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Asked at LinkedIn • 6 months ago
Design and implement a ranked cache system.
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"Similar to LRU, Keep a Sorted LinkedList based on ranks. To improve efficiency of storage changed to PriorityQueue (minHeap). Later was asked about threading and how you can scale it in a distributed system"
Arjun R. - "Similar to LRU, Keep a Sorted LinkedList based on ranks. To improve efficiency of storage changed to PriorityQueue (minHeap). Later was asked about threading and how you can scale it in a distributed system"See full answer
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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 Meta (Facebook) • 7 months ago
Leetcode 227: Given a string containing non-negative integers, mathematical operators, and spaces, implement a basic calculator to evaluate the expression.
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Asked at Discord • a year ago
Build a TCP chat server.
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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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Asked at MongoDB • 8 months ago
Review the given code for a React.js based Tic-tac-toe game written in Typescript and suggest improvements.
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"I walked through the code for a react.js based tic-tac-toe game written in typescript. The goal was to find ways to improve the code/ suggest improvements. I missed some areas like where state was being updated directly rather than using React's setState. There were issues around clear and maintainable logic, adherence to React best practices."
Natalie C. - "I walked through the code for a react.js based tic-tac-toe game written in typescript. The goal was to find ways to improve the code/ suggest improvements. I missed some areas like where state was being updated directly rather than using React's setState. There were issues around clear and maintainable logic, adherence to React best practices."See full answer
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