Amazon Interview Question for Principal Software Engineers


Country: United States
Interview Type: Phone Interview




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LOL what? Input from user?
Right end? Second corner?
Which reaches first? HUH

- S O U N D W A V E March 10, 2014 | Flag Reply
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I guess the question is given the initial position of 2 knights which one of them will win.

A logic similar to BFS can be used to find out min number of steps needed to go from 1 cell to another. Once you reach the bottom of the cell stop.
Do the same for the other knight. The one with lesser number of steps is the winner.

- kr.neerav March 10, 2014 | Flag Reply
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Taking the starting position of each knight, and all valid positions for him to move to, find shortest path between his position and the end point. Essentially shortest path in a graph.

- anon March 12, 2014 | Flag Reply


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