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  • Anthropic logoAsked at Anthropic 
    Software Engineer
    Artificial Intelligence
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    "Referring to https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinesscouncil/2022/03/23/15-strategies-for-balancing-competing-stakeholder-priorities/?sh=7c82aa68262f Understand the conflicting priorities and align it with the goal/ objectives and the company mission. Start with the Least Common Denominator between the conflicting priorities to come to a commonality and start from there to objectively approach the next imp priority Always keep communication on and be transparent with 'equality' an"

    Pramod V. - "Referring to https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinesscouncil/2022/03/23/15-strategies-for-balancing-competing-stakeholder-priorities/?sh=7c82aa68262f Understand the conflicting priorities and align it with the goal/ objectives and the company mission. Start with the Least Common Denominator between the conflicting priorities to come to a commonality and start from there to objectively approach the next imp priority Always keep communication on and be transparent with 'equality' an"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Behavioral
    +5 more
  • Anthropic logoAsked at Anthropic 
    Video answer for 'Design a web crawler.'
    +7

    "I think, robots.txt file is provided by websites which web-crawler is crawling. Am I wrong somewhere or missing some context?"

    S V. - "I think, robots.txt file is provided by websites which web-crawler is crawling. Am I wrong somewhere or missing some context?"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    System Design
    +1 more
  • Apple logoAsked at Apple 

    "\# An program that prints out the peak elements in a list of integers. Pseudocode: 1. Define a function that takes a list of integers as input. 2. Initialize an empty list to store the peak elements. 3. Loop through the list of integers. 4. For each element, check if it is greater than its neighbors. 5. If it is, add it to the list of peak elements. 6. Return the list of peak elements. def findpeakelements(nums): if not nums: return [] peaks = [] n = len(nums"

    Frederick K. - "\# An program that prints out the peak elements in a list of integers. Pseudocode: 1. Define a function that takes a list of integers as input. 2. Initialize an empty list to store the peak elements. 3. Loop through the list of integers. 4. For each element, check if it is greater than its neighbors. 5. If it is, add it to the list of peak elements. 6. Return the list of peak elements. def findpeakelements(nums): if not nums: return [] peaks = [] n = len(nums"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Data Structures & Algorithms
    +1 more
  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 
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    "Situation - A time I dealt with conflict while on a team was while I was working at Shopify on physical and digital gift card refund point of sale solutions. The situation was that we were dealing with complex technical constraints including not changing particular UI components behavior to act as they should be intended. On the refund screen, the existing design was using a toggle on the same screen to bring up a modal for gift card selection to either select digital or physical options. Thi"

    Ben G. - "Situation - A time I dealt with conflict while on a team was while I was working at Shopify on physical and digital gift card refund point of sale solutions. The situation was that we were dealing with complex technical constraints including not changing particular UI components behavior to act as they should be intended. On the refund screen, the existing design was using a toggle on the same screen to bring up a modal for gift card selection to either select digital or physical options. Thi"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Behavioral
    +3 more
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  • Software Engineer
    Artificial Intelligence
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  • Uber logoAsked at Uber 

    " def closest_palindrome(n: str) -> str: """ Finds the closest palindromic number to n (excluding itself). Assumptions: If two palindromes are equally close, return the smaller one. n is a positive integer represented as a string. Time Complexity: O(1) Space Complexity: O(1) """ length = len(n) num = int(n) Helper to build palindrome from a prefix def makepalindrome(prefix: int, isodd_length: bool) -> int: s = str(prefi"

    Ramachandra N. - " def closest_palindrome(n: str) -> str: """ Finds the closest palindromic number to n (excluding itself). Assumptions: If two palindromes are equally close, return the smaller one. n is a positive integer represented as a string. Time Complexity: O(1) Space Complexity: O(1) """ length = len(n) num = int(n) Helper to build palindrome from a prefix def makepalindrome(prefix: int, isodd_length: bool) -> int: s = str(prefi"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Data Structures & Algorithms
    +1 more
  • OpenAI logoAsked at OpenAI 
    Video answer for 'Design ChatGPT'
    +1

