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"You have billions of strings sorted in an array. You don't have any access to it. You just have a method that returns the string pertaining to a index. Use only that method to find the location of a given string" I started out at 0(n^2) and kept on improving to o(logn)
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Software Development Engineer - IT

Interviewed at Microsoft

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Dec 10, 2013

"You have billions of strings sorted in an array. You don't have any access to it. You just have a method that returns the string pertaining to a index. Use only that method to find the location of a given string" I started out at 0(n^2) and kept on improving to o(logn)

Implement a Find-Replace function given a string of text, search string, and replace string. Also a seemingly simple question became very difficult and complex when looked at through the eyes of a tester. A question involved writting a function to classify a triangle given its side lengths.
Mar 7, 2014

Implement a Find-Replace function given a string of text, search string, and replace string. Also a seemingly simple question became very difficult and complex when looked at through the eyes of a tester. A question involved writting a function to classify a triangle given its side lengths.

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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Software Development Engineer

Interviewed at Microsoft

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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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