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Given a binary matrix of size M * N. You are given H and V where H denotes the number of horizontal cuts and V represents number of vertical cuts. You need to find whether you can make H and V amount of cuts such that each submatrix formed after the cuts will have equal number of 1. E.g.

4 5
1 1 1 1 1
0 0 1 1 1
0 1 1 1 1
1 0 1 1 1
Given H=1 and V=3, we can make 1st horizontal cut after 2nd row and 3 vertical cuts after 2nd, 3rd and 4th column such that each of the sub matrix will have equal number of 1s.

| ----------------|
| 1 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| ----------------|
| 0 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| ----------------|

Given a remote having 0-9 digits, plus button (to increase channel), minus (to decrease) and previous channel button (to go to previous channel). We were given 2 numbers stating start and end channel number and an array having various channel numbers. The task is to go to all channel numbers given in array with minimum number of clicks.

I was asked the following question in an interview recently, which was a lot more vague and after asking clarification questions came down to this:
```
We have to perform N tests [1, 2, ... N] but in randomized order.
We have access to two functions test(x) and rand(x) which both take an integer.
test(x) returns if the current test was succesful or not and rand(x) returns a random integer
from 1<= rand(x) <= x.
The tests fail because of the sequeunce of tests carried out and we want to figure out which
sequences are bad and which sequences are good.
Basically our task is to generate a sequence of test while carrying them out and return the
sequence either when the test failed or when all tests are done.
```
I understand that the problem could be simplified by calling rand(N) just once, say x = rand(N) then we get the xth permuation of the seuence (1...N) and then call the test() function on this sequence reutrning only the part of sequence that finished successfully, this is deterministic and can be done in O(N) time.
Is there a better approach / solution in Python?

You are given 2 arrays: one representing the time people arrive at a door and other representing the direction they want to go(in or out) You have to find at what time each person will use the door provided no 2 people can use the door at the same time. Constraints: the door starts with ‘in’ position, in case of a conflict(2 or more people trying to use the door at the same time), the direction previously used holds precedence. If there is no conflict whoever comes first uses the door. Also if no one uses the door, it reverts back to the starting ‘in’ position. Should be linear time complexity.

A 2d array has 0 and 1 as values. In one flip, 0's are changed to 1 if and only if any of the neighbors (left, right, top, bottom) is 1. Return the total number of flips required to convert the whole grid to 1's

Given an unsorted array A of size N of non-negative integers, find a continuous sub-array which adds to a given number S.

Problem:
1. Given a Mix of all types of characters which includes Special characters, Numbers, String in a Log file.
for eg: "HappyI%&&87Christmas %%$^%&NewYear"
2. Get the largest substring which
"contains the Characters in Even Position followed by a Special Character and
then a meaningful word should be coming up"

A startup website has a lot of real-time traffic . I want to see the real-time view (refreshed every 1 min) of top 20 users by hit count within last 10 mins. Full distributed system, I have to resolve all the concurrency issues.

Prepare test plan for a new feature of " deposit cheque via mobile app " which is added under menu tab.

Write a function to return string when passed integer . Note : do not use tostring() in built function.

E.g 123 --> "123"

Giving a the following:

A list of a store items T={t_1, t_2,...,t_n}.

A list of prices of each item P={p_1, p_2,...,p_n}.

A list of quantities of each item Q={q_1, q_2,...,q_n}, respectively.

And total bill M.

Our goal is to find any possible list of items that its total value is equal to M using dynamic problem.

Write down a recursive solution.

How do you manage a rate card system. On what all parameters should you be considered while creating a rate card for the seller while shipping a product.

Given an array of positive and negative integers {-1,6,9,-4,-10,-9,8,8,4} (repetition allowed) sort the array in a way such that the starting from a positive number, the elements should be arranged as one positive and one negative element maintaining insertion order. First element should be starting from positive integer and the resultant array should look like {6,-1,9,-4,8,-10,8,-9,4}

Given a binary array {0,1,1,0,0,1,0,0,1} , sort the array in a way that all zeros come to the left and all the one's come to the right side of the array.

Design a service to scan photos/videos for any malware

Write a method that merges a fixed number of streams containing an infinite sequence of monotonically increasing integers into an output stream of monotonically increasing integers. It is important to note that the input stream are infinite, so any solution based on the length of the streams would be considered incorrect.

Note that the question was given in the context of Java with the below code given as the base contract for the method.

public void merge(List<Stream> inputStreams, Stream outputStream) {
	// Implement me
}

This was also provided as the definition of "Stream" in this case, and not what is defined in java.util.stream.Stream.

interface Stream {
	
	// Retrieves but does not remove the next item from the stream
	int peek();

	// Retrieves and removes the next item from the stream.
	int poll();

	// Puts an item into the stream
	void put(int i);
}

Write test cases for earring with diamond, gold clamp, diameter 13mm, width 4mm

Implement union and intersection of two array(in a efficient way).

Additional information given by the interviewer was: elements of the two given array may be repeated but cannot be repeated in union and intersection array.

A co-ordinate plane was given. On each point (x, y) there are x+y number of apples on it. A person is standing on (0, 0) and he wants to buy a square plot having N number of apples inside it (including the periphery). Question was to return the value of perimeter of that square plot given N.

Design distributed crawling system which would be feeded a source url.

Given 'n' servers each having millions of sorted integers. Find distributed median of all the 'n' servers.

Given a binary matrix of 0 and 1 where we can move in 4 directions left, right, top, down and we can only pass through 1's. Find the shortest path from given source coordinate (a,b) to destination (m,n) given we can flip any one of the zero to one.

Program for the given boolean matrix print size of matrix that forms X by 1s
Input:
1 1 1
1 1 1
1 1 1
Otput:3
1 1
1
1 1
That form x and size is 3

Suppose there is a function given to you that:

def get_friends( person_id ) { /*  returns friends of person */ }

How you are now going to recommend friends to a person based on number of mutual friends? So, come up with the function:

def friend_reco( person_id, max_no_of_friends ){ }

Given billions of Identity cards of the form :

card : {
   my_id : "my id",
   "moms_id" : "mom id",
   "dad_id" : "dads id"  
}

If one gives you two Person's id, how can you tell if these 2 persons are blood related.
So, write a function that is:

def is_blood_related( person_id_1, person_id_2 ) // go on..

Design election voting system. Election would be country wide. System should be scalable, available and consistent.

Given a string select two non-overlapping strings that are same and remove them. Perform this operation recursively till there are no desired strings.
Print the number of possible substring after completing above operation.
Ex - abcc
Duplicate non-overlapping substring - abc
After removing abc from we are left with 1 substring abc.

In a 2-D matrix of m*n select m-1 elements from each row such that that the resulting sum is minimum and each column is selected atleast once.

Ex -
2 3 5
3 2 5
4 4 7
Selecting (2,3) from 1st row, (2,5) from 2nd row and (4,4) from 3rd row would result in minimum sum of 20

Find LCA for list of nodes of a tree

Function defined as below -
TreeNode findLCA(TreeNode root, List<TreeNode> nodes)

Given two numbers m and n. Find all numbers between these two numbers such that difference between adjacent digit is 1
For ex m =0 n =22
O/p - 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,12,21