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Asked at Atlassian, Microsoft • 3 years ago
How would you store a list of numbers as a single number?
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"First thing the interviewee did wrong is not asking clarifying questions. This is the most vague problem I have every heard, and the interviewee just made assumptions and started programming."
Nicholas S. - "First thing the interviewee did wrong is not asking clarifying questions. This is the most vague problem I have every heard, and the interviewee just made assumptions and started programming."See full answer
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Asked at Apple • 8 months ago
Determine the latency for a hashmap with given data.
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"Average case - lookup/insert/delete - o(1) -> assuming a low load factor and uniform hash distribution. Worst case - o(n) -> where are keys collide in same bucket"
Kargi C. - "Average case - lookup/insert/delete - o(1) -> assuming a low load factor and uniform hash distribution. Worst case - o(n) -> where are keys collide in same bucket"See full answer
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Asked at Meta (Facebook) • 3 years ago
Given a collection of rooms where Alibada is in one and moves one room a day to an adjacent room, write a program to determine if you can find Alibada with the given list of rooms.
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"def findAlibaba(countOfRooms, strategy): #countofrooms: num rooms #listRooms rooms to look for alibabba possiblePlaces = [] #initialize rooms for i in range(countOfRooms): possiblePlaces.append(True) for i in range(len(strategy)): roomToCheck = strategy[i] #Room is marked as unavailable possiblePlaces[roomToCheck] = False #Next day calculatins nextDayPlaces = [] for j in range(countOfRooms): nextDayPla"
JOBHUNTER - "def findAlibaba(countOfRooms, strategy): #countofrooms: num rooms #listRooms rooms to look for alibabba possiblePlaces = [] #initialize rooms for i in range(countOfRooms): possiblePlaces.append(True) for i in range(len(strategy)): roomToCheck = strategy[i] #Room is marked as unavailable possiblePlaces[roomToCheck] = False #Next day calculatins nextDayPlaces = [] for j in range(countOfRooms): nextDayPla"See full answer
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