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1. find the dominator of an array with 1,000,000 element and complete within O(n) complexity 2. find the element P in an array which all the elements before P less than or equal to P and the elements after P larger than to equal to P.
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Software Engineering

Interviewed at Block

3.3
Sep 19, 2012

1. find the dominator of an array with 1,000,000 element and complete within O(n) complexity 2. find the element P in an array which all the elements before P less than or equal to P and the elements after P larger than to equal to P.

You need to distribute a terabyte of data from a single server to 10,000 nodes, and then keep that data up to date. It takes several hours to copy the data just to one server. How would you do this so that it didn't take 20,000 hours to update all the servers? Also, how would you make sure that the file wasn't corrupted during the copy?
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Site Reliability Engineer

Interviewed at LinkedIn

3.8
Oct 9, 2013

You need to distribute a terabyte of data from a single server to 10,000 nodes, and then keep that data up to date. It takes several hours to copy the data just to one server. How would you do this so that it didn't take 20,000 hours to update all the servers? Also, how would you make sure that the file wasn't corrupted during the copy?

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