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  • 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
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  • "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
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  • "int reverse(int x) { int rev = 0; bool isNegative = false; if(x 0){ int r = x % 10; rev = rev * 10 + r; x = x / 10; } if(isNegative){ return -rev; } return rev; } `"

    Nilay B. - "int reverse(int x) { int rev = 0; bool isNegative = false; if(x 0){ int r = x % 10; rev = rev * 10 + r; x = x / 10; } if(isNegative){ return -rev; } return rev; } `"See full answer

    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
  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 
    Video answer for 'Implement a k-nearest neighbors algorithm.'
    +10

    "Even more faster and vectorized version, using np.linalg.norm - to avoid loop and np.argpartition to select lowest k. We dont need to sort whole array - we need to be sure that first k elements are lower than the rest. import numpy as np def knn(Xtrain, ytrain, X_new, k): distances = np.linalg.norm(Xtrain - Xnew, axis=1) k_indices = np.argpartition(distances, k)[:k] # O(N) selection instead of O(N log N) sort return int(np.sum(ytrain[kindices]) > k / 2.0) `"

    Dinar M. - "Even more faster and vectorized version, using np.linalg.norm - to avoid loop and np.argpartition to select lowest k. We dont need to sort whole array - we need to be sure that first k elements are lower than the rest. import numpy as np def knn(Xtrain, ytrain, X_new, k): distances = np.linalg.norm(Xtrain - Xnew, axis=1) k_indices = np.argpartition(distances, k)[:k] # O(N) selection instead of O(N log N) sort return int(np.sum(ytrain[kindices]) > k / 2.0) `"See full answer

    Machine Learning Engineer
    Coding
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  • "C++ : vector justifywords(const vector& wordslist, int width) { vector result; string curr_line = ""; for (const string& word : words_list) { if (currline.length() + word.length() + (currline.empty() ? 0 : 1) > width) { result.pushback(currline); curr_line = ""; // Reset current line } if (!curr_line.empty()) { curr_line += " "; } curr_line += word; } if"

    Anonymous Basilisk - "C++ : vector justifywords(const vector& wordslist, int width) { vector result; string curr_line = ""; for (const string& word : words_list) { if (currline.length() + word.length() + (currline.empty() ? 0 : 1) > width) { result.pushback(currline); curr_line = ""; // Reset current line } if (!curr_line.empty()) { curr_line += " "; } curr_line += word; } if"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Coding
  • 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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  • +23

    "with cte as (select ts.employee_id, e.name, t.id as test_id, max(distinct ts.score) as total from test_results as ts join tests as t on ts.test_id = t.id join employees as e on ts.employee_id = e.id group by ts.employee_id, e.name, t.id) select employee_id, name as employee_name, sum(total) as total_score from cte group by employee_id, employee_name order by total_score desc, employee_id asc ;"

    Christian B. - "with cte as (select ts.employee_id, e.name, t.id as test_id, max(distinct ts.score) as total from test_results as ts join tests as t on ts.test_id = t.id join employees as e on ts.employee_id = e.id group by ts.employee_id, e.name, t.id) select employee_id, name as employee_name, sum(total) as total_score from cte group by employee_id, employee_name order by total_score desc, employee_id asc ;"See full answer

    Data Engineer
    Coding
    +3 more
  • Adobe logoAsked at Adobe 
    +48

    "#include // Naive method to find a pair in an array with a given sum void findPair(int nums[], int n, int target) { // consider each element except the last for (int i = 0; i < n - 1; i++) { // start from the i'th element until the last element for (int j = i + 1; j < n; j++) { // if the desired sum is found, print it if (nums[i] + nums[j] == target) { printf("Pair found (%d, %d)\n", nums[i], nums[j]); return; } } } // we reach here if the pair is not found printf("Pair not found"); } "

    Gundala tarun,cse2020 V. - "#include // Naive method to find a pair in an array with a given sum void findPair(int nums[], int n, int target) { // consider each element except the last for (int i = 0; i < n - 1; i++) { // start from the i'th element until the last element for (int j = i + 1; j < n; j++) { // if the desired sum is found, print it if (nums[i] + nums[j] == target) { printf("Pair found (%d, %d)\n", nums[i], nums[j]); return; } } } // we reach here if the pair is not found printf("Pair not found"); } "See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Coding
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  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 

    "1) select avg(session) from table where session> 180 2) select round(sessiontime/300)*300 as sessionbin, count() as sessioncount from table group by round(sessiontime/300)300 order by session_bin 3) SELECT t1.country AS country_a, t2.country AS country_b FROM ( SELECT country, COUNT(*) AS session_count FROM yourtablename GROUP BY country ) AS t1 JOIN ( SELECT country, COUNT(*) AS session_count FROM yourtablename `GROUP BY countr"

