Amazon Interview Question for SDE1s


Country: India
Interview Type: In-Person




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I assume by infinitely large you mean an array that does not fit in memory otherwise your program will never terminate obviously. If that's the case this sounds like a simple problem
* Create k files (k - number of tags)
* Read the input array by blocks that fit in memory
* If an element in the block has tag i add it to i-th file
* When you are done processing the array, just traverse your files in order

- adr June 10, 2018 | Flag Reply
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Let left =0 and right =arr.length()-1;
traverse the array and do
//move left pointer from left to right.

if(arr[left].tag==1){
	//move the right pointer(from right to left) until a tag 0 is encountered
	//and swap the values at left and right.
}

- Anonymous June 12, 2018 | Flag Reply
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I think
An array can't have infinite size as it have maximum size of integer

- Rishi June 12, 2018 | Flag Reply
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1. Initialize a hash table for with tag as key and ArrayList of elements as value.
2. loop through the array int[] a; if the tag doesn't exist add the tag and add a[i] to its ArrayList; if the tag already exists in the hash table, add a[i] to the ArrayList.
3. After the loop is done, now loop through the Hash Table and print all the tags and its ArrayList contents in the order.

- Varun Erra June 19, 2018 | Flag Reply
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Start reading the elements one by one, insert tag 0 elements from the begining of the array and tag 1 from the end. This sort can be perform in-place to receive the best memory and space performance.

- Nooreddin June 20, 2018 | Flag Reply


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