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Asked to write a method were it's passed an array of numbers and a single number. I needed to return true if there was two numbers in the array that if added totaled the single number. I was then asked to rewrite it to make it run faster.
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Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5★
Mar 4, 2014

Asked to write a method were it's passed an array of numbers and a single number. I needed to return true if there was two numbers in the array that if added totaled the single number. I was then asked to rewrite it to make it run faster.

One bridge, 4 people. A, B, C, D. A takes 2 mins to cross the bridge, B 4 mins, C 8 mins, D 16mins. It is dark and 1 torch. So, 2 people need to cross the bridge at the same time, so that one person can bring back the torch for the next group to cross the bridge. The 2 pepole group walks at the pace of the slower walker. How to cross the bridge in the fasted way?
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Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at Roblox

3.7★
Aug 20, 2011

One bridge, 4 people. A, B, C, D. A takes 2 mins to cross the bridge, B 4 mins, C 8 mins, D 16mins. It is dark and 1 torch. So, 2 people need to cross the bridge at the same time, so that one person can bring back the torch for the next group to cross the bridge. The 2 pepole group walks at the pace of the slower walker. How to cross the bridge in the fasted way?

# a list of strings. Each string is a management / report relationship. # # EXAMPLE INPUT: # # [ # 'B,E,F', # 'A,B,C,D', # 'D,G,I', # 'G,H' # ] So, write some code (pseudo or language of your choice, including SQL) for the following: A is the manager of B, C, D. B is the manager of E and F, and so forth. # EXAMPLE OUTPUT: # # A # ....B # ........E # ........F # ....C # ....D # ........G # ............H # ........I
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Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at Reddit

3.9★
May 22, 2019

# a list of strings. Each string is a management / report relationship. # # EXAMPLE INPUT: # # [ # 'B,E,F', # 'A,B,C,D', # 'D,G,I', # 'G,H' # ] So, write some code (pseudo or language of your choice, including SQL) for the following: A is the manager of B, C, D. B is the manager of E and F, and so forth. # EXAMPLE OUTPUT: # # A # ....B # ........E # ........F # ....C # ....D # ........G # ............H # ........I

Design an alert system. You have 500,000 hotels you represent, and about 250,000 are visited each day. You want to track hotel page visits such that, if more than 10 visitors per a) 5 minutes, b) 1 hour, and c) 24 hours occur, then a (different for each time period) "alert" appears when someone visits one of those "hot" hotel pages. Don't worry about the UI part, just design the underlying alert system. Then optimize your solution for space.
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Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at Tripadvisor

3.6★
Apr 6, 2012

Design an alert system. You have 500,000 hotels you represent, and about 250,000 are visited each day. You want to track hotel page visits such that, if more than 10 visitors per a) 5 minutes, b) 1 hour, and c) 24 hours occur, then a (different for each time period) "alert" appears when someone visits one of those "hot" hotel pages. Don't worry about the UI part, just design the underlying alert system. Then optimize your solution for space.

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