    Erjan G. - "1) select avg(session) from table where session> 180 2) select round(sessiontime/300)*300 as sessionbin, count() as sessioncount from table group by round(sessiontime/300)300 order by session_bin 3) SELECT t1.country AS country_a, t2.country AS country_b FROM ( SELECT country, COUNT(*) AS session_count FROM yourtablename GROUP BY country ) AS t1 JOIN ( SELECT country, COUNT(*) AS session_count FROM yourtablename `GROUP BY countr"See full answer

    Data Analyst
    Coding
    +4 more
  • Accenture logoAsked at Accenture 
    +11

    "public static Integer[] findLargest(int[] input, int m) { if(input==null || input.length==0) return null; PriorityQueue minHeap=new PriorityQueue(); for(int i:input) { if(minHeap.size()(int)top){ minHeap.poll(); minHeap.add(i); } } } Integer[] res=minHeap.toArray(new Integer[0]); Arrays.sort(res); return res; }"

    Divya R. - "public static Integer[] findLargest(int[] input, int m) { if(input==null || input.length==0) return null; PriorityQueue minHeap=new PriorityQueue(); for(int i:input) { if(minHeap.size()(int)top){ minHeap.poll(); minHeap.add(i); } } } Integer[] res=minHeap.toArray(new Integer[0]); Arrays.sort(res); return res; }"See full answer

    Machine Learning Engineer
    Coding
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  • Software Engineer
    Coding
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  • "First of all, stack and heap memory are abstraction on top of the hardware by the compiler. The hardware is not aware of stack and heap memory. There is only a single piece of memory that a program has access to. The compiler creates the concepts of stack and heap memory to run the programs efficiently. Programs use stack memory to store local variables and a few important register values such as frame pointer and return address for program counter. This makes it easier for the compiler to gene"

    Stanley Y. - "First of all, stack and heap memory are abstraction on top of the hardware by the compiler. The hardware is not aware of stack and heap memory. There is only a single piece of memory that a program has access to. The compiler creates the concepts of stack and heap memory to run the programs efficiently. Programs use stack memory to store local variables and a few important register values such as frame pointer and return address for program counter. This makes it easier for the compiler to gene"See full answer

    Software Engineer
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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
  • +15

    "def lowestearningemployees(employees: pd.DataFrame) -> pd.DataFrame: selectedcolumns = employees[['id','firstname','last_name','salary' ]] sorteddf = selectedcolumns.sort_values(by='salary', ascending=True) return sorted_df.head(3)"

    Shatabdi P. - "def lowestearningemployees(employees: pd.DataFrame) -> pd.DataFrame: selectedcolumns = employees[['id','firstname','last_name','salary' ]] sorteddf = selectedcolumns.sort_values(by='salary', ascending=True) return sorted_df.head(3)"See full answer

    Coding
    Data Analysis
  • Adobe logoAsked at Adobe 
    Video answer for 'Find the median of two sorted arrays.'
    Software Engineer
    Coding
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  • Adobe logoAsked at Adobe 
    Video answer for 'Given an nxn grid of 1s and 0s, return the number of islands in the input.'
    +14

    " from typing import List def getnumberof_islands(binaryMatrix: List[List[int]]) -> int: if not binaryMatrix: return 0 rows = len(binaryMatrix) cols = len(binaryMatrix[0]) islands = 0 for r in range(rows): for c in range(cols): if binaryMatrixr == 1: islands += 1 dfs(binaryMatrix, r, c) return islands def dfs(grid, r, c): if ( r = len(grid) "

    Rick E. - " from typing import List def getnumberof_islands(binaryMatrix: List[List[int]]) -> int: if not binaryMatrix: return 0 rows = len(binaryMatrix) cols = len(binaryMatrix[0]) islands = 0 for r in range(rows): for c in range(cols): if binaryMatrixr == 1: islands += 1 dfs(binaryMatrix, r, c) return islands def dfs(grid, r, c): if ( r = len(grid) "See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Coding
    +4 more
  • +1

    "import numpy as np class Centroid: def init(self, location, vectors): self.location = location # (D,) self.vectors = vectors # (N_i, D) class KMeans: def init(self, n_features, k): self.nfeatures = nfeatures self.centroids = [ Centroid( location=np.random.randn(n_features), vectors=np.empty((0, n_features)) ) for _ in range(k) ] def distance(self, x,"

    Dinesh G. - "import numpy as np class Centroid: def init(self, location, vectors): self.location = location # (D,) self.vectors = vectors # (N_i, D) class KMeans: def init(self, n_features, k): self.nfeatures = nfeatures self.centroids = [ Centroid( location=np.random.randn(n_features), vectors=np.empty((0, n_features)) ) for _ in range(k) ] def distance(self, x,"See full answer

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    Machine Learning
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