Coding Interview Questions

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  • +15

    "SELECT SUM(orderquantity) AS totalunitsorderedyesterday FROM orders WHERE order_date = DATE('now', '-1 DAY') `"

    Akshay D. - "SELECT SUM(orderquantity) AS totalunitsorderedyesterday FROM orders WHERE order_date = DATE('now', '-1 DAY') `"See full answer

    Coding
    SQL
  • +13

    "--country names are UPPERCASE but the table in the in the question showing lowercase. That's why it took me a while to figure it out until I ran the country column WITH RECURSIVE Hierarchy AS ( SELECT e.Emp_ID, CONCAT(e.FirstName, ' ', e.MiddleName, ' ', e.LastName) AS FullName, e.Manager_ID, 0 AS Level, CASE WHEN e.Country = 'IRELAND' THEN s.Salary * 1.09 WHEN e.Country = 'INDIA' THEN s.Salary * 0.012 ELSE s.Salary "

    Victor N. - "--country names are UPPERCASE but the table in the in the question showing lowercase. That's why it took me a while to figure it out until I ran the country column WITH RECURSIVE Hierarchy AS ( SELECT e.Emp_ID, CONCAT(e.FirstName, ' ', e.MiddleName, ' ', e.LastName) AS FullName, e.Manager_ID, 0 AS Level, CASE WHEN e.Country = 'IRELAND' THEN s.Salary * 1.09 WHEN e.Country = 'INDIA' THEN s.Salary * 0.012 ELSE s.Salary "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
    +1 more
  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 
    +22

    "import java.util.*; public class MostCommonWords { public static String mostCommonWords(String text) { String removeNonAlphabets = "[.,;!\"'\\(\\)]"; String sanitizedText = text.replaceAll(removeNonAlphabets," ").toLowerCase(); String[] wordsArray = sanitizedText.split("\\s+"); Map hm = new HashMap(); for (String word: wordsArray){ if (!word.isEmpty()){ hm.put(word, hm.getOrDefault(word,0)+1); } } List> entries = new ArrayList(hm.entrySet()); en"

    Sailaja R. - "import java.util.*; public class MostCommonWords { public static String mostCommonWords(String text) { String removeNonAlphabets = "[.,;!\"'\\(\\)]"; String sanitizedText = text.replaceAll(removeNonAlphabets," ").toLowerCase(); String[] wordsArray = sanitizedText.split("\\s+"); Map hm = new HashMap(); for (String word: wordsArray){ if (!word.isEmpty()){ hm.put(word, hm.getOrDefault(word,0)+1); } } List> entries = new ArrayList(hm.entrySet()); en"See full answer

    Security Engineer
    Coding
    +1 more
  • Microsoft logoAsked at Microsoft 

    "Let me try to explain it with simple life analogy You're cooking dinner in the kitchen. Multithreading is when you've got a bunch of friends helping out. Each friend does a different job—like one chops veggies while another stirs a sauce. Everyone focuses on their task, and together, you all make the meal faster. In a computer, it's like different jobs happening all at once, making stuff happen quicker, just like having lots of friends helping makes dinner ready faster."

    Praveen D. - "Let me try to explain it with simple life analogy You're cooking dinner in the kitchen. Multithreading is when you've got a bunch of friends helping out. Each friend does a different job—like one chops veggies while another stirs a sauce. Everyone focuses on their task, and together, you all make the meal faster. In a computer, it's like different jobs happening all at once, making stuff happen quicker, just like having lots of friends helping makes dinner ready faster."See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Coding
    +1 more
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  • +24

    "select name, stock from products p left join transactions t on p.id = t.product_id order by date desc limit 1"

    Daniel C. - "select name, stock from products p left join transactions t on p.id = t.product_id order by date desc limit 1"See full answer

    Data Engineer
    Coding
    +3 more
  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 

    "It was like say we have a library A which has a library B as a dependency and so on, how would we determine in the dependency chain that whether there is a circular depedency?"

    Chris R. - "It was like say we have a library A which has a library B as a dependency and so on, how would we determine in the dependency chain that whether there is a circular depedency?"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Coding
    +1 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
  • Microsoft logoAsked at Microsoft 
    +1

    "First find the node that we need to delete. After it's found, think about ways to keep the tree BST after deleting the node. a. If there's no left or right subtree, we found the leaf. Delete this node without any further traversing. b. If it's not a leaf node, what node we can use from the subtree that can replace the delete node and still maintain the BST property? We can either replace the delete node with the minimum from the right subtree (if right exists) or we can replace the delete"

