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You have a n number of cities. Lets say city 1 has some information that needs to be sent to all other n-1 cities using minimal cost. Cost between each pair of cities is given. any number of cities can transmit the information once they receive the information but the overall total cost should be minimum
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Software Engineer

Interviewed at Google

4.4
Nov 2, 2011

You have a n number of cities. Lets say city 1 has some information that needs to be sent to all other n-1 cities using minimal cost. Cost between each pair of cities is given. any number of cities can transmit the information once they receive the information but the overall total cost should be minimum

You have a genealogy: 1) Describe a data structure to represent it. 2) Given any two people within the genealogy, describe an algorithm to determine if they share a common ancestor. You just need to return true/false, not all ancestors.
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Software Engineer

Interviewed at Google

4.4
Mar 21, 2010

You have a genealogy: 1) Describe a data structure to represent it. 2) Given any two people within the genealogy, describe an algorithm to determine if they share a common ancestor. You just need to return true/false, not all ancestors.

Given a string write a function which prints all the subsets of the string. Now make the function to return only unique solutions. For example if they give you "abc" you print out a ab abc ac b bc c Now for the unique solution constraint, if they give you "aba" the output should be: a ab aba b
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Software Engineer Intern

Interviewed at Meta

3.6
Dec 13, 2013

Given a string write a function which prints all the subsets of the string. Now make the function to return only unique solutions. For example if they give you "abc" you print out a ab abc ac b bc c Now for the unique solution constraint, if they give you "aba" the output should be: a ab aba b

Question is verbose, uses search engine, string matching etc., but at the end boils down to this: There is two dimensional array where each sub array (row) is sorted, i.e. [[1 1000 2000] [20 10001 5000] [55 10002 222222]] Find a minimum range contain a number from each row. For above array it should be (1000-1002) range.
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Software Engineer

Interviewed at Meta

3.6
Mar 8, 2014

Question is verbose, uses search engine, string matching etc., but at the end boils down to this: There is two dimensional array where each sub array (row) is sorted, i.e. [[1 1000 2000] [20 10001 5000] [55 10002 222222]] Find a minimum range contain a number from each row. For above array it should be (1000-1002) range.

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