Facebook Interview Question for Software Engineers


Country: UK
Interview Type: Phone Interview




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function scan(&$root) {
	if ($root === NULL) {
		return;
	}
	scan($root->left);
	scan($root->right);
	if ($root->left !== NULL && $root->right !== NULL) {
		$root->data = $root->left & $root->right;
	}
}

- Bappa Sarkar May 22, 2017 | Flag Reply
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function scan(&$root) {
if ($root === NULL) {
return;
}
scan($root->left);
scan($root->right);
if ($root->left !== NULL && $root->right !== NULL) {
$root->data = $root->left & $root->right;
}
}

- Bappa Sarkar May 22, 2017 | Flag Reply
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Pretty simple solution.
Just one thing needs clarification: what do you do when a node only has 1 child.

def correct(root):
	if not root:
		return 0
	if not root.left and not root.right:
		return root.val
	root.val = int(correct(root.left) & correct(root.right))
	return root.val

- horvthpeter May 22, 2017 | Flag Reply
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If last nodes of the tree have left = None and right = None

def invert_tree(node):
	if node.left == None and node.right == None:
		node.value ^= 1
	else:
		node.value = invert_tree(node.left) & invert_tree(node.right)
	return node.value

- Yevgen May 23, 2017 | Flag Reply
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The question is a little bit ambiguous.... I thought the question was asking that given an array of leafs you had to construct a correct tree. Here is a simple python code that does that

def print_tree(leafs):
    current_level = leafs
    print current_level
    while len(current_level) > 1:
         next_level = map(lambda x: int(x[0] and x[1]),
                          [current_level[x:x+2] for x in xrange(0, len(current_level), 2)])
         print next_level
         current_level = next_level

- Fernando May 23, 2017 | Flag Reply
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My running python solution:

#You have a binary tree which consists of 0 or 1 in the way, that each node value is a LOGICAL AND between its children:

#     0
#   /   \
#  0     1
# / \   / \
#0   1  1  1

#You need to write a code, which will invert given LEAF and put tree in a correct state.

class Node:
	def __init__(self,value = "", left = None, right = None):
		self._value = value
		self._left  = left
		self._right = right


def updateTree(node):
	if node._left is not None and node._right is not None:
		updateTree(node._left)
		updateTree(node._right)
		node._value = node._left._value and node._right._value

def invert(root, leaf):
	if leaf._left != None or leaf._right != None:
		return 
	leaf._value = not leaf._value
	updateTree(root)

def initTree(number):
	if number == 0:
		return None
	return Node(False,initTree(number -1),initTree(number -1))

def printTree(node):
	if node == None: return
	printTree(node._left)
	printTree(node._right)
	print node._value

def main():
	root = initTree(3)
	root._left._right._value = True
	root._right._left._value = True
	root._right._right._value = True
	updateTree(root)
	printTree(root)
	print "after invert the first child"
	invert(root,root._left._left)
	printTree(root)

if __name__ == "__main__":
	main()

- nunziomeli5 May 23, 2017 | Flag Reply
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C++ solution. Given the root and the node in question, we first construct the path from the root to the node, then we set the value of each node in this path to 'false'. I am not 100% satisfied with my path to node function, It would probably be better off with an iterative solution instead of a recursive one.

struct Node
{
  bool val;
  Node *left, *right;
  Node(bool input)
    : val {input}
    , left {nullptr},
    , right {nullptr}
  {}
  
};

std::vector<Node*>
pathToNode(Node* root, Node* needle)
{
  std::vector<Node*> result;
  if(root == nullptr) return result;

  if(needle == nullptr) return result;

  if(root == needle){
    result.push_back(needle);
    return result;
  }
  //look left
  result = pathToNode(root->left, needle);
  if(result.size() != 0){
    result.push_back(root);
    return result;    
  }

  //look right
  result = pathToNode(root->right, needle);
  if(result.size() != 0){
    result.push_back(root);
    return result;
  }

  return result;
  
}

void
invertLeaf(Node* root, Node* needle)
{
  auto path = pathToNode(root, needle);
  for(auto node : path){
    node->val = false;
  }
}

- fred May 31, 2017 | Flag Reply
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I suppose the tree does not have parent pointers. This can be done using postorder

public Node changeTree(Node root, Node leaf){
if(root == null || (root.left == null && root.right == null)){
return root;
}

Node leftNode = changeTree(root.left, leaf);
Node rightNode = changeTree(root.right, leaf);
if(leftNode == leaf){
	leftNode.val = leftNode.val == 1 ? 0: 1;
}
else if(rightNode == leaf){
	rightNode.val = rightNode.val == 1 ? 0: 1;
}

root.val = leftNode.val & rightNode.val;
return root;

}

- Anonymous September 27, 2017 | Flag Reply


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