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In a party of N people, only one person is known to everyone. Such a person may be present in the party, if yes, (s)he doesn’t know anyone in the party. We can only ask questions like “does A know B? “. Find the stranger (celebrity) in minimum number of questions.
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Software Development Engineer

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Aug 3, 2016

In a party of N people, only one person is known to everyone. Such a person may be present in the party, if yes, (s)he doesn’t know anyone in the party. We can only ask questions like “does A know B? “. Find the stranger (celebrity) in minimum number of questions.

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.

""" # Question 2: # Fill in the blanks # # Given an array containing None values fill in the None values # with most recent non None value in the array # # For example: # - input array: [1,None,2,3,None,None,5,None] # # - output array: [1,1,2,3,3,3,5,5] #
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Data Engineer

Interviewed at Meta

3.6
Jun 8, 2020

""" # Question 2: # Fill in the blanks # # Given an array containing None values fill in the None values # with most recent non None value in the array # # For example: # - input array: [1,None,2,3,None,None,5,None] # # - output array: [1,1,2,3,3,3,5,5] #

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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