This tag is for questions that came up in an interview.
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Inverting a Scrabble letter score map
Question:
The old system stored a list of letters per score:
1 point: "A", "E", "I", "O", "U", "L", "N", "R", "S", "T",
2 points: "D", "G",
3 points: "B", "C", "M", "P",
4 ...
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Class name search algorithm
Here is a test task from a company, where I'd like to work eventually. I solved all they wanted to me to do, however failed to get an interview. I do not know what is wrong with my solution, because ...
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Find max element in increasing-decreasing array
Question: Find the largest in a list that list is stored as two sections, one in ascending order and the other in descending order. Elements are distinct.
E.g: Input ...
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1answer
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Left rotation arrays algorithm
This is my solution to the common 'Array Rotation' algorithm. As I am currently practicing for coding interviews, I want to make sure that my code in fact valid for coding interview scenarios. Would I ...
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OOP Blackjack in Python
I worked on this for a software engineer interview as the take home challenge. The company came back with this constructive feedback:
You made a slight mistake in ace handling that led to the ...
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Give me some change as asked in interview
Description:
The goal in this problem is to find the minimum number of coins needed
to change the input value (an integer) into coins with denominations 1,
5, and 10
The input consists of ...
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3answers
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Fractional Knapack as asked in an interview
Description:
Given the Knapsack capacity and the weight and value of some items,
find a way to maximize the value in the given Knapsack.
Code:
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Delete all elements from list whose sum with preceding element equals target value
Let me start off by saying that the question specifically implies using std::list<int> and not anything else AND you are allowed to iterate over the list only ...
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4answers
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Keeping track of the tennis score
I'm trying to get hired by some company and they gave me a simple remote test to take at home so they can judge my coding skills.
It's a really simple problem. It's based on the website HackerRank. ...
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2answers
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Calculating cooccurrence probabilities for pairs of words in a document
It is a 1.5 hour coding test, started the moment when the question was sent by email. My solution was done under the strict condition. I was not told anything before the test.
The question is about ...
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3answers
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Template class to demonstrate array manipulation
Today I didn't pass the test task for the position C++ junior/middle developer. What i did wrong?
Please help improve myself.
Task:
Description.
Write a template class - an array of any ...
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3answers
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Building car factory with custom features per car
I was once asked in an interview to build a factory that makes cars.
All cars has common features like price, rating and color and they have some features like fuel injection which can on specific car ...
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1answer
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Pattern searching in 2d grid
This is an interview question which i am trying to solve.
You are given a 2D array of characters and a character pattern. WAP to find if pattern is present in 2D array. Pattern can be in any way (all ...
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Wandering water ways
An entry for the August 2016 Community Challenge
I slightly modified the input and output to suit the snippet tool, and also because I really like the mapped output with the basins.
I have been ...
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1answer
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Implement 3 stacks using a single array in C++
One of the questions that is presented in Chapter 3 for Cracking the Coding Interview is this:
Describe how you could use a single array to implement 3 stacks
I'...
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1answer
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Total number of stops for an elevator to serve certain people
I have seen this question asked around a bit, such as this Code Review question in Java:
Write an optimal program that would determine the total number of stops
a elevator has taken to serve X ...
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2answers
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Google Foobar Challenge: Spy Snippets in Python [closed]
I am getting all the answers correct. But still the solution is not accepted as only 4/5 tests cases are passed.
I have not posted the whole problem statement but the problem is similar to this.
I ...
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1answer
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Implementing a string class in C++
I recently attended an interview for a C++ position in a very reputed bank.
The interviewer started off by asking me to implement a string class but was only interested in constructor, copy-...
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Interview solutions to reverse a string and reverse a sentence
Recently in an interview I was asked to
Write a method to reverse a string. I used StringBuilder but was asked not to use reverse method of builder but iterate ...
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Parsing shorts from binary file and finding the closest and furthest points
A few months ago I got rejected at the technical interview for a position.
The problem that they gave me is the following:
From a binary file, parse two shorts, x and y and build a Point object with ...
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1answer
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Make Simultaneous HTTP Requests That Resolve Into a Single Return
This week, in an ongoing job search, I was tasked with the following pre-screening question:
Make two simultaneous http requests. Use the language and library of your choice. Make sure the results ...
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1answer
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Convert NSInteger into NSString
This is my sample code to convert a integer into string.
Is it very costly to do the multiple loops of [NSMutableString stringWithFormat:..]?
I.e should I just use appendString and get the NSString ...
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Load and analyze a list of people from a file
I recently completed a programming task in Java for a job that was javascript heavy but the hiring company wanted some Java knowledge. I've been using Java since the turn of the year. Other than ...
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Reversing a linked list (Java)
Triggered by an interview question (I didn't answer during the interview) I wrote a Java program to reverse a linked list. I went with a loop-based approach instead of recursion. I would like to know ...
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2answers
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'Broken Record' Coding Challenge
I was asked to complete a coding challenge for an interview. The challenge being to write a test function to check whether or not a string was a broken record. A <...
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Implement an algorithm to determine if a string has all unique characters
I'm working through Cracking the Coding Interview. The first challenge is to implement an algorithm to determine if a string has all unique characters.
I've gone through several iterations, but here'...
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Pseudo Promise.all() polyfill
A few years back I interviewed with a company for a Javascript position. After a couple of warm-up challenges I was presented with this:
Please write a function that calls back with ...
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2answers
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Java controller to farm out concurrent tasks
I've recently given a coding interview on a Java concurrency task and unfortunately didn't get the job. The worst part is I've given my best but now I'm not even sure where went wrong. Can anyone ...
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1answer
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SVG photo mosaic creator
I got this as part of some interview assignment. After some head scratching I think I have done quite well as the result can be seen here:
After transformation(10x10 tile):
More crisp picture ...
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3answers
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Finding the duplicate with an array with 1,000,000 integers between 1 and 1,000,000
I recently had an interview and got to phase 2 which is a coding assessment. One of the questions was:
Given an array with 1,000,000 integers between 1 and 1,000,000, one integer is in the array ...
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Find the first non-repeating character in a string: (“DEFD” → E)
I recently had an interview and got to phase 2 which is a coding assessment. One of the questions was:
Find the first non-repeating character in a string: ("DEFD" --> E)
I didn't pass the coding ...
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4answers
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Program to display array elements in the ascending order of number of factors each element has
Input:
1000 23 100 26 32
Output:
23 26 32 100 1000
Since 23 has '2' factors and 26 has '4' factors and 32 has '6' ...
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Flatten an array
I have got this interview question which has asked me to write a production level code which flattens the arbitrary nested array of arrays.
Code
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A custom String Builder implementation
Two code files below : the actual logic & the test logic.
Core Logic
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Counting permutations without repetitions for a number or a string
Can I make the following code faster with minor modifications? It times out on CodeWars website.
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2answers
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Returning a filtered list of iPhones
I have just received feedback regarding a junior dev test that I submitted. It was unfortunately not great, and the recruiter could not articulate the issues, I tried to show that I was thinking about ...
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Rails controller to manage EC2 instances
I did a small sample application for an Interview. Since I didn't got accepted I would like your opinion on how to improve it.
The aux methods are private.
I have a ...
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Improving time efficiency of finding maximum area rectangles in a histogram
Here's my solution but I am looking for ways to improve the time complexity of solution. Also this question is categorized as being solved by stack so I would like to know how to approach it using ...
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Recursive solution for merging two sorted lists [closed]
I came up with a recursive solution for merging two sorted list in Python in interviewbit:
Merge two sorted linked lists and return it as a new list.
The new list should be made by splicing ...
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Improving time complexity of finding the longest palindrome in Python
The Longest Palindromic Substring challenge from InterviewBit:
Given a string S, find the longest palindromic substring in S.
where a "substring" must be contiguous, and in case of ties the ...
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1answer
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Create a generator that returns every permutation (unique arrangement) of positive integers up to n
I watched this video from The Unqualified Engineer on YouTube and tried out the challenge. The challenge (or interview question) is to build a generator that returns all the permutations of the ...
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Top 5 most common words in Python
I would like to hear feedbacks from an interviewer's perspective on how to improve the following code:
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Bitcoin trading system
Recently I did an exercise for a interview pre-screening, but was not selected. They did not give much detailed feedback apart from "the code was not up to what they wanted".
It would be really ...
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Match Three game for a job interview using Cocos2d-x
The problem is that I had an interview for a gaming company and I had to write a prototype of a Match Three style game. The time line was 3 days. I made the code in about 2 days and sent it to them.
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Find majority element in an array given constant external space
Given constant external space (yes no HashMap), how would you improve the following code (code-wise or complexity-wise with stress on the latter) to find the ...
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Rearrange String such that similar characters are placed at least 'K' distance apart
So I was asked this in an interview, and I had to write this code on a white board. Sadly I couldn't complete the code :( .
I've realized that writing code on white board is completely different ...
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Detecting if two given strings are isomorphic using Java data structures
So I have written the following code and it works for various same length isomorphic strings I have tried. However I am not sure what are some time complexity improvements and coding tweaks that could ...
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4answers
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Reverse Polish Notation Evaluation in Java
I would like to hear feedback about my code both in term of improving efficiency if possible or using other data structures. Also go ahead and let me know about code styles/patterns.
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