Microsoft Interview Question for Software Engineer / Developers


Country: United States
Interview Type: Phone Interview




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Divide memory into 9 parts: quick sort on 8 parts: merge all sorted values into 9 th part

- Ishan July 18, 2015 | Flag Reply
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Around 10^9 operations can be performed in one second, so this should be around 7-8 seconds.

- Anonymous July 25, 2015 | Flag Reply
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1GB is about 256 * 1024 * 1024 numbers and sort operation need about nlogn = 2.56 * 10^8 * 16 * 1024 = 4 * 10^12 operations, and the time will be 4000 s.

- Eidolon.C July 27, 2015 | Flag
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sorry i calculated wrongly, the time should be 2.56 * 10^8 * 8 * 10 / 10^9 = 20s

- Eidolon.C July 27, 2015 | Flag


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