Software Engineer Interview Questions

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

Anonymous Emu - "let str = 'this is a test of programs'; let obj={}; for (let s of str ) obj[s]?(obj[s]=obj[s]+1):(obj[s]=1) console.log(JSON.stringify(obj))"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

Kwaku K. - "Use a min-heap or sort the array, either method works"See full answer

Yitayal B. - "import re def naturalsortkey(s): Split the string into a list of text and numbers "item10" -> ["item", 10] return [int(text) if text.isdigit() else text.lower() for text in re.split(r'(\d+)', s)] def natural_sort(arr): return sorted(arr, key=naturalsortkey) \# Example Usage data = ["item10", "item2", "item1", "item20", "2nd item", "1st item"] sorteddata = naturalsort(data) print(f"Standard Sort: {sorted(data)}") print(f"Natural Sort: {sorted_data}") "See full answer

Rudransh V. - "I got it right"See full answer

Kamlesh S. - "min-num = arr[0] max-num = arr[0] for (i=1; i max-num) { max-num = arr[i]; } } System.out.println("Minimum = " + min-num); System.out.println("Maximum = " + max-num);"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

Alessandro R. - "import java.util.*; public class NetworkTopology { public int topologytype(int N, int M, int[] input3, int[] input4) { if (M != N - 1 && M != N) return -1; // Fast check for invalid cases int[] degree = new int[N + 1]; // Degree of each node (1-based indexing) // Build the degree array for (int i = 0; i < M; i++) { degree[input3[i]]++; degree[input4[i]]++; } // Check for Bus Topology boolean isBus = (M"See full answer