Amazon Interview Question for SDE-2s


Country: United States
Interview Type: In-Person




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package com.home.careercup;

/*
To support age range query - parse all records and maintain age counts
in array where a [i] = c if there are c people of age i in input.
For a query with age range [q,r], we can now sum up values 
 a[q], a[q+1] .. a[r-1], a[r].
It is a good idea to curate the input age range before applying to the
array.
 */
public class AgeRangeQuery {

    static int MAX_AGE=99;
    static int[] ageData = new int[MAX_AGE +1];

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Person[] persons = megaParse();

        for (Person p : persons) {
            if (p.age < 100) ageData[p.age]++;
        }
        int ranges[][] = new int[][]{
                {11, 44},
                {33, 55},
                {71, 81},
                {91, 100},
                {98, 100}
        };
        for ( int [] range: ranges){
            System.out.println(rangeCount(range [0], range [1]));
        }
    }

    static  int rangeCount(int age1, int age2) {
        int low, high;
        if (age1 <= age2) {
            low = age1;
            high = age2;
        } else {
            low = age2;
            high = age1;
        }
        // finally adjust ranges
        low = ( low <0) ? 0: low;
        high = (high> MAX_AGE) ? MAX_AGE: high;
        int result = 0;
        for (int i = low; i <= high; i++) result += ageData[i];
        return result;

    }

    private static Person[] megaParse() {
        return new Person[]{
                new Person(1), new Person(2), new Person(9),
                new Person(11), new Person(12),
                new Person(33), new Person(44),
                new Person(55),
                new Person(60),
                new Person(71),
                new Person(81),
                new Person(91) //etc
        };
    }

    static class Person {
        public Person(int age) {
            this.age = age;
        }

        String name;
        int age;
        // etc
    }
}

- Makarand August 30, 2017 | Flag Reply
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Store the number the people in an array of long ages[]=new long[150], assuming 150 of max age.For each incoming age, we can update corresponding index and increment by 1.

We can actually leverage segment tree here for better performance.

- koustav.adorable August 30, 2017 | Flag Reply


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