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Aside from the usual types of interview questions what stood out was being given a programming problem 48 hours before the in-person interview. The instruction were clear that a range of solutions were possible and functioning code was not mandatory.
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Principal Software Engineer

Interviewed at Newforma

4.2★
Oct 8, 2018

Aside from the usual types of interview questions what stood out was being given a programming problem 48 hours before the in-person interview. The instruction were clear that a range of solutions were possible and functioning code was not mandatory.

Implement a method 'find' that will find the starting index (zero based) where the second list occurs as a sub-list in the first list. It should return -1 if the sub-list cannot be found. Arguments are always given, not empty. Sample Input 1 list1 = (1, 2, 3) list2 = (2, 3) Sample Output 1 1 Explanation As second list (2, 3) is sub-list in first list (1, 2, 3) at index 1 Sample Input 2 list1 = (1, 2, 3) list2 = (3, 2) Sample Output 2 -1
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Principal Software Developer

Interviewed at Atlassian

3.1★
Jun 23, 2016

Implement a method 'find' that will find the starting index (zero based) where the second list occurs as a sub-list in the first list. It should return -1 if the sub-list cannot be found. Arguments are always given, not empty. Sample Input 1 list1 = (1, 2, 3) list2 = (2, 3) Sample Output 1 1 Explanation As second list (2, 3) is sub-list in first list (1, 2, 3) at index 1 Sample Input 2 list1 = (1, 2, 3) list2 = (3, 2) Sample Output 2 -1

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