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Microsoft Interview Question for Software Engineer / Developers






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Ridiculous !!! the interviewer actually mentioned the microsoft-forbidden "G" word !!!!

- Vel November 03, 2007 | Flag Reply
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Very Easy..
Build a Patricia tree with all workds in the dictionary..
When user presses 'r' the tree is travesed from root to the node that has workds starting with 'r'...
Following that when the user presses 'a'
narrow down to look for a node in subtree that has words with 2nd letter as 'a'.... Or a Chaild node a...

Sample Dictionary Tree will be as:

Root
|
----------------------------------
| | | | | | | |
a b c d e f ...... z
| | | | | | .......|
--------- ------------
|......| |..........|
a.......z a...........z
|
-------
|......|
a......z

So the word ape will be traced as a-level1 then p-level2 and e in level 3...

Time to seach is O(logn)

- KSD October 20, 2007 | Flag Reply
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that is usually done using AJAX I guess...

- blackpepper February 28, 2008 | Flag Reply
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There's no way a MS interviewer would even think about using gmail as an example :)

- fake March 26, 2008 | Flag
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Guys relax, enjoy the fruit... why you care which tree it comes from ?


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix_tree
csse.monash.edu.au/~lloyd/tildeAlgDS/Tree/PATRICIA/

- algooz April 27, 2008 | Flag Reply


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