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Suppose you have a rectangle embedded on the plane, and a disk with the points contained within the rectangle. If you randomly throw a fixed triangle into the rectangle, what is the probability all its endpoints are contained within the circle? Suppose you have an array that's k-sorted, i.e. each element is only k indices away from its final sorted order. Sort this array in O(k log n) time.
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Forward Deployed Engineer (Intern)

Interviewed at Palantir Technologies

3.7
Jan 7, 2015

Suppose you have a rectangle embedded on the plane, and a disk with the points contained within the rectangle. If you randomly throw a fixed triangle into the rectangle, what is the probability all its endpoints are contained within the circle? Suppose you have an array that's k-sorted, i.e. each element is only k indices away from its final sorted order. Sort this array in O(k log n) time.

Technical interview was quite simple. 1. What you've been up to lately? 2. Describe HashMap for a layman 3. RAM vs HD for a layman 4. Write a program in any language to capitalize words in a string. Used callabedit.com
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Forward Deployed Software Engineer

Interviewed at Palantir Technologies

3.7
Mar 24, 2014

Technical interview was quite simple. 1. What you've been up to lately? 2. Describe HashMap for a layman 3. RAM vs HD for a layman 4. Write a program in any language to capitalize words in a string. Used callabedit.com

(Coding question:) Verify that a crossword puzzle is correct. This means checking to see that any white square can reach any other white square by moving orthogonally along white squares (not checking to see if answers are correct.
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Forward Deployed Engineer

Interviewed at Palantir Technologies

3.7
Feb 10, 2013

(Coding question:) Verify that a crossword puzzle is correct. This means checking to see that any white square can reach any other white square by moving orthogonally along white squares (not checking to see if answers are correct.

Given a set of events and a set of time ranges. How can I find in how many time ranges a single event is in? Events are expressed as single points in time(single timestamp), time ranges are expressed as starting point and end point.
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Forward Deployed Engineer

Interviewed at Palantir Technologies

3.7
Sep 10, 2015

Given a set of events and a set of time ranges. How can I find in how many time ranges a single event is in? Events are expressed as single points in time(single timestamp), time ranges are expressed as starting point and end point.

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