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Question Description: Write a function that, given a list of integers (both positive and negative) returns the sum of the contiguous subsequence with maximum sum. Thus, given the sequence (1, 2, -4, 1, 3, -2, 3, -1) it should return 5.
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Software Engineer Intern

Interviewed at LinkedIn

3.8
Dec 4, 2014

Question Description: Write a function that, given a list of integers (both positive and negative) returns the sum of the contiguous subsequence with maximum sum. Thus, given the sequence (1, 2, -4, 1, 3, -2, 3, -1) it should return 5.

You have 2 identical plates which break when thrown higher than a specific number of stories. You are in a 100 story building. What is the least number of tries you must do to determine the story number after which the plates are broken when thrown off the building?
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Software Development

Interviewed at Jane Street

4.4
Feb 29, 2012

You have 2 identical plates which break when thrown higher than a specific number of stories. You are in a 100 story building. What is the least number of tries you must do to determine the story number after which the plates are broken when thrown off the building?

Write a program that given 4 coin denominations and a dollar amount finds the best way to express that amount using the coins given. I.e. you have coins with denominations of 1c, 7c, 13c,19c and you have to express $2.12 with the least number of coins. There is always a 1c coin but the other 3 are arbitrary.
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Software Engineer

Interviewed at Tripadvisor

3.5
Apr 27, 2012

Write a program that given 4 coin denominations and a dollar amount finds the best way to express that amount using the coins given. I.e. you have coins with denominations of 1c, 7c, 13c,19c and you have to express $2.12 with the least number of coins. There is always a 1c coin but the other 3 are arbitrary.

Behavioral Why outreach The impact you hope to have from your next role?What is most important factor in your career/job What do you think about RSpec? How do you compare it with other frameworks What was the hardest/Challenging technical problem you faced and how did you resolve it Coding This problem concerns finding a time when we can do daily recurring maintenance on a server. You are to write a function that is given the following information: List of times when the server is busy every day Duration, in minutes, of the desired maintenance window The function should return the start time of a daily maintenance window when the server is not busy. In pseudo-code, the function signature would look something like this: maintWindowStart(busyTimes, durationMins) -> startTime The "busy times" should be time ranges like the following, and can be represented in whatever data structure you feel is appropriate. 0:05 to 0:30 = [5, 30] 2:00 to 4:01 = [120, 241] 13:10 to 16:55 = [790, 1015] [[5, 30], [120, 541], [790, 1015]] // requested duration -> expected start time // 10 -> 30 // 120 -> 541 // 4 -> 0 // 300 -> 1015
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Senior Backend Software Engineer

Interviewed at Outreach

3.8
Jan 12, 2018

Behavioral Why outreach The impact you hope to have from your next role?What is most important factor in your career/job What do you think about RSpec? How do you compare it with other frameworks What was the hardest/Challenging technical problem you faced and how did you resolve it Coding This problem concerns finding a time when we can do daily recurring maintenance on a server. You are to write a function that is given the following information: List of times when the server is busy every day Duration, in minutes, of the desired maintenance window The function should return the start time of a daily maintenance window when the server is not busy. In pseudo-code, the function signature would look something like this: maintWindowStart(busyTimes, durationMins) -> startTime The "busy times" should be time ranges like the following, and can be represented in whatever data structure you feel is appropriate. 0:05 to 0:30 = [5, 30] 2:00 to 4:01 = [120, 241] 13:10 to 16:55 = [790, 1015] [[5, 30], [120, 541], [790, 1015]] // requested duration -> expected start time // 10 -> 30 // 120 -> 541 // 4 -> 0 // 300 -> 1015

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