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Hi all,
On one of the video Gayle presents the following problem -
"Given p number of people with their birth year and their death year, return the year with the maximum population".

At the same video she also states the best possible solution is O(P+Y) s.t. P is the number of peoples and Y is the length of the array of the years from the minimal birth year to the maximal death year, Can't the optimal solution be O(P)?

Here's how -
Generally she achieved a solution of O(P+Y) since she iterate through all the peoples in the input getting the minimal year and the maximal year that is O(P) which gives her Y the total number of years all the people was living in, then she instantiate an array on the size of Y that is O(Y), then she goes through every person in the input, add +1 for birth and -1 for deaths so that is O(P) and lastly she goes through all the array of years summing up the number of +1\-1 to that point which is giving her the number of people living in that year so again O(Y), all together it's O(P+Y+P+Y) => O(P+Y)

However - using a TreeMap (a hashmap that uses an inner tree to sort the dataset) we can achieve O(P), here's how -
traverse the people input and for every person p on the people list add +1 for the person birth year and -1 for the person death year that will end up with a tree with total (MAX) of 2*p nodes and traversing the tree to every year can yield that same result as traversing an array on the size of Y (however using a tree with 2p nodes is much memory efficient than using an array with potentially a-lot of unused 0's) while traversing the tree we can also keep int max which is the year with the max alive people in it.

Isn't that a better solution? or am I missing something?

Given a <Word, TimeStamp> pair data type iterator as input. Implement an iterator based on it which can ignore the item if the same word has occurred in the past 10 seconds.

My implementation is to use a HashMap to memorize the word and its latest timestamp + 10s. For each new item, it will be checked against the HashMap to see if it has duplicated word occurred in the past 10s.

The interviewer asked me how to improve the space complexity if the string value varieties are infinite. He mentioned some boundary stuff.

Could anyone share some thoughts?

Given 2 Linked Lists containing single digit as data representing number with most significant digit at head and least significant at the tail return the addition of both.

The solution must not reverse the given linked lists and do it in O(n) time complexity and constant space complexity(Recursive solution will take O(n) space because of stack).

For example:

9 -> 3 -> 2 -> 2 ->

+

3 -> 4 -> 8 -> 3 ->

=

1 -> 2 -> 8 -> 0 -> 5

Take as input N, a number. Take N more inputs and store that in an array.

a. Write a recursive function which counts the number of ways the array could be split in two groups, so that the sum of items in both groups is equal. Each number in the array must belong to one of the two groups. Print the value returned.

b. Write a recursive function which keeps track of ways an array could be split in two groups, so that the sum of items in both groups is equal. Each number in the array must belong to one of the two groups. Return type of function should be void. Print the two groups, each time you find a successful split.
Input Format:

Take as input N, a number. Take N more inputs and store that in an array.

Hi, I have a technical phone interview coming up and I was wondering what kind of questions will be asked? Thanks in advance.

Using tools like memtool one can read the memory addresses and dump it on screen. But, mapping these bits into their meaning as per SOC's register definition is a tedious and error prone task.

So, i am working on developing a tool that can take the memtool output and then map it to the SOC register bits.

I have SOC register header file and memtool as inputs. The challenging part is parsing through the SOC register header file some way and may be create an intermediate output which helps in mapping the data.

Please suggest what would be best approach to follow here, when it comes to parsing through the SOC register header file.

Where do I find EPIC test questions on this site to practice for the test? Many thanks.

I want to create a web application online java compiler where you can put the code and compile it to see the results, i just don’t know where to start from.

C++ programming - Trying to master complexities like O(log(N))

Time Period - couple of weeks

Maybe you fixed this already in 7th.

In 6th edition, question 4.11, the question only specifies a binary tree but the answer assumes a binary search tree. Which is exactly a thing you told us to look out for. So I was.

EDIT: Although this doesn't really seem to affect the answer.

Also, for the love of all things holy, invest in some spam-blocking on the forums!

You are given 2 Strings A and B. You have to transform A to become B.

Following are the type of transformation possible:

1. pick an alphabet and replace all occurrences of this alphabet in the string by the next alphabet in the sequence[a,b,c,d----y,z]. Note that the next alphabet for z is a. The whole operation counts as one operation with Cost C is given as input.

