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Connect Four is a game where two players take turns dropping their color discs into a vertically suspended grid. The game ends when a player adds a disc to the playing grid that connects four discs of their color. The connected discs can be in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal line. Write a function to be called after every turn that returns true if the game is over (and false otherwise).
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Software Development Engineer Intern

Interviewed at Microsoft

4
Mar 19, 2009

Connect Four is a game where two players take turns dropping their color discs into a vertically suspended grid. The game ends when a player adds a disc to the playing grid that connects four discs of their color. The connected discs can be in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal line. Write a function to be called after every turn that returns true if the game is over (and false otherwise).

Merge 2 sorted arrays A and B Result should end up in B, which has available space for all items Utilize the space in B, not using temporary arrays Result in sorted array in B A { 2, 5, 8, 12, 15} B { 3, 5, 7, 9, , , , , , }
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Software Development Engineer

Interviewed at Microsoft

4
Dec 7, 2016

Merge 2 sorted arrays A and B Result should end up in B, which has available space for all items Utilize the space in B, not using temporary arrays Result in sorted array in B A { 2, 5, 8, 12, 15} B { 3, 5, 7, 9, , , , , , }

1) I have class hierarchy and should create array of different instances of this hierarchy. They asked me to write a function which iterates this array and executes different methods according to the instance class. I suggested that downcasting is a bad idea and that it can violate Liskov substitution rule of the SOLID principles, and this problem should be solved using collections and generics, but they did not accept this answer 2) Create Queue N size using only N size array. 3) some Java concurrency related questions: synchronized volatile, atomic, etc....
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Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at Taboola

4.2
Dec 6, 2015

1) I have class hierarchy and should create array of different instances of this hierarchy. They asked me to write a function which iterates this array and executes different methods according to the instance class. I suggested that downcasting is a bad idea and that it can violate Liskov substitution rule of the SOLID principles, and this problem should be solved using collections and generics, but they did not accept this answer 2) Create Queue N size using only N size array. 3) some Java concurrency related questions: synchronized volatile, atomic, etc....

Given an array of unique non-negative integers, {A1,…,An}, and a positive integer, X, write a function that finds all pairs of numbers in the array that sum to X”. You are given an integer array nums sorted in ascending order (with distinct values), and an integer target. Suppose that nums is rotated at some pivot unknown to you beforehand (i.e., [0,1,2,4,5,6,7] might become [4,5,6,7,0,1,2]).” Take a singly-linked list, and reorder in such a way that the first element points to the last element, second element points to second-to-last element, and so on.
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Software Engineer

Interviewed at Expedia Group

3.7
Feb 1, 2021

Given an array of unique non-negative integers, {A1,…,An}, and a positive integer, X, write a function that finds all pairs of numbers in the array that sum to X”. You are given an integer array nums sorted in ascending order (with distinct values), and an integer target. Suppose that nums is rotated at some pivot unknown to you beforehand (i.e., [0,1,2,4,5,6,7] might become [4,5,6,7,0,1,2]).” Take a singly-linked list, and reorder in such a way that the first element points to the last element, second element points to second-to-last element, and so on.

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