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Find the location of BCD in String S.
Given for example S = BCXXBXXCXDXBCD, then the result should be [[4,7,9],[11,12,13]
find BCBC in String S = BCXXBXCXBCBC
the result should be [[0,1,4,6],[8,9,10,11]]

Given multiple tuples in the form of (A,B) where A is the parent and B is the child in a binary tree, find if the input is valid or not. 4 error conditions were provided:
1. If a parent has more than 2 children,
2. If duplicate tuples entered,
3. If the tree has a cycle,
4. If more than one root possible.

For violation of multiple validity conditions, print the condition coming first in the above order.
If the input is valid, print the tree in a serial representation. For eg: If input is (A,B), (B,C), (A,D), (C,E) , output: (A(B(C(E)))(D))

Design a catalog system – Restaurants, Items, Categories, VariantGroups like Size, Variants like (S,M,L), AddOnGroups like Extra cheese, AddOns like White Cheese, Yellow Cheese. Price of item will vary on variant selected and even addon price will vary on variant selected.

Design Flipkart Flash sale architecture. 2 million hits and 20k orders in 2 sec.

Given character a-z find out nth permutation. Where all permutation are only ascending. For e.g

Given characters a,b,c. valid permutations are : a,b,c,aa,ab,ac,bb,bc,cc,aaa,aab,aac,abb,acc,baa,bab,bac,bbb,bbc,bcc,caa,cab,cac,cbb,cbc,ccc

Ex- 4th permutation is : aa

Given customer Geo Location(Lat-Long) and List of Restaurants. Each restaurant consist of :

- Lat long of restaurant
- Name
- List of Items, where each item has
- Item Name
- Prep Time
- Sensitivity ( Low, Medium, High). Lower sensitive items like Icecream cannot be delivered more than 2 KM.

- Find out List of Restaurant Given Customer and Cart is Empty
- Find out SLA(Time to deliver) given cart, restaurant and Cutomer
- Parameters should be Configurable like Sensitivity, Max prep time etc

Use the location data getting generated from multiple delivery boys moving on the ground to estimate time which a delivery boy will take to move from point A to point B in an area. Additionally, try to do this in real time so that it can be used in assigning delivery boys and minimising delivery time in real time.

In a binary tree if the neighbours are set on fire for every node , find the path to optimally set the entire tree on fire.

Given an input stream of Swiggy order timestamps and costs, at any instant find the costliest order in the last X mins

You have a plot with a limited amount of points on it.
Find the cluster of points, which contains the biggest amount of point grouped together.

Conditions:
The cluster means, that points are placed not farther than 5 units (Can be measured px, cm, etc.) between each other. The distance is calculated by where

|x1-x| < 5

and

|y1-y| < 5

The cluster should contain at least 3 points.
If there are a few clusters with the same amount of points - return all of them.

Example:
The points are:
(15,116), (1345, 123), (456, 11), (34, 17), (19, 112), (556, 111), (454, 15), (12, 120).
In this case, the best cluster is (15,116), (19, 112), (12, 120)

"Good Range"

There is a number space given from 1 to N. And there are M queries followed by that. In each query, we were given a number between 1 to N (both inclusive). We add these number one by one into a set.

Good range: A range in which there is exactly one element present from the set.

For each query, we need to find the good ranges. We need to return the sum of boundry of all good ranges.

Input:
First line will take two integer for input N and M.
Then following M lines would be numbers between 1 and N (both inclusive).

Output:
Following M lines contains sum of boudaries of good ranges.

Note:
Range can consist of single element and represented as (x-x) where boundary sum will be x+x.

Example:

Input:
10 4
2
5
7
9

Output:
11
18
30
46

Explaination:
step-1) set: 2
good range: (1-10)
sum: 1+10=11

step-2) set: 2 5
good range: (1-4), (3-10)
sum: 1+4+3+10=18

step-3) set: 2 5 7
good range: (1-4), (3-6), (6-10)
sum: 1+4+3+6+6+10=30

step-4) set: 2 5 7 9
good range: (1-4), (3-6), (6-8), (8-10)
sum: 1+4+3+6+6+8+8+10=46

You are given an N-Dimensional list with 2 methods:
i) getDim -> returns the dimensions .e.g [5,4,3].
ii) getElement([i,j,k]) -> return list[i][j][k] . You have to implement a method to sum all elements in the list.

