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During the phone interview, the coding question was done on a google doc and asked: In Java, given a String of [a-z] characters, find and return the first character that appears only once. I implemented it using a counting array and in the end the manager asked if I could implement it in another way, which I mentioned I could do it using a HashMap.
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Interviewed at Workday

3.5
Apr 6, 2016

During the phone interview, the coding question was done on a google doc and asked: In Java, given a String of [a-z] characters, find and return the first character that appears only once. I implemented it using a counting array and in the end the manager asked if I could implement it in another way, which I mentioned I could do it using a HashMap.

Excel Sheet Problem: Given a String in method return the column number. Or in other words, convert Excel column number in integer. Input: "A" Output: 1 Input: "AA" Output: 27 Explaination: Column A is very first column in Excel, so return 1.
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Interviewed at PlayStation

4.1
May 6, 2017

Excel Sheet Problem: Given a String in method return the column number. Or in other words, convert Excel column number in integer. Input: "A" Output: 1 Input: "AA" Output: 27 Explaination: Column A is very first column in Excel, so return 1.

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