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Given two words as Strings, determine if they are isomorphic. Two words are called isomorphic if the letters in one word can be remapped to get the second word. Remapping a letter means replacing all occurrences of it with another letter while the ordering of the letters remains unchanged. No two letters may map to the same letter, but a letter may map to itself. * * Example: * given "foo", "app"; returns true * we can map 'f' -> 'a' and 'o' -> 'p' * * given "foo", "boa"; returns false * we can map 'f' -> 'b', 'o' -> 'o', we can't map 'o' -> 'a' * * given "bar", "foo"; returns false * we can't map both 'a' and 'r' to 'o' * * given "turtle", "tletur"; returns true * we can map 't' -> 't', 'u' -> 'l', 'r' -> 'e', 'l' -> 'u', 'e' ->'r' * * given "ab", "ca"; returns true * we can map 'a' -> 'c', 'b' -> 'a' */
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Software Engineer

Interviewed at LinkedIn

3.8
May 29, 2015

Given two words as Strings, determine if they are isomorphic. Two words are called isomorphic if the letters in one word can be remapped to get the second word. Remapping a letter means replacing all occurrences of it with another letter while the ordering of the letters remains unchanged. No two letters may map to the same letter, but a letter may map to itself. * * Example: * given "foo", "app"; returns true * we can map 'f' -> 'a' and 'o' -> 'p' * * given "foo", "boa"; returns false * we can map 'f' -> 'b', 'o' -> 'o', we can't map 'o' -> 'a' * * given "bar", "foo"; returns false * we can't map both 'a' and 'r' to 'o' * * given "turtle", "tletur"; returns true * we can map 't' -> 't', 'u' -> 'l', 'r' -> 'e', 'l' -> 'u', 'e' ->'r' * * given "ab", "ca"; returns true * we can map 'a' -> 'c', 'b' -> 'a' */

If you had twelve identical looking-balls except that one weighed more or less than the other 11, and could weigh the balls (or any subset) three times, how can you find the correct ball and whether it weighed more or less?
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Software Developer

Interviewed at JPMorganChase

3.9
Sep 27, 2011

If you had twelve identical looking-balls except that one weighed more or less than the other 11, and could weigh the balls (or any subset) three times, how can you find the correct ball and whether it weighed more or less?

Phone Interview: The question was very open ended and related to Matrix (Basically, a form of Graph) Traversal, had to figure it out the exact requirements first and then come up with the sol. with the time constraints. P.S: I couldn't make it through the Phone Interview
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Software Engineer- Early Career

Interviewed at Google

4.4
Aug 18, 2021

Phone Interview: The question was very open ended and related to Matrix (Basically, a form of Graph) Traversal, had to figure it out the exact requirements first and then come up with the sol. with the time constraints. P.S: I couldn't make it through the Phone Interview

Surprisingly the questions were found on the famous cracking the code interview. Like : find the lowest common ancestors of two nodes in a binary tree. (O(n) time). If each node has a pointer to parent, solve the problem in o(logn) time and o(1) space.
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Software Engineer

Interviewed at Google

4.4
Sep 24, 2012

Surprisingly the questions were found on the famous cracking the code interview. Like : find the lowest common ancestors of two nodes in a binary tree. (O(n) time). If each node has a pointer to parent, solve the problem in o(logn) time and o(1) space.

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