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Implement a data-structure that supports dictionary operations, get, put, delete, along with a special operation get_random_val; this latter function should return a uniformly random value sampled from all the values in the dictionary. Each function should run in constant time, with the exception of delete, which for this part we relax to linear time.
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Senior Software Engineer(Online storage)

Interviewed at Affirm

3.9
Sep 7, 2025

Implement a data-structure that supports dictionary operations, get, put, delete, along with a special operation get_random_val; this latter function should return a uniformly random value sampled from all the values in the dictionary. Each function should run in constant time, with the exception of delete, which for this part we relax to linear time.

wierd---as almost all interviewers asked the "Exact" questions. HAve your read thier book, what challenges have you encounter where you had to break the rules/processes to achieve the project goals? What area is your past experience have your process implementation improved or slowed down efficiencies (specific examples are needed)>?...etc.
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Senior Storage Engineer

Interviewed at Koch

3.8
Aug 17, 2017

wierd---as almost all interviewers asked the "Exact" questions. HAve your read thier book, what challenges have you encounter where you had to break the rules/processes to achieve the project goals? What area is your past experience have your process implementation improved or slowed down efficiencies (specific examples are needed)>?...etc.

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