Ebay Interview Question for Software Engineer / Developers


Team: Traffic
Country: United States
Interview Type: In-Person




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Build a complete graph of all the symbols of the periodic table. Let the graph have n nodes in total. Do DFS for all of the n nodes in the graph and at each step check for the validity of the word traversed so far by looking up in the given dictionary.

- Murali Mohan January 08, 2014 | Flag Reply
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With or without repetitions? Can a symbol say Fe(Iron) appear twice in the longest word returned?

- hmm January 08, 2014 | Flag Reply
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void Print(Vector<string>& elements, Lexicon& lex, string soFar) {
if (!lex.containsPrefix(soFar)) return;
if (lex.containsWord(soFar) && soFar.length() > 10) {
cout << soFar << endl; }
for (int i = 0; i < elements.size(); i++) { Print(elements, lex, soFar + elements[i]);
} }
void PrintAllWords(Vector<string>& elements, Lexicon& lex) {
Print(elements, lex, ""); }

- helper January 10, 2014 | Flag Reply
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Fixing some space issue.

void Print(Vector<string>& elements, Lexicon& lex, string soFar) {
	if (!lex.containsPrefix(soFar)) return;
	
	if (lex.containsWord(soFar) && soFar.length() > 10) {
		cout << soFar << endl; 
	}
	for (int i = 0; i < elements.size(); i++) { 
		Print(elements, lex, soFar + elements[i]);
  } 
}

void PrintAllWords(Vector<string>& elements, Lexicon& lex) {
  Print(elements, lex, ""); 
}

- helper January 10, 2014 | Flag Reply


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