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Two City Scheduling (LeetCode 1029). You are given an array of 2N people, where each element contains costA and costB. You need to send exactly N people to City A and N people to City B such that the total cost is minimized.
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SDE 1

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5★
Mar 23, 2026

Two City Scheduling (LeetCode 1029). You are given an array of 2N people, where each element contains costA and costB. You need to send exactly N people to City A and N people to City B such that the total cost is minimized.

questions were straightforward and you will most likely overthink it because it's extremely easy, I think I did not get it because I was feeling very technical and they did not want that. (no leet code) but a technical problem about the web that does not have to do with programming. (if i think about it this job is more IT than computer science)
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Aviation Systems / Web Applications Test Engineer 1

Interviewed at Garmin

3.7★
Feb 13, 2025

questions were straightforward and you will most likely overthink it because it's extremely easy, I think I did not get it because I was feeling very technical and they did not want that. (no leet code) but a technical problem about the web that does not have to do with programming. (if i think about it this job is more IT than computer science)

Question started with generating a basic query given the database, with join and filter based on criteria. Then interviewer asked to implement a function that would do excat same things on any programming language i am comfortable with proper assumtions on which structure you would use for tables and how would you extend to perform this query as well.
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SDE 1

Interviewed at Oracle

3.5★
Apr 5, 2024

Question started with generating a basic query given the database, with join and filter based on criteria. Then interviewer asked to implement a function that would do excat same things on any programming language i am comfortable with proper assumtions on which structure you would use for tables and how would you extend to perform this query as well.

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