    "The addition of an intermediate "sanitization" ML is something Neeraj used in the Uber Eats design and again seems kind of outside the scope here and redundant. This can simply be built into the AI response model to save a step. It's not clear what benefit this step provides, and he basically said we should have it "just because it would be good" and there's no concrete reasoning why to include it. Adding a Kafka queue to handle the thumbs-down ratings? For what purpose do you need a queue othe"

    Robert H. - "The addition of an intermediate "sanitization" ML is something Neeraj used in the Uber Eats design and again seems kind of outside the scope here and redundant. This can simply be built into the AI response model to save a step. It's not clear what benefit this step provides, and he basically said we should have it "just because it would be good" and there's no concrete reasoning why to include it. Adding a Kafka queue to handle the thumbs-down ratings? For what purpose do you need a queue othe"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    System Design
    +1 more
  • Oracle logoAsked at Oracle 

    " At low level: I would use two stacks: one for forward history and other for backward history. i go to tryexponent.com => this url will be stored in backward history stack. i go to google => again this url will be stored in backward history stack. i press back => data from backward history will be popped and put in to forward history stack. I press forward => data from forward history stack will be popped and put in to backward history tab. Also, whenever i go to any url,"

    Anubhav S. - " At low level: I would use two stacks: one for forward history and other for backward history. i go to tryexponent.com => this url will be stored in backward history stack. i go to google => again this url will be stored in backward history stack. i press back => data from backward history will be popped and put in to forward history stack. I press forward => data from forward history stack will be popped and put in to backward history tab. Also, whenever i go to any url,"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    System Design
    +1 more
  • Meta logoAsked at Meta 

    "class TreeNode(var val: Int, var left: TreeNode? = null, var right: TreeNode? = null) fun isAverageOfDescendants(root: TreeNode?): Boolean { fun helper(node: TreeNode?): Triple { if (node == null) return Triple(0, 0, true) val (leftSum, leftCount, leftValid) = helper(node.left) val (rightSum, rightCount, rightValid) = helper(node.right) val totalSum = leftSum + rightSum val totalCount = leftCount + rightCount // If leaf n"

    Gaurav B. - "class TreeNode(var val: Int, var left: TreeNode? = null, var right: TreeNode? = null) fun isAverageOfDescendants(root: TreeNode?): Boolean { fun helper(node: TreeNode?): Triple { if (node == null) return Triple(0, 0, true) val (leftSum, leftCount, leftValid) = helper(node.left) val (rightSum, rightCount, rightValid) = helper(node.right) val totalSum = leftSum + rightSum val totalCount = leftCount + rightCount // If leaf n"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Data Structures & Algorithms
    +1 more
  • "i responded using a multi sourced BFS and in place marking, then i checked the final grid to see if any free spots were left unmarked."

    Sh R. - "i responded using a multi sourced BFS and in place marking, then i checked the final grid to see if any free spots were left unmarked."See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Data Structures & Algorithms
    +1 more
  • xAI logoAsked at xAI 

    "Which location you were interviewed? Can you please share some details?"

    K S. - "Which location you were interviewed? Can you please share some details?"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    System Design
  • 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
  • Video answer for 'Design Weather App'
    Software Engineer
    System Design
    +2 more
  • Microsoft logoAsked at Microsoft 

    "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
    Data Structures & Algorithms
    +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
    Data Structures & Algorithms
    +4 more
  • "S – Situation: In a university project, my team was building a collaborative code editor. As part of the functionality, we needed a login system so users could securely access their sessions and collaborate in real time. T – Task: I was responsible for implementing the authentication system. Initially, I planned to build the entire login system from scratch, including user management, password storage, and session handling. But as the deadline approached, I realized that implementing thi"

    Hamzeh H. - "S – Situation: In a university project, my team was building a collaborative code editor. As part of the functionality, we needed a login system so users could securely access their sessions and collaborate in real time. T – Task: I was responsible for implementing the authentication system. Initially, I planned to build the entire login system from scratch, including user management, password storage, and session handling. But as the deadline approached, I realized that implementing thi"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Behavioral
  • Software Engineer
    Behavioral
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