Amazon Interview Question for SDE1s


Country: United States
Interview Type: In-Person




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May be instead of HashTable, we can use Trie.

In case of Trie there will be no collision.

Not sure if the entire dictionary can be maintained in memory.

Did the interviewer mention the number of words and average word size, etc..?

- Subhajit June 03, 2013 | Flag Reply
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just use the string's fingerprint as hash key

- Anonymous June 09, 2013 | Flag Reply
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Your answer looks good to me except you forgot to mention trie in which saves more space. Did the interviewer not like your answers?

- Guy February 06, 2014 | Flag Reply


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