2.pick an alphabet and replace all occurrences of this alphabet in the string by the previous alphabet in the sequence[a,b,c,d----y,z]. Note that the next alphabet for a is z. The whole operation counts as one operation with Cost D is given as input.

You have to return the minimum cost to transform A to B. if it's not possible return -1

Example:
A: "ab"
B: "cc"
C:2
D:5

Answer : 4


we need two C operations "ab" -->"bb"-->"cc"

Note that the last step of converting all b to c counts as one operation

What can be a possible system design with classes & methods to compute who owes what ?for an application similar to splitwise -
A - > B - Transaction 1
A -> B - Transaction 2
-> C

Hi,

I've held the interview process at Amazon for a position in one of the european offices.

So I got contacted by a recruiter, I did an online test, afterwards a phone interview, after that on-premise interviews.

I had 4 on-premise interviews, each a one-on-one with a Software Manager, 2 of them were algorithms, 1 was architecture and another was Software Design.

After 2 weeks I received a call from the recruiter. She told me I've passed the interview process, but there was predicament and I will not be receiving an offer from the center I applied to, and I will receive an offer from another european office on the same day.

3 months have passed, I haven't received any offer and the recruiter stopped responding, I have sent several mails and still no reply.

I still don't know what happened, my resumee wasn't that good, was my application lost in the process.

I don't know if it's worth trying again, if things like this happen. I know I've spent a full month, preparing, not sleeping well. I've never felt prepared for the interviews, also I wasn't outstanding on them, going through that again seems a bit much.

What do you guys think, should I try again, has anyone else had the same experience?

creating a RESTful service using which players can play a simple game described
below.
The game should have the following rules:
• The player has an infinite amount of coins.
• The player bets 10 coins to play a normal game round.
• In any round (free or normal), the player has a 30% chance of winning back 20 coins.
• In any round (free or normal), the player also has a 10% chance of triggering a free round where
the player does not have to pay for bet. The free round works in the same way as a normal round except
it costs 0 coins. The free round should follow immediately after the normal round.
• The player can both win coins and free round at the same time.

got rejected, I think I did well for all rounds, maybe not behavioral questions. They didn't give any feedback.

the questions were not hard at all.

one round, I only got asked behavioral questions for 45 mins. really not that much to say

disappointed

i have phone screens of linkedin, vmware and msft lined up. Any suggestions whats the level of questions for phone screen ? also vmware hacker rank questions ?

Question:
You are given an information on Cat object such as name,height and weight. For eg following:

String[] names = {"a","b","c","d","e","f","g","h"};
Integer[] height = {31,24,67,12,45,21,31,12};
Integer[] weight = {120,124,160,130,175,120,124,142};

You have to write a method which takes the following input and return the list of Cat objects which satisfies the input criteria. For eg

searchCriteria could be : HEIGHT or WEIGHT
searchValue could be : Integer value of either HEIGHT or WEIGHT
symbol could be : "<" , ">", or "="

Amazon is known for its tough tech screening rounds but even if you nail those technical question with best possible solution, are you getting screwed??

Before this experience, I would have said NO but now it is looking different..

I was being picked up by their recruiter and asked to present myself for phone screening as they liked my experience (thats what they said ).

Now, I wouldnt mind.. being the fact that I am doing great in what I am doing.. its just a 1 hour call.

Well, call lasted for like 55 mins.. Was asked 2 algorithmic questions with code and follow ups and some pretty team / experience related question..

I nailed the tech rounds so much that the interviewer said, I got questions done with most optimal solutions and of course before time.

So, if they liked my experiences ( thats what they said they called me at first place).. Did they rejected me for same experience or Amazon interview has become a joking ground now?

Any thoughts??

1. Consider most important classes & ignore Interfaces as of now
2. FIDS is not about reservation system but the dasboard to display
3. the information will look like:

DEPARTURES
----------------------
Attributes:
STD, Airline,Flight#,Destination/Via,CheckInCounter#,Gate,Status,ETD

Values :
12:50,KingFisher,6E352,Hyderabad,A-B,23,Check-In Open,13:15

ARRIVALS
-----------------------
Attributes:
STA,Airline,Flight#,Destination/Via,Gate,Status,ETA

Values :
12:50,KingFisher,6E352,UK/Mumbai,Terminal2,Landed,13:15

Can someone tell me what are the coding and algorithm questions expected for Amazon QAE ?