    An D. - "First find the node that we need to delete. After it's found, think about ways to keep the tree BST after deleting the node. a. If there's no left or right subtree, we found the leaf. Delete this node without any further traversing. b. If it's not a leaf node, what node we can use from the subtree that can replace the delete node and still maintain the BST property? We can either replace the delete node with the minimum from the right subtree (if right exists) or we can replace the delete"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Coding
  • +16

    "The user table no longer exists as expected - I get an error that user does not contain user_id. Note that querying the table results in only user:swuoevkivrjfta select * FROM user `"

    Evan R. - "The user table no longer exists as expected - I get an error that user does not contain user_id. Note that querying the table results in only user:swuoevkivrjfta select * FROM user `"See full answer

    Data Engineer
    Coding
    +3 more
  • Software Engineer
    Coding
    +1 more
  • Solutions Architect
    Coding
  • Adobe logoAsked at Adobe 
    Video answer for 'Product of Array Except Self'
    +52

    "If 0's aren't a concern, couldn't we just multiply all numbers. and then divide product by each number in the list ? if there's more than one zero, then we just return an array of 0s if there's one zero, then we just replace 0 with product and rest 0s. what am i missing?"

    Sachin R. - "If 0's aren't a concern, couldn't we just multiply all numbers. and then divide product by each number in the list ? if there's more than one zero, then we just return an array of 0s if there's one zero, then we just replace 0 with product and rest 0s. what am i missing?"See full answer

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

    "You can ask some clarifying questions like 1) Ask if the list is already sorted or not 2) is zero included in the list ? 3) Natural numbers are usually positive numbers ( clarify they are non negatives) Solution : 1) If sorted use two pointers and sort them in O(N) 2) if not sorted , -ve / only +ve numbers in the list doesn't matter - the easiest solution is Use a priority queue and push the number and its square in each iteration Finally return the list returned by the priority Queue. N"

    Bless M. - "You can ask some clarifying questions like 1) Ask if the list is already sorted or not 2) is zero included in the list ? 3) Natural numbers are usually positive numbers ( clarify they are non negatives) Solution : 1) If sorted use two pointers and sort them in O(N) 2) if not sorted , -ve / only +ve numbers in the list doesn't matter - the easiest solution is Use a priority queue and push the number and its square in each iteration Finally return the list returned by the priority Queue. N"See full answer

    Machine Learning Engineer
    Coding
    +1 more
  • "Abstract class A class that can have Abstract methods - without implementations and Concerete Methods i.e with implementation. Can have private, protected and public access modifiers. Supports Single inheritance i.e a class can extend only 1 abstract class Can have constructors Mainly used when sharing common behaviors Interface Class A collection of abstract methods ( can have static and default methods also - onwards of java 8) Public, static, final are the access"

    Sue G. - "Abstract class A class that can have Abstract methods - without implementations and Concerete Methods i.e with implementation. Can have private, protected and public access modifiers. Supports Single inheritance i.e a class can extend only 1 abstract class Can have constructors Mainly used when sharing common behaviors Interface Class A collection of abstract methods ( can have static and default methods also - onwards of java 8) Public, static, final are the access"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Coding
    +2 more
  • +13

    "public static int maxProfitGreedy(int[] stockPrices) { int maxProfit = 0; for(int i = 1; i todayPrice) { maxProfit += tomorrowPrice - todayPrice; } } return maxProfit; } "

    Laksitha R. - "public static int maxProfitGreedy(int[] stockPrices) { int maxProfit = 0; for(int i = 1; i todayPrice) { maxProfit += tomorrowPrice - todayPrice; } } return maxProfit; } "See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Coding
    +4 more
  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 
    Video answer for 'Implement k-means clustering.'

    "i dont know"

    Dinesh K. - "i dont know"See full answer

    Machine Learning Engineer
    Coding
    +5 more
  • Coinbase logoAsked at Coinbase 
    Frontend Engineer
    Coding
  • Google logoAsked at Google 
    +2

    "WITH RECURSIVE fibonacci_series AS ( SELECT 1 AS n, 0 AS fib1, 1 AS fib2 UNION ALL SELECT n + 1 AS n, fib2 AS fib1, fib1 + fib2 AS fib2 FROM fibonacci_series WHERE n < 20 -- Limit the series to 20 numbers ) SELECT n, fib1 AS fib FROM fibonacci_series ORDER BY n; `"

    Yashasvi V. - "WITH RECURSIVE fibonacci_series AS ( SELECT 1 AS n, 0 AS fib1, 1 AS fib2 UNION ALL SELECT n + 1 AS n, fib2 AS fib1, fib1 + fib2 AS fib2 FROM fibonacci_series WHERE n < 20 -- Limit the series to 20 numbers ) SELECT n, fib1 AS fib FROM fibonacci_series ORDER BY n; `"See full answer

    Data Analyst
    Coding
    +4 more
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