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Write a function to determine if a bin tree is a valid BST. I wrote a fully working solution in 3-5 minutes. It was also the most optimal but maybe because she needed to kill time, she asked me to rewrite it in what she thought was optimal (her reasoning didn't make much sense). Then she asked me for time and space requirements of the solutions. I said O(n) for both which is correct but she insisted that the space requirement was O(logn) which is wrong.
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Software Engineer Intern

Interviewed at Meta

3.5
Jan 15, 2013

Write a function to determine if a bin tree is a valid BST. I wrote a fully working solution in 3-5 minutes. It was also the most optimal but maybe because she needed to kill time, she asked me to rewrite it in what she thought was optimal (her reasoning didn't make much sense). Then she asked me for time and space requirements of the solutions. I said O(n) for both which is correct but she insisted that the space requirement was O(logn) which is wrong.

You have 2 jars and 50 black beads and 50 white beads. How many would you put of each color in each jar so that if a bead was randomly selected from both jars, you had the greatest chance they would match? You have to put all of the beads in the jars.
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Software Engineer II

Interviewed at Blackbaud

3.2
Sep 27, 2013

You have 2 jars and 50 black beads and 50 white beads. How many would you put of each color in each jar so that if a bead was randomly selected from both jars, you had the greatest chance they would match? You have to put all of the beads in the jars.

phone numbers: provided a phone number (654-876-0987), return all possible strings that the phone number could represent if 2 -> {A, B, C}, 3 -> {D, E, F}, and so on common substring: find the biggest common substring in 2 strings, "abcdef" "gbcdh" would return "bcd"
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Software Engineer Intern

Interviewed at Meta

3.5
Oct 11, 2012

phone numbers: provided a phone number (654-876-0987), return all possible strings that the phone number could represent if 2 -> {A, B, C}, 3 -> {D, E, F}, and so on common substring: find the biggest common substring in 2 strings, "abcdef" "gbcdh" would return "bcd"

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