n) Stack stack=new Stack(); for(char c:s.toCharArray()){ if(c=='('){ stack.push(')'); } else if(c=='{'){ stack.push('}'); } else if(c=='['){ stack.push(']'); } else if(stack.pop()!=c){ return false; } } return stack.isEmpty(); } }"See full answer

    Machine Learning Engineer
    Coding
    +2 more
  • "How do you find consecutive days for login (MySQL, SQL, date, subquery, MySQL 5.7, development)? 1 Follow Request Answer More All related (34) Recommended 📷 Trausti Thor Johannsson · Follow Been using MySQL for more than 16 yearsDec 27 There are functions like DATEDIFF but there are also BETWE"

    Hayatu H. - "How do you find consecutive days for login (MySQL, SQL, date, subquery, MySQL 5.7, development)? 1 Follow Request Answer More All related (34) Recommended 📷 Trausti Thor Johannsson · Follow Been using MySQL for more than 16 yearsDec 27 There are functions like DATEDIFF but there are also BETWE"See full answer

    Data Engineer
    Coding
    +1 more
  • 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
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  • Apple logoAsked at Apple 
    +16

    "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
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  • +2

    "Implemented a recursive function which returns the length of the list so far. when the returned value equals k + 1 , assign current.next = current.next.next. If I made it back to the head return root.next as the new head of the linked list."

    דניאל ר. - "Implemented a recursive function which returns the length of the list so far. when the returned value equals k + 1 , assign current.next = current.next.next. If I made it back to the head return root.next as the new head of the linked list."See full answer

    Machine Learning Engineer
    Coding
    +2 more
  • Google logoAsked at Google 

    "Question: An array of n integers is given, and a positive integer k, where k << n. k indicates that the absolute difference between each element's current index (icurrent) and the index in the sorted array (isorted) is less than k (|icurr - isorted| < k). Sort the given array. The most common solution is with a Heap: def solution(arr, k): min_heap = [] result = [] for i in range(len(arr)) heapq.heappush(min_heap, arr[i]) "

    Guilherme M. - "Question: An array of n integers is given, and a positive integer k, where k << n. k indicates that the absolute difference between each element's current index (icurrent) and the index in the sorted array (isorted) is less than k (|icurr - isorted| < k). Sort the given array. The most common solution is with a Heap: def solution(arr, k): min_heap = [] result = [] for i in range(len(arr)) heapq.heappush(min_heap, arr[i]) "See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Coding
    +1 more
  • "find total sum. assign that to rightsum traverse from left to right: keep updating left sum and right sum, when they match return the index. else if you reach end return -1 or not found"

    Rahul J. - "find total sum. assign that to rightsum traverse from left to right: keep updating left sum and right sum, when they match return the index. else if you reach end return -1 or not found"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Coding
    +1 more
  • Atlassian logoAsked at Atlassian 
    Video answer for 'How would you store a list of numbers as a single number?'
    +7

    "First thing the interviewee did wrong is not asking clarifying questions. This is the most vague problem I have every heard, and the interviewee just made assumptions and started programming."

    Nicholas S. - "First thing the interviewee did wrong is not asking clarifying questions. This is the most vague problem I have every heard, and the interviewee just made assumptions and started programming."See full answer

    Engineering Manager
    Coding
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  • +25

    "SELECT d.name as departmentname,e.id as employeeid,e.firstname,e.lastname,MAX(e.salary) as salary FROM employees e LEFT JOIN departments d ON e.department_id=d.id GROUP BY department_name ORDER BY department_name;"

    Anisha S. - "SELECT d.name as departmentname,e.id as employeeid,e.firstname,e.lastname,MAX(e.salary) as salary FROM employees e LEFT JOIN departments d ON e.department_id=d.id GROUP BY department_name ORDER BY department_name;"See full answer

    Data Engineer
    Coding
    +3 more
  • "Use Dutch National Flag Algorithm to solve the problem"

    Sireesha R. - "Use Dutch National Flag Algorithm to solve the problem"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Coding
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  • Microsoft logoAsked at Microsoft 
    +1

    "#simple solution 1.firstly find the node in the bst (O(logn) time complexity it take) 2.now removing the node consists of 3 cases: 1.if the node is leaf (no children): (keep track of parent and do) parent.left or parent.right=NULL simply remove the node () 2.if(has one child) replace the node with its child 3.if has both childs we replace the node with either inorder predesor(max of left tree)or inorder succesor and remove the node wh"

    Sambangi C. - "#simple solution 1.firstly find the node in the bst (O(logn) time complexity it take) 2.now removing the node consists of 3 cases: 1.if the node is leaf (no children): (keep track of parent and do) parent.left or parent.right=NULL simply remove the node () 2.if(has one child) replace the node with its child 3.if has both childs we replace the node with either inorder predesor(max of left tree)or inorder succesor and remove the node wh"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Coding
  • Adobe logoAsked at Adobe 
    Video answer for 'Explain how to find a target sum in an array.'
    +4

