Microsoft Interview Question for Software Engineer / Developers


Team: Windows Live!
Country: United States
Interview Type: In-Person




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Check if root node value is
a) between the given nodes' values - if yes, root is LCA
b) root node's value is greater than both nodes, recursively move to left node until you find a node with given1 < value > given2
c)root node's value is lesser than both nodes, recursively move to right node until you find a node with given1 < value > given2

- Mickey February 03, 2012 | Flag Reply
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This would be correct if this was a binary search tree.
But this is a regular binary tree.

- shawn February 17, 2012 | Flag


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