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Behavioral Why outreach The impact you hope to have from your next role?What is most important factor in your career/job What do you think about RSpec? How do you compare it with other frameworks What was the hardest/Challenging technical problem you faced and how did you resolve it Coding This problem concerns finding a time when we can do daily recurring maintenance on a server. You are to write a function that is given the following information: List of times when the server is busy every day Duration, in minutes, of the desired maintenance window The function should return the start time of a daily maintenance window when the server is not busy. In pseudo-code, the function signature would look something like this: maintWindowStart(busyTimes, durationMins) -> startTime The "busy times" should be time ranges like the following, and can be represented in whatever data structure you feel is appropriate. 0:05 to 0:30 = [5, 30] 2:00 to 4:01 = [120, 241] 13:10 to 16:55 = [790, 1015] [[5, 30], [120, 541], [790, 1015]] // requested duration -> expected start time // 10 -> 30 // 120 -> 541 // 4 -> 0 // 300 -> 1015
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Senior Backend Software Engineer

Interviewed at Outreach

3.8★
Jan 12, 2018

Behavioral Why outreach The impact you hope to have from your next role?What is most important factor in your career/job What do you think about RSpec? How do you compare it with other frameworks What was the hardest/Challenging technical problem you faced and how did you resolve it Coding This problem concerns finding a time when we can do daily recurring maintenance on a server. You are to write a function that is given the following information: List of times when the server is busy every day Duration, in minutes, of the desired maintenance window The function should return the start time of a daily maintenance window when the server is not busy. In pseudo-code, the function signature would look something like this: maintWindowStart(busyTimes, durationMins) -> startTime The "busy times" should be time ranges like the following, and can be represented in whatever data structure you feel is appropriate. 0:05 to 0:30 = [5, 30] 2:00 to 4:01 = [120, 241] 13:10 to 16:55 = [790, 1015] [[5, 30], [120, 541], [790, 1015]] // requested duration -> expected start time // 10 -> 30 // 120 -> 541 // 4 -> 0 // 300 -> 1015

1. Give you a data structure Seq class Sqe { int value; Seq nex; } and give you two Seq object seq., seq., compare two objects, return true if there is only one difference or no difference, false if more than two differences. 2. Giving a array which has zero and no-zero elements, move all zero elements to the end and no-zero elements to the begin.
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Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at Meta

3.6★
Mar 4, 2015

1. Give you a data structure Seq class Sqe { int value; Seq nex; } and give you two Seq object seq., seq., compare two objects, return true if there is only one difference or no difference, false if more than two differences. 2. Giving a array which has zero and no-zero elements, move all zero elements to the end and no-zero elements to the begin.

Given an array of integers A[1...n], compute the array B[1...n] such that B[k] is the product of all the elements of A, except A[k]. Part ii) Try to do it without division (some mobile devices don't have division). Was asked to write code for part ii.
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Software Engineer

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5★
Sep 29, 2011

Given an array of integers A[1...n], compute the array B[1...n] such that B[k] is the product of all the elements of A, except A[k]. Part ii) Try to do it without division (some mobile devices don't have division). Was asked to write code for part ii.

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