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1A. Given a sorted array of integers, make a binary search tree out of it. Solution is recursive. 1B. What if you're passed a sorted linked list instead of a sorted array? Make a binary search tree out of this now. Solution is recursive. 2. Compute the diameter (look up the definition) of a binary tree. Solution is recursive. 3. Architecture - design the news feed from an Android client point of view. 4. Given a dictionary of strings -> translations, translate an input string. Translations may overlap. For ex: 1->A, 11->B, 111->C. Solution is recursive and involves preprocessing the input dict. 5. Given a queue of jobs, their runtime, and a cool down town, return the total time to finish the jobs. Input could be: A->3,B->2,A->3,A->3 and cool down of 2 after each job. Solution is iterative (and quite simple). 6. Print a binary tree vertically aligned, where a node, it's right child's left child, and it's left child's right child are in the same group. Solution involves passing the groupId to each child. Right child will be curNode.groupId+1 and left child is curNode.groupId-1. Append in a hashtable<int, linkedlist> keyed by groupId.
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Android Software Engineer

Interviewed at Meta

3.6
May 10, 2017

1A. Given a sorted array of integers, make a binary search tree out of it. Solution is recursive. 1B. What if you're passed a sorted linked list instead of a sorted array? Make a binary search tree out of this now. Solution is recursive. 2. Compute the diameter (look up the definition) of a binary tree. Solution is recursive. 3. Architecture - design the news feed from an Android client point of view. 4. Given a dictionary of strings -> translations, translate an input string. Translations may overlap. For ex: 1->A, 11->B, 111->C. Solution is recursive and involves preprocessing the input dict. 5. Given a queue of jobs, their runtime, and a cool down town, return the total time to finish the jobs. Input could be: A->3,B->2,A->3,A->3 and cool down of 2 after each job. Solution is iterative (and quite simple). 6. Print a binary tree vertically aligned, where a node, it's right child's left child, and it's left child's right child are in the same group. Solution involves passing the groupId to each child. Right child will be curNode.groupId+1 and left child is curNode.groupId-1. Append in a hashtable<int, linkedlist> keyed by groupId.

Technical Questions: - Differences between Threads and Android Services - What is Sticky Intent - Differences between Parcelable and Serializable - Talk about Activity/Fragment lifecycle - What is IntentService - Differences between Kotlin and Java - Nullable objects in Kotlin - Kotlin strengths over Java Behavioral Questions: - Talk about different teams who are working on the same project - How to identify what is the problem when it takes around 10sec just for uploading something to the backend. - How to identify if there is an issue in the client-side app
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Senior Android Engineer

Interviewed at Intuit

4.2
Jan 18, 2020

Technical Questions: - Differences between Threads and Android Services - What is Sticky Intent - Differences between Parcelable and Serializable - Talk about Activity/Fragment lifecycle - What is IntentService - Differences between Kotlin and Java - Nullable objects in Kotlin - Kotlin strengths over Java Behavioral Questions: - Talk about different teams who are working on the same project - How to identify what is the problem when it takes around 10sec just for uploading something to the backend. - How to identify if there is an issue in the client-side app

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