Bloomberg LP Interview Question for Financial Software Developers






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We need a set of all common (non keywords) words to begin with.
Now scan the book from first page to the last and check ignoring the common words and the remaining words constitute the index of the book.

- Anonymous June 19, 2010 | Flag Reply
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I think this will give you appendix of the book

- Anonymous June 30, 2010 | Flag
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I am not sure about the exact answer , but I feel something related to the interpolation search may be helpful .

- Abhik June 17, 2010 | Flag Reply
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linked list
Search the book, add a link when you come to a new chapter. every node contains chapter number page number, chapter name and abstract.

- Huangxinyu June 20, 2010 | Flag Reply
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I would prefer a tree over a linked list, as there can be multiple hierarchy of sub-section inside.

- Loony July 19, 2010 | Flag
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I was asked how to read a book of billion pages such that we can determine which word occurs in which pages. I tried a multimap<word-string,pagenum-int>.
Is there someway this can be done more efficiently?

- desi July 22, 2010 | Flag Reply
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I would prefer Hashmap with page number as the Key. So, Searching will be easy as Hash is automatically implemented.

- Karthik December 14, 2010 | Flag Reply


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