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Implement a data-structure that supports dictionary operations, get, put, delete, along with a special operation get_random_val; this latter function should return a uniformly random value sampled from all the values in the dictionary. Each function should run in constant time, with the exception of delete, which for this part we relax to linear time.
Sep 7, 2025

Implement a data-structure that supports dictionary operations, get, put, delete, along with a special operation get_random_val; this latter function should return a uniformly random value sampled from all the values in the dictionary. Each function should run in constant time, with the exception of delete, which for this part we relax to linear time.

wierd---as almost all interviewers asked the "Exact" questions. HAve your read thier book, what challenges have you encounter where you had to break the rules/processes to achieve the project goals? What area is your past experience have your process implementation improved or slowed down efficiencies (specific examples are needed)>?...etc.
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Senior Storage Engineer

Interviewed at Koch

3.7
Aug 17, 2017

wierd---as almost all interviewers asked the "Exact" questions. HAve your read thier book, what challenges have you encounter where you had to break the rules/processes to achieve the project goals? What area is your past experience have your process implementation improved or slowed down efficiencies (specific examples are needed)>?...etc.

The equivalent of: "You are provided a file with four space-separated columns containing the scores of students in three subjects. The first column, contains a single character (A-Z) - the identifier of the student. The next three columns have three numbers (each between 0 and 100, both inclusive) which are the scores of the students in English, Mathematics and Science respectively."
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Sr. Storage Engineer

Interviewed at Linode

4.2
Jun 19, 2025

The equivalent of: "You are provided a file with four space-separated columns containing the scores of students in three subjects. The first column, contains a single character (A-Z) - the identifier of the student. The next three columns have three numbers (each between 0 and 100, both inclusive) which are the scores of the students in English, Mathematics and Science respectively."

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