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Two trains are traveling towards each other at a certain closing speed and initial distance between them. A bird at another speed is flying from one train to another, turning around every time it reaches a train. How far does the bird fly before the trains collide?
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Senior Principal Engineer

Interviewed at Broadcom

3.3
Sep 19, 2014

Two trains are traveling towards each other at a certain closing speed and initial distance between them. A bird at another speed is flying from one train to another, turning around every time it reaches a train. How far does the bird fly before the trains collide?

The word problem and sample data were ill-defined, but what they were looking for was this: Given an ordered list, find elements i and j that have the largest difference (element[i]-element[j]). Constraints: j>i and time complexity O(n).
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Principal Software Engineer

Interviewed at HERE Technologies

3.9
Jan 30, 2016

The word problem and sample data were ill-defined, but what they were looking for was this: Given an ordered list, find elements i and j that have the largest difference (element[i]-element[j]). Constraints: j>i and time complexity O(n).

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