Uber Interview Question for Backend Developers


Country: United States
Interview Type: In-Person




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Simply use a K-D tree using long and lang as 2 dimensions of each node and build a K-D tree based on long, lat of all cabs and search the position of user in the K-D tree and while searching check if euclid dist(user,cab) <=R.

Updation: O(logn)/ O(d)
Search: O(logn)/ O(d)
d->max depth of K-D tree.
n->current number of cabs.

A more refined solution will be to create a grid for the location by maintaining a K-D tree with a threshold depth and group cabs according to criteria then simply search with user's location and assign valid groups.

- rexwulf October 08, 2018 | Flag Reply
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We can use an 2-d array as a Data structure. (By assuming all the cabs are discretely present inside a cell).
We can always calculate the distance from the focal point, from which the cab is called.

- SRC June 11, 2018 | Flag Reply
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But in this case u need to calculate distances for all cab points from the focal point, we need to do this more efficiently.

- ANONU June 11, 2018 | Flag Reply
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use geohash, and tries on that . we can find the nearest cabs which are following under same parent.

- gopi.komanduri June 12, 2018 | Flag Reply
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Basically they wanted me to implement geohash. Any hints how to go abt that?

- ANONU June 13, 2018 | Flag Reply
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Quadtrees ? In case it was from a design perspective

- Pranjal June 14, 2018 | Flag Reply
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Quadtrees ? In case it was from a design perspective

- Pranjal June 14, 2018 | Flag Reply
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Quadtrees ? In case it was from a design perspective

- pj.thegame June 14, 2018 | Flag Reply
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Maintain a grid of latitude and longitude of some particular length and set of cabs in each grid element.

So if a cab moves from one grid to another. You can update the grid sets in O(1) time.

When a user at position(uLat,uLong) queries for cabs within a radius r, we will process all grid elements between (uLat-r) to (uLat+r) and (uLong-r) to (uLong+r). For every cab in such grid element, we check whether they are at a distance r from the user. This takes O(total no. of cabs considered) or O(total no. of grids considered) time.

- yakkala July 27, 2018 | Flag Reply
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You can use BFS. start from source node and mark distance as 0. If any point in time if distance of node exceeds radius. then return back.

- Anonymous August 21, 2018 | Flag Reply
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Consider if need to calculate the distances between coordinates, to be efficient hash can easily avoid recalculating the distances of two coordinates.

- Anonymous September 13, 2018 | Flag Reply


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