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The chessboard problem. I first mentioned BFS and use of a Queue but the interviewer kept asking about some data structure with less memory that I could extract due to the simple structure of the graph. I did not understand what he meant. I eventually mentioned DFS and proved it works uses less memory. The cache problem took a long time. I kind of though I failed it at some point. I had no prior knowledge of the topic since I am not a CS guy. I eventually, used an array to store the access time to different items and O(n) search through it to find the least frequently used one. The interviewer did not raise the complexity. He wanted me to write code on a paper (which is hard, esp. in C).
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Financial Software Developer

Interviewed at Bloomberg

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Jul 11, 2014

The chessboard problem. I first mentioned BFS and use of a Queue but the interviewer kept asking about some data structure with less memory that I could extract due to the simple structure of the graph. I did not understand what he meant. I eventually mentioned DFS and proved it works uses less memory. The cache problem took a long time. I kind of though I failed it at some point. I had no prior knowledge of the topic since I am not a CS guy. I eventually, used an array to store the access time to different items and O(n) search through it to find the least frequently used one. The interviewer did not raise the complexity. He wanted me to write code on a paper (which is hard, esp. in C).

There are one hundred closed lockers in a hallway. A man begins by opening all one hundred lockers. Next, he closes every second locker. Then he goes to every third locker and closes it if it is open or opens it if it is closed (e.g., he toggles every third locker). After his one hundredth pass in the hallway, in which he toggles only locker number one hundred, how many lockers are open?
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Financial Software Developer

Interviewed at Bloomberg

4
Nov 25, 2011

There are one hundred closed lockers in a hallway. A man begins by opening all one hundred lockers. Next, he closes every second locker. Then he goes to every third locker and closes it if it is open or opens it if it is closed (e.g., he toggles every third locker). After his one hundredth pass in the hallway, in which he toggles only locker number one hundred, how many lockers are open?

If you have all the companies that are traded, and live inputs are coming of which company is being traded and what is the volume, how do you maintain the data, so that you can carry out operation of giving the top 10 most traded companies by volume of shares most efficiently.
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Financial Software Developer Intern

Interviewed at Bloomberg

4
Apr 14, 2013

If you have all the companies that are traded, and live inputs are coming of which company is being traded and what is the volume, how do you maintain the data, so that you can carry out operation of giving the top 10 most traded companies by volume of shares most efficiently.

unsorted integer array size n. unmodifiable list of "less than" / "greater than" operators. place elements from int array in between each "<" and ">" operator so that every comparison holds true. e.g. 6, 2, 8, 1, 3, 9, 4, 0, 5, 7 <, >, <, <, <, >, <, >, > answer: 0 < 9 > 1 < 2 < 3 < 8 > 4 < 7 > 6 > 5
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2013 Financial Software Developer

Interviewed at Bloomberg

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Sep 13, 2013

unsorted integer array size n. unmodifiable list of "less than" / "greater than" operators. place elements from int array in between each "<" and ">" operator so that every comparison holds true. e.g. 6, 2, 8, 1, 3, 9, 4, 0, 5, 7 <, >, <, <, <, >, <, >, > answer: 0 < 9 > 1 < 2 < 3 < 8 > 4 < 7 > 6 > 5

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