Write a program to reverse a singly linked list? Modify that program to reverse a doubly linked list.
Perl Algorithm Interview Questions
Assume that you have access to an employee's email Inbox, and that you can parse the content of their emails, including the email headers.
- How can you use this to deduce their first-degree connections?
- What kind of heuristics can you come up with to quantify the strength of these first-degree connections?
- How can you use this to deduce their second-degree connections?
- How can you use this to deduce their third-degree connections?
Suppose you have an array of 99 numbers. The array contains the digits 1 to 100 with one digit missing. Describe four different algorithms to compute the missing number. Two of these should optimize for low storage and two of these should optimize for fast processing.
Write a string to find a substring in a given string. Do this in O(n) or better
Write an iterative function to reverse a string. Do the same thing as a recursive function.
Write a function to implement strstr() i.e. find the first occurrence of one string inside another string.
Write a program to print out a multiplication table, from 1x1 to 12x12. This should look like:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24
3 6 9 12 15 18 21 24 27 30 33 36
4 8 12 16 20 24 28 32 36 40 44 48
5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60
6 12 18 24 30 36 42 48 54 60 66 72
7 14 21 28 35 42 49 56 63 70 77 84
8 16 24 32 40 48 56 64 72 80 88 96
9 18 27 36 45 54 63 72 81 90 99 108
10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120
11 22 33 44 55 66 77 88 99 110 121 132
12 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 132 144
Explain big o notation and how it is useful in computer science to classify algorithms.
- What order is a hash table lookup?
- What order is determining if a number is even or odd?
- What order is finding an item in an unsorted list?
- What order is a binary search?
Describe bitwise operators AND, OR, XOR and NOT. Describe how you might use these.
How do these bitwise operators differ from logical operators?
Write a program to find the largest integer in an array of integers.
Write a function that sums up integers from a text file that looks like the following:
1
3
27
2
2123
Write function to print the odd numbers from 1 to 99
If you have access to a function that returns a random integer from one to five, write another function which returns a random integer from one to seven.
Discuss an algorithm to traverse a tree, depth first.
Design a system to efficiently calculate the top 1MM Google search queries and create a report of these. Additionally:
- You are given twelve servers
- Each has two processors, 4GB of ram and four 400GB hard drives.
- The machines are networked
- The log data as roughly 100 Billion log lines in it.
- The log data comes in twelve, 320 Gb files.
- Each line of the files has roughly 40 search queries
- You can only use open source software or software that you write.
Write a function to efficiently determine the result of a game of Tic Tac Toe.
The function takes as input the game and the sign (x or o) of the player. The function returns if this player has won the game or not.
Carefully consider both the data structure and the algorithm for your answer.
Efficiently calculate the shortest distance between two Facebook users given an API endpoint that returns all friends of a given user.
Given any integer, efficiently find the next highest integer that uses the same digits.
For example if the number is 15432, you should return 21345.
Write a function that takes an integer and returns the smallest number that is greater than the given number which is a palendrome.
For example, if the input was 111 the next palindromic number would be 121.
Write a function that, given a word and a dictionary will efficiently return the minimal edits (character addition or deletion) to get to a word that exists in the dictionary.
Write a function, tokenize_string(input_string, delimiter_list) that returns a list of strings that are separated by the delimiters.
For example: tokenize_string("How now, Mrs. Brown Cow") returns ['How', 'now', 'Mrs', 'Brown', 'Cow']
Given two arrays of strings, A and B.
B contains every element in A, and has one additional member, for example:
* A = ['dog', 'cat', 'monkey]
* B = ['cat', 'rat', 'dog', 'monkey']
Write a function to find the extra string in B. Do this in O(n)
Write a function that takes as input two numbers represented as strings, and returns the product of the numbers of a string.
The numbers can be arbitrarily large.
Write a function that takes a an array of integers, and returns the contiguous subsequence of integers with the largest sum.
Write a function to return the Nth number of Fibonacci sequence.