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Pinterest Interview Question for Software Engineer Interns


Country: United States
Interview Type: In-Person



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Some questions to follow
1) "Knowing a value between 0 and 1 for every one of them" What does this mean? Can you please give example.
2) How do you rank people i.e top 5 ?

- DashDash April 30, 2013 | Flag Reply
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It's the value of the probability that you are looking for that person.
If you are close friends then the value will be bigger.
You should output the first 5 values in descending order.

- BingBang May 01, 2013 | Flag
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Create a hash table where keys are people's names. Inside the hash table, have a heap structure where each node in heap is a persons name and the likelihoods of that person being a friend.

Given a name, lookup hash table entry and pick the top 5 items in heap.

- sam May 02, 2013 | Flag Reply
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And how do you implement live search on this? for example if you input "an" it should suggest "Andrew Derpson, Aneesh Derpson, etc" ( and also "Derpson Andrew, etc" )

- BingBang May 09, 2013 | Flag


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