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Find the first index of the substring. Condition: Do not use java library function or regular expressions. And measure the performance of your implementation with the standard java library function. Examples: String 1: “abcdefg” String 2: “bcd” Should return 1 String 1: “abcdefg” String 2: “x” Should return -1
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Software Engineer

Interviewed at Salesforce

4.1
May 2, 2012

Find the first index of the substring. Condition: Do not use java library function or regular expressions. And measure the performance of your implementation with the standard java library function. Examples: String 1: “abcdefg” String 2: “bcd” Should return 1 String 1: “abcdefg” String 2: “x” Should return -1

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] #

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