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1: Quite simple question, calendar related calculation. 2: Something close to binary search, find the missing number from consecutive integers. e.g., 0, 1, 2, 4, 5, should return 3. A little tricky for boundary conditions. Another simple question but cannot remember. 3: Double linked list insert and delete, with some special conditions. Simple. Another OOD question. 4: Something like leetcode jump game. But the jump length depends on the last jump made. For example, in step N, the man jumped M, the next step he can jump M-1, M or M+1.
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Jan 23, 2013

1: Quite simple question, calendar related calculation. 2: Something close to binary search, find the missing number from consecutive integers. e.g., 0, 1, 2, 4, 5, should return 3. A little tricky for boundary conditions. Another simple question but cannot remember. 3: Double linked list insert and delete, with some special conditions. Simple. Another OOD question. 4: Something like leetcode jump game. But the jump length depends on the last jump made. For example, in step N, the man jumped M, the next step he can jump M-1, M or M+1.

The interviewer confused me like hell when describing the question. Every node of the tree has a pointer to its left most child. each node has a pointer to its next sibling. Its a BST. Find the smallest value in the tree.
Feb 25, 2013

The interviewer confused me like hell when describing the question. Every node of the tree has a pointer to its left most child. each node has a pointer to its next sibling. Its a BST. Find the smallest value in the tree.

1. Given a non-negative integer array that is then shuffled and 1 element is removed, find which element was removed. 2. Assume you are designing/writing code for some small business software how would you go about creating a clean, extensible method for calculating sales tax that can be extended easily to work in different parts of the world. 3. (Two separate questions) 3a. Given an integer array, remove the duplicate values and return an integer array 3b. Test a dice role generator method 4. Design a system for tracking employee applicants through the interview process
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Interviewed at Microsoft

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Dec 13, 2013

1. Given a non-negative integer array that is then shuffled and 1 element is removed, find which element was removed. 2. Assume you are designing/writing code for some small business software how would you go about creating a clean, extensible method for calculating sales tax that can be extended easily to work in different parts of the world. 3. (Two separate questions) 3a. Given an integer array, remove the duplicate values and return an integer array 3b. Test a dice role generator method 4. Design a system for tracking employee applicants through the interview process

Print all permutations of a string *using no extra memory\data structures* (pointer variables are ok) + after i solved that it became tougher - handle duplicates (E.g aaab permutation should not print duplicates)
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Oct 4, 2010

Print all permutations of a string *using no extra memory\data structures* (pointer variables are ok) + after i solved that it became tougher - handle duplicates (E.g aaab permutation should not print duplicates)

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