    "a top-down recursive solution with memoization in python: from typing import List from functools import cache def changeSigns(nums: List[int], S: int) -> int: @cache def dp(i, curr_sum): if i == len(nums): if curr_sum == S: return 1 return 0 return dp(i+1, currsum + nums[i]) + dp(i+1, currsum - nums[i]) answer = dp(0, 0) if answer == 0: return -1 return answer `"

    Jessica R. - "a top-down recursive solution with memoization in python: from typing import List from functools import cache def changeSigns(nums: List[int], S: int) -> int: @cache def dp(i, curr_sum): if i == len(nums): if curr_sum == S: return 1 return 0 return dp(i+1, currsum + nums[i]) + dp(i+1, currsum - nums[i]) answer = dp(0, 0) if answer == 0: return -1 return answer `"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Coding
    +1 more
  • Adobe logoAsked at Adobe 
    +22

    "Idea for solution: Reverse the complete char array Reverse the words separated by space. i.e. Find the space characters and the reverse the subarray between two space characters. vector reverseSubarray(vector& arr, int s, int e) { while (s reverseWords(vector& arr ) { int n = arr.size(); reverse(arr, 0, n - 1"

    Rahul M. - "Idea for solution: Reverse the complete char array Reverse the words separated by space. i.e. Find the space characters and the reverse the subarray between two space characters. vector reverseSubarray(vector& arr, int s, int e) { while (s reverseWords(vector& arr ) { int n = arr.size(); reverse(arr, 0, n - 1"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Coding
    +4 more
  • Meta (Facebook) logoAsked at Meta (Facebook) 
    Video answer for 'Merge Intervals'
    +37

    "const mergeIntervals = (intervals) => { const compare = (a, b) => { if(a[0] b[0]) return 1 else if(a[0] === b[0]) { return a[1] - b[1] } } let current = [] const result = [] const sorted = intervals.sort(compare) for(let i = 0; i = b[0]) current[1] = b[1] els"

    Kofi N. - "const mergeIntervals = (intervals) => { const compare = (a, b) => { if(a[0] b[0]) return 1 else if(a[0] === b[0]) { return a[1] - b[1] } } let current = [] const result = [] const sorted = intervals.sort(compare) for(let i = 0; i = b[0]) current[1] = b[1] els"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Coding
    +6 more
  • +2

    "Traverse the array of points while computing the distance and pushing it to the heap. Then traverse again the heap and pop the k closest. Time O(nlogn) Space O(n)"

    Dadja Z. - "Traverse the array of points while computing the distance and pushing it to the heap. Then traverse again the heap and pop the k closest. Time O(nlogn) Space O(n)"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Coding
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  • "Started by asking clarification questions regarding design constraints and desired features. Break down the into re-usable components - HeroImg and Carousel (with 3 images rendered) Code the components and managed the state for both in the parent component."

    Akshay J. - "Started by asking clarification questions regarding design constraints and desired features. Break down the into re-usable components - HeroImg and Carousel (with 3 images rendered) Code the components and managed the state for both in the parent component."See full answer

    Frontend Engineer
    Coding
  • +17

    "SELECT u.user_id, u.user_name, u.email, ROUND(AVG(CASE WHEN b.status = 'Unmatched' THEN 1.0 ELSE 0 END), 2) AS avgunmatchedbookings FROM users u LEFT JOIN bookings b ON u.userid = b.userid GROUP BY u.user_id, u.user_name, u.email; `"

    Akshay D. - "SELECT u.user_id, u.user_name, u.email, ROUND(AVG(CASE WHEN b.status = 'Unmatched' THEN 1.0 ELSE 0 END), 2) AS avgunmatchedbookings FROM users u LEFT JOIN bookings b ON u.userid = b.userid GROUP BY u.user_id, u.user_name, u.email; `"See full answer

    Data Engineer
    Coding
    +3 more
  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 

    "class Node: def init(self, value): self.value = value self.children = [] def inorder_traversal(root): if not root: return [] result = [] n = len(root.children) for i in range(n): result.extend(inorder_traversal(root.children[i])) if i == n // 2: result.append(root.value) if n == 0: result.append(root.value) return result Example usage: root = Node(1) child1 = Node(2) chil"

    Teddy Y. - "class Node: def init(self, value): self.value = value self.children = [] def inorder_traversal(root): if not root: return [] result = [] n = len(root.children) for i in range(n): result.extend(inorder_traversal(root.children[i])) if i == n // 2: result.append(root.value) if n == 0: result.append(root.value) return result Example usage: root = Node(1) child1 = Node(2) chil"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Coding
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