Bloomberg LP Interview Question for Software Engineer / Developers


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I assume it's a level order traversal where you build two sums, one of even levels and one of odd. levels
I used a nullptr as a marker element to seperate levels in the queue, tiny trick is to ensure the termination
works.

int maxLevelSum(Node *root) 
{
	queue<Node*> q;
	q.push(root);
	q.push(nullptr);
	int level = 0;
	int sums[2]{0, 0};
	while(q.size() > 0)
	{
		Node *current = q.front(); q.pop();
		if(current == nullptr) 
		{ 
			level ^= 1;
			if(q.size() > 0) q.push(nullptr);
			continue;
		}
		sums[level] += current->value;
		if(current->left != nullptr) q.push(current->left);
		if(current->right != nullptr) q.push(current->right);
	}
	return max(sums[0], sums[1]);
}

- Chris December 14, 2016 | Flag Reply
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Use spiral level order traversal technique.
Take two sum varialbe oddSum and evenSum and two stacks s1 and s2.
Take one boolean variable evenLevel.

java code is below:

public int maxAmountRob(BTNode<T> node) {
		if (node == null) {
			return;
		}

		Stack<BTNode<T>> stack1 = new Stack<>();
		Stack<BTNode<T>> stack2 = new Stack<>();
		stack2.push(node);
		boolean levelFlag = false;
                int oddSum=0;
                int evenSum=0;
		while (!(stack1.isEmpty() && stack2.isEmpty())) {
			BTNode<T> currentNode;
			if (levelFlag) {
				while (!stack1.isEmpty()) {
					currentNode= stack1.pop();
					oddSum+=currentNode.getData();
					if(currentNode.getLeft() != null){
						stack2.push(currentNode.getLeft());
					}
					if(currentNode.getRight() != null){
						stack2.push(currentNode.getRight());
					}
					
				}

				levelFlag = false;
			} else {
				while (!stack2.isEmpty()) {
					currentNode= stack2.pop();
					evenSum+=currentNode.getData();
					if(currentNode.getRight() != null){
						stack1.push(currentNode.getRight());
					}
					if(currentNode.getLeft() != null){
						stack1.push(currentNode.getLeft());
					}
					
					
				}

				levelFlag = true;
			}

		}
        return Math.max(oddSum,evenSum);

}

- Avinash Kumar December 14, 2016 | Flag Reply
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I used normal post-order traversal with a method parameter indicating the level.

public static int maxLevelSum(TreeNode root){
		int[] sums = getSums(root, 0);
		return Math.max(sums[0], sums[1]);
	}


	public static int[] getSums(TreeNode node, int level){
		int[] res1 = new int[2];
		int[] res2 = new int[2];
		if (node.left != null)
			res1 = getSums(node.left, level+1);
		if (node.right != null)
			res2 = getSums(node.right, level+1);
		if (level %2 ==0){
			return new int[]{res1[0]+res2[0], res1[1]+res2[1]+ node.val};
		}
		else{
			return new int[]{res1[0]+res2[0] + node.val, res1[1]+res2[1]};
		}

- Vidhya December 31, 2016 | Flag Reply
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Python Solution:
def maxLevelSum(root,EvenOrOdd,sumation):
if root == None:
return max(sumation[0],sumation[1])
else:
if EvenOrOdd == True:
sumation[0] += root.val

else:
sumation[1]+= root.val

maxLevelSum(root.left,not EvenOrOdd,sumation)
maxLevelSum(root.right,not EvenOrOdd,sumation)
return max(sumation[0],sumation[1])

print(maxLevelSum(tr,True,[0,0]))

- ketaki November 27, 2017 | Flag Reply
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{{
def maxLevelSum(root,EvenOrOdd,sumation):
if root == None:
return max(sumation[0],sumation[1])
else:
if EvenOrOdd == True:
sumation[0] += root.val

else:
sumation[1]+= root.val

maxLevelSum(root.left,not EvenOrOdd,sumation)
maxLevelSum(root.right,not EvenOrOdd,sumation)
return max(sumation[0],sumation[1])

print(maxLevelSum(root,True,[0,0]))
}}

- Anonymous November 27, 2017 | Flag Reply
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def maxLevelSum(root,EvenOrOdd,sumation):
if root == None:
return max(sumation[0],sumation[1])
else:
if EvenOrOdd == True:
sumation[0] += root.val
else:
sumation[1]+= root.val
maxLevelSum(root.left,not EvenOrOdd,sumation)
maxLevelSum(root.right,not EvenOrOdd,sumation)

return max(sumation[0],sumation[1])

- keta.thatte November 