Recently I attended the interview at Google and I was asked "You are given a sorted list of disjoint intervals and an interval, e.g. [(1, 5), (10, 15), (20, 25)] and (12, 27). Your task is to merge them into a sorted list of disjoint intervals: [(1, 5), (10, 27)]."
Reversing a string
What are index funds and how are they traded in markets?
What are you most proud of. Describe the color yellow to a blind person. What's your favorite book. Where would you travel. What is something about you that is not on your resume.
Why do you want this job?
What was your past experience
Oh we also have another position would you be interested?
Write a sorting algorithm for a numerical dataset in Python.
Man walks into the store with an empty backpack. He grabs several items and you lose sight of him. The next time you see him he is exiting the store with a bulging backpack and the cashiers say he didn't ever make a purchase, what do you do?
products sales +------------------+---------+ +------------------+---------+ | product_id | int |------->| product_id | int | | product_class_id | int | +---->| store_id | int | | brand_name | varchar | | +->| customer_id | int | | product_name | varchar | | | | promotion_id | int | | price | int | | | | store_sales | decimal | +------------------+---------+ | | | store_cost | decimal | | | | units_sold | decimal | | | | transaction_date | date | | | +------------------+---------+ | | stores | | customers +-------------------+---------+ | | +---------------------+---------+ | store_id | int |-+ +--| customer_id | int | | type | varchar | | first_name | varchar | | name | varchar | | last_name | varchar | | state | varchar | | state | varchar | | first_opened_date | datetime| | birthdate | date | | last_remodel_date | datetime| | education | varchar | | area_sqft | int | | gender | varchar | +-------------------+---------+ | date_account_opened | date | +---------------------+---------+ Question 1: What brands have an average price above $3 and contain at least 2 different products? Question 2: To improve sales, the marketing department runs various types of promotions. The marketing manager would like to analyze the effectiveness of these promotion campaigns. In particular, what percent of our sales transactions had a valid promotion applied? Question 3: We want to run a new promotion for our most successful category of products (we call these categories “product classes”). Can you find out what are the top 3 selling product classes by total sales? Question 4: We are considering running a promo across brands. We want to target customers who have bought products from two specific brands. Can you find out which customers have bought products from both the “Fort West" and the "Golden" brands?
Viewing 2591 - 2600 interview questions