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Find the first index of the substring. Condition: Do not use java library function or regular expressions. And measure the performance of your implementation with the standard java library function. Examples: String 1: “abcdefg” String 2: “bcd” Should return 1 String 1: “abcdefg” String 2: “x” Should return -1
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Software Engineer

Interviewed at Salesforce

4.1
May 2, 2012

Find the first index of the substring. Condition: Do not use java library function or regular expressions. And measure the performance of your implementation with the standard java library function. Examples: String 1: “abcdefg” String 2: “bcd” Should return 1 String 1: “abcdefg” String 2: “x” Should return -1

Come out with an algorithm for getting the column number provided the column name in a excel sheet and vice versa. Excel has a naming convention of A,B..Z,AA,AB,AC..ZZ,AAA... This had to be converted to the column numbers. A will be 1 and AA will 27.. Also the algorithm to find the name provided column number.
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Software Engineer

Interviewed at Google

4.4
Mar 19, 2009

Come out with an algorithm for getting the column number provided the column name in a excel sheet and vice versa. Excel has a naming convention of A,B..Z,AA,AB,AC..ZZ,AAA... This had to be converted to the column numbers. A will be 1 and AA will 27.. Also the algorithm to find the name provided column number.

Given a string with only ')' and '(' find if the string is complete or not. If the string is complete means that each open paranthesis should have a corresponding closed one. Eg: String s= "((()))()"- Complete String String s1=")()()()())))(()()()((" - Incomplete String
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Software Developer

Interviewed at Google

4.4
Feb 24, 2012

Given a string with only ')' and '(' find if the string is complete or not. If the string is complete means that each open paranthesis should have a corresponding closed one. Eg: String s= "((()))()"- Complete String String s1=")()()()())))(()()()((" - Incomplete String

Implement a function string balanceParanthesis(string s); which given a string s consisting of some parenthesis returns a string s1 in which parenthesis are balanced and differences between s and s1 are minimum. Eg - "(ab(xy)u)2)" -> "(ab(xy)u)2" ")))(((" -> ""
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Software Engineer

Interviewed at Meta

3.6
Aug 9, 2011

Implement a function string balanceParanthesis(string s); which given a string s consisting of some parenthesis returns a string s1 in which parenthesis are balanced and differences between s and s1 are minimum. Eg - "(ab(xy)u)2)" -> "(ab(xy)u)2" ")))(((" -> ""

class A { public A() { foo(); } public void foo() { System.out.println("Class A"); } } class B extends A { public B(){} public void foo() { System.out.println("Class B"); } } class main { public static void main(String[] args) { A a = new B(); } } What does it print? Class A or Class B?
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Software Engineer

Interviewed at Bloomberg

4
Oct 25, 2012

class A { public A() { foo(); } public void foo() { System.out.println("Class A"); } } class B extends A { public B(){} public void foo() { System.out.println("Class B"); } } class main { public static void main(String[] args) { A a = new B(); } } What does it print? Class A or Class B?

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