Design a system to upload images with tags. The tags should be searchable and search should return images linked to those tags.

given array and max element in array. Find no. of elements present between a given range in O(1). You can do one time processing of array.

LCA of directed graph.

Design Movie Review system using OOP concepts. Code should pass all test cases.

Which is best coaching in Kota for IIT JEE Preparation?

Has anyone interviewed with Microsoft, Fargo North Dakota? Care to share the experience and some interview questions?

String1 -- "aaabb"
String2 -- "aaabbbb"
String3 -- "aaabbb"
These are sample strings. The problem stated that a given string has to be cut in such a fashion that the remaining characters in the string, say a and b have same character count. If not, then the method returns false.
In case the string already has characters with same frequency of occurrence as in case 3, then just return true. Return type can be assumed to be Boolean.

Tried to solve problem using substring() method in java by running a loop over the string, but could not arrive at a solution.

Tree Game
class TreeNode {
TreeNode parent; //parent node
TreeNode left; //left child
TreeNode right; //right child
}
Two people in a game, player scores by claiming nodes in binary tree, tree node class as shown above.
The player who eventually owns more nodes wins the game.
Player A and B each claims a node at first.
After the first round, a player will only be able to claim a node adjacent to any node owned by himself.
A tree node is adjacent to its parent, left right and right child.
A node owned cannot be re-claimed.
End game when all nodes are owned.
If player A gets the first claim at node N, find whether it is possible for player B to win.
If yes, find out which node player B should claim at his first move.

Follow up: if player B takes the first hand instead, which node should he pick?

It will gain you more knowledge, intensify your soft skills,strong work ethics and grow your network
What is the answer please?

Give m balls and n bins. Find out how many ways to assign balls to bins. Notice the buckets has no order. Like (1,2,3) and (3,2,1) are considered the same.
eg, m = 3, n = 2, return 2. (1, 2) and (3, 0)

Given items as Shirt, Trouser, Shoes, Tie, Belt, Shocks, and dependencies as -
Tie can be worn after Shirt
Belt can be worn after Shirt and Trouser
Shocks can be worn after Trouser
Shoes can be worn after Shocks

Find various orders in which the activity of wearing clothes can be completed.

Write your own class for key value store which has four methods:
put(key,value)
get(key)
getRandom() this should return a random value with equal probability

deleteWithKey(key)


I was allowed to use hashmap internally to store data.

this was my second technical phone interview because they wanted to get some more idea about my technical skills.

At first Interviewer asked me to write a problem to solve sudoku and return error if sudoku is invalid.

I told him I already had seen the problem before and he said he really appreciates my honesty.

this was my second technical phone interview because they wanted to get some more idea about my technical skills.

Given an array of integers find all combination of numbers (regardless of length) that add up to a particular sum. (Subset sum problem)

I dont remember the exact problem anymore. but the problem's solution included going through an array and at every step taking 2 minimum element and adding the result. this also includes the result itself.

so lets say for following array:

2,54,4,10,1,7

you first take 1 and 2 and add
then add the result 3 to the array
so now your array looks like :
3,54,4,10,7

then you take 3 and 4 and add them and add result back

I basically used a heap where i take two mins and add them and add the result back to heap.

I have give amazon online test twice in last 8 months and both the times the first question was about heaps and second something about finding shorted path in a grid between two cells

The problem was very similar to the problem from geeksforgeeks:

Shortest distance between two cells in a matrix or grid
Given a matrix of N*M order. Find the shortest distance from a source cell to a destination cell, traversing through limited cells only. Also you can move only up, down, left and right. If found output the distance else -1.

instead of source and destination, they asked for robot to be able to get rid of obstacle at a certain cell.


I have give amazon online test twice in last 8 months and both the times the first question was about heaps and second something about finding shorted path in a grid between two cells

Design amazon online book store.

I am given jobs with starttime and end time and we unlimited VMs. at any point a VM can only take one job. so bascially I had to find overlapping jobs and assign them to different machines and those that are not overlapping could be assigned to same machines. The tricky part was when there are two different overlaps and they could be assigned to 2 machines instead of all overlapping jobs being assigned to different machines.The method should return minimum number of VMs used to finish all jobs.

I mentioned sorting the jobs based on start time. and then returning number_of_overlapping jobs +1. but again in some cases if there are two different overlaps which could be assigned to two machines then we need to take care of that.