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how would you design how a cellphone implements its contact list when you press a certain letter. For example, If you press M it will tell you all the names starting with M. then if you press MI it will tell you all names starting from MI and so forth....
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Amazon Software Developer Intern

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Apr 1, 2011

how would you design how a cellphone implements its contact list when you press a certain letter. For example, If you press M it will tell you all the names starting with M. then if you press MI it will tell you all names starting from MI and so forth....

We have a log file, can grow pretty big. Each line is a trace-log, and the first field is the RequestID. We need to scan the file, and print all the logs for requests which resulted in error .. 001 <timestamp> BEGIN 001 <timestamp> fetched from db 001 <timestamp> some processing .. 002 <timestamp> BEGIN .. 002 <timestamp> fetched from db 001 <timestamp> returned success 003 <timestamp> BEGIN 001 <timestamp> END 003 <timestamp> some work 002 <timestamp> ERROR 003 <timestamp> some other work
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Software Developer

Interviewed at Booking.com

4.1
Mar 30, 2017

We have a log file, can grow pretty big. Each line is a trace-log, and the first field is the RequestID. We need to scan the file, and print all the logs for requests which resulted in error .. 001 <timestamp> BEGIN 001 <timestamp> fetched from db 001 <timestamp> some processing .. 002 <timestamp> BEGIN .. 002 <timestamp> fetched from db 001 <timestamp> returned success 003 <timestamp> BEGIN 001 <timestamp> END 003 <timestamp> some work 002 <timestamp> ERROR 003 <timestamp> some other work

Short coding : 1. They gave an array A with N elements we need to find if addition of two elements in the array will be the element K Ex: I/P: a[5]={7,3,2,6,4,} K=10; Op:7+3=10 6+4=10 2. Two sorted array a[],b[] will be given we need to merge the array without temporary array. 3. An array arr[] with elements are given we need to sort the odd number in descending on left side and the even numbers in ascending on the right side of the array Ex: I/P: arr[5]={7,4,3,5,2} O/P:7 5 3 2 4
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Software Developer

Interviewed at Zoho

4.2
Feb 17, 2019

Short coding : 1. They gave an array A with N elements we need to find if addition of two elements in the array will be the element K Ex: I/P: a[5]={7,3,2,6,4,} K=10; Op:7+3=10 6+4=10 2. Two sorted array a[],b[] will be given we need to merge the array without temporary array. 3. An array arr[] with elements are given we need to sort the odd number in descending on left side and the even numbers in ascending on the right side of the array Ex: I/P: arr[5]={7,4,3,5,2} O/P:7 5 3 2 4

You are given an array of integers, a1, that have sequential integers 1 through n. ( { 1,2,3,4,5 } or { 1,2,3 } or any other array) You are also given an array of integers, a2, that also have numbers 1 through n, but are not in sequential order and are missing one of the numbers between 1 and n. Find the missing number in a2. Did you check for special cases? Can you do this in O(n) runtime?
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Software Developer Intern

Interviewed at Redfin

3.5
Feb 19, 2016

You are given an array of integers, a1, that have sequential integers 1 through n. ( { 1,2,3,4,5 } or { 1,2,3 } or any other array) You are also given an array of integers, a2, that also have numbers 1 through n, but are not in sequential order and are missing one of the numbers between 1 and n. Find the missing number in a2. Did you check for special cases? Can you do this in O(n) runtime?

Puzzle1 - Given 8 coins, and the fact that one of the coins is heavier than the other, how many times(min) do you need to use a beam balance to figure out which is the anomalous coin? After I answered this, he made it little tougher. Given 9 coins and one anomalous coin(maybe heavier or lighter), figure out which coin it is and whether heavier or lighter. What is the min no of comparisons? This is where i took a while to answer.
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Financial Software Developer

Interviewed at Bloomberg

4
Nov 16, 2010

Puzzle1 - Given 8 coins, and the fact that one of the coins is heavier than the other, how many times(min) do you need to use a beam balance to figure out which is the anomalous coin? After I answered this, he made it little tougher. Given 9 coins and one anomalous coin(maybe heavier or lighter), figure out which coin it is and whether heavier or lighter. What is the min no of comparisons? This is where i took a while to answer.

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