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Asked at Google • 2 months ago
Given two strings and two allowed operations, swapping positions of letters and converting all occurrences of one character to another, can the first string be transformed into the second?
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Data Structures & Algorithms
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Asked at Google • 2 months ago
What do you know about algorithms?
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Data Structures & Algorithms
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Data Structures & Algorithms
Asked at LinkedIn • 2 months ago
We have a platform product used by 5,000 teams, and we're moving to a new platform that isn't backward compatible. How would you get those teams to migrate?
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Asked at Microsoft • 2 months ago
Given a binary tree, find the shortest path from the root to a leaf.
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Data Structures & Algorithms
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Asked at Microsoft • 2 months ago
Implement a method to convert an integer to a string of bytes without using built-in helper functions.
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Coding
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Asked at Google • 2 months ago
How do you retain a learning mindset? What do you do to ensure you're constantly learning and growing as an engineer?
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Asked at Google • 2 months ago
Given a train schedule with departure city, arrival city, start time, end time, and duration, and given a source and destination, find the sequence of trains that gets you there at the earliest pos...
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Asked at Datadog • 3 months ago
Why do you want to work at Datadog?
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Behavioral
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Behavioral
Asked at Uber • 2 months ago
For an org, give me an example of when you improved velocity.
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