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CODING (weight: 50%) The string "PAYPAL IS HIRING" is written in a zigzag pattern on a given number of rows like this: (you may want to display this pattern in a fixed font for better legibility) P A H N A P L S I I G Y I R And then read line by line: PAHNAPLSIIGYIR Write the code that will take a string and make this conversion given a number of rows: String convert(String text, int nRows); convert("paypalishiring", 3) should return "pahnaplsiigyir"
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Software Engineer

Interviewed at PayPal

3.6
Dec 19, 2011

CODING (weight: 50%) The string "PAYPAL IS HIRING" is written in a zigzag pattern on a given number of rows like this: (you may want to display this pattern in a fixed font for better legibility) P A H N A P L S I I G Y I R And then read line by line: PAHNAPLSIIGYIR Write the code that will take a string and make this conversion given a number of rows: String convert(String text, int nRows); convert("paypalishiring", 3) should return "pahnaplsiigyir"

iOS developers have a "dispatch_after(when, queue, block)" Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) function they can utilize but once it's set up, these calls can not be easily cancelled. Describe how you might implement a more convenient version of this named "cancellable_dispatch_after"
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IOS Developer

Interviewed at Meta

3.6
Jan 14, 2016

iOS developers have a "dispatch_after(when, queue, block)" Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) function they can utilize but once it's set up, these calls can not be easily cancelled. Describe how you might implement a more convenient version of this named "cancellable_dispatch_after"

Was given a homework question(2days): Program using a language of your choice the following assignment, given a file of sorted strings (one string per line, example file was given) sorted according to some unknown alphabet, recover the order of characters of this alphabet.
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Software Engineer

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Jan 5, 2010

Was given a homework question(2days): Program using a language of your choice the following assignment, given a file of sorted strings (one string per line, example file was given) sorted according to some unknown alphabet, recover the order of characters of this alphabet.

You have the file with word at a single line. #input sample file abactor abaculus abacus Abadite . . Zyrenian #Output ******************a **********b ************************c a) you have to count the character and create a histogram in alphabetical order. b) now you have to produce a histogram with max 80 character in line in reference to max count c) now same out based histrogram based on the character count
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Perl Developer

Interviewed at Booking.com

4.1
Mar 24, 2014

You have the file with word at a single line. #input sample file abactor abaculus abacus Abadite . . Zyrenian #Output ******************a **********b ************************c a) you have to count the character and create a histogram in alphabetical order. b) now you have to produce a histogram with max 80 character in line in reference to max count c) now same out based histrogram based on the character count

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