#1: We have a linked list, but it is special in that it can have pointers down, as well as next. Any node can have an arbitrary number of links down as well as across. Write a function that will "flatten" this linked list so that it does not have any down pointers, but all elements remain in order.
Some problems were quite difficult for this position. Maybe the interviewers didn't like me personally. Check if two linked list intersect, if so, find the intersection point. Travelling salesman problem.
Classic one from them: You have an array and you want to find the first non-repeating element.
If you have all the companies that are traded, and live inputs are coming of which company is being traded and what is the volume, how do you maintain the data, so that you can carry out operation of giving the top 10 most traded companies by volume of shares most efficiently.
unsorted integer array size n. unmodifiable list of "less than" / "greater than" operators. place elements from int array in between each "<" and ">" operator so that every comparison holds true. e.g. 6, 2, 8, 1, 3, 9, 4, 0, 5, 7 <, >, <, <, <, >, <, >, > answer: 0 < 9 > 1 < 2 < 3 < 8 > 4 < 7 > 6 > 5
1) Find the intersection of two arrays as a set. 2) Find the mirror or a binary tree. 3) Find the first non unique character in a stream of potentially infinite data.
Algorithm runtime analysis: What's the complexity of computing the fibonacci numbers?
Implement a queue class.
The chessboard problem. I first mentioned BFS and use of a Queue but the interviewer kept asking about some data structure with less memory that I could extract due to the simple structure of the graph. I did not understand what he meant. I eventually mentioned DFS and proved it works uses less memory. The cache problem took a long time. I kind of though I failed it at some point. I had no prior knowledge of the topic since I am not a CS guy. I eventually, used an array to store the access time to different items and O(n) search through it to find the least frequently used one. The interviewer did not raise the complexity. He wanted me to write code on a paper (which is hard, esp. in C).
Implement a function to raise a number to an exponent using your language of choice.
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