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Suppose that you earn 100% annual interest (APY) on $1 initial deposit. How long before you'll be as rich as Bill Gates ($63 billion)? Given a number, e.g., 314159, as an array [3,1,4,1,5,9], increment it: change it to [3,1,4,1,6,0].
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Software Engineer

Interviewed at Google

4.4
Feb 12, 2013

Suppose that you earn 100% annual interest (APY) on $1 initial deposit. How long before you'll be as rich as Bill Gates ($63 billion)? Given a number, e.g., 314159, as an array [3,1,4,1,5,9], increment it: change it to [3,1,4,1,6,0].

you have a sequence where each number is a multiple of 2 or 5 (so: 2^i * 5^j). he gave the beginning of the sequence as 1,2,3,4,5,8,10,16... and asked me to find an algorithm to calculate the next number in the sequence.
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Interviewed at Google

4.4
Mar 10, 2010

you have a sequence where each number is a multiple of 2 or 5 (so: 2^i * 5^j). he gave the beginning of the sequence as 1,2,3,4,5,8,10,16... and asked me to find an algorithm to calculate the next number in the sequence.

1. Phone interview - Sort the characters in string by frequency and then by their alphabetical order. Example - bbaaccc -> cccaabb 2. The question that screwed me - given array is [0,1,1,0,1,1,1] ; output should be [0,1,1,0,1,2,3] ie., for every non-zero element in array, find its distance to the nearest zero in O(n) time. i would definitely encourage the candidates who read this post to share their solution for this question. 3. In order traversal of Binary search tree related (the solution is to start from right sub tree).
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Software Engineer

Interviewed at Bloomberg

4
Dec 29, 2016

1. Phone interview - Sort the characters in string by frequency and then by their alphabetical order. Example - bbaaccc -> cccaabb 2. The question that screwed me - given array is [0,1,1,0,1,1,1] ; output should be [0,1,1,0,1,2,3] ie., for every non-zero element in array, find its distance to the nearest zero in O(n) time. i would definitely encourage the candidates who read this post to share their solution for this question. 3. In order traversal of Binary search tree related (the solution is to start from right sub tree).

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