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Input is a 4x4 table with letters. One starts from any of the 16 elements and can move in one step to any of the 8 neighboring cells not visited before (up, down, left, right, up-left, etc, no hyperspace jumps between rows 1 & 4, columns 1 & 4). Every time step is made letter in that cell is added so a word is built as we walk. These generated words are looked up in external dictionary (function to look up in the dictionary is provided, I did not understand significance of this dictionary well) and the goal of the exercise is to output all words generated by all possible table walks and which are contained in the dictionary.
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Software Engineer

Interviewed at Google

4.4
Mar 12, 2011

Input is a 4x4 table with letters. One starts from any of the 16 elements and can move in one step to any of the 8 neighboring cells not visited before (up, down, left, right, up-left, etc, no hyperspace jumps between rows 1 & 4, columns 1 & 4). Every time step is made letter in that cell is added so a word is built as we walk. These generated words are looked up in external dictionary (function to look up in the dictionary is provided, I did not understand significance of this dictionary well) and the goal of the exercise is to output all words generated by all possible table walks and which are contained in the dictionary.

The hardest problem posed was the C# function I had to write. Write a function that accepts a character parameter such as "8" and then returns its digit value which would be 8 in this case. You cannot use any helper functions, casting or conversion functions. int ParseCharToInt(char c)
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Software Engineer

Interviewed at Cornerstone OnDemand

3.2
Jan 25, 2013

The hardest problem posed was the C# function I had to write. Write a function that accepts a character parameter such as "8" and then returns its digit value which would be 8 in this case. You cannot use any helper functions, casting or conversion functions. int ParseCharToInt(char c)

given a chess board that is 3 x 3 squares, and only one piece, the knight, write a program that will move the knight from any starting location to any other (given) location in the board and return an error if it can not.
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MTS1 Software Engineer

Interviewed at eBay

3.9
Mar 23, 2014

given a chess board that is 3 x 3 squares, and only one piece, the knight, write a program that will move the knight from any starting location to any other (given) location in the board and return an error if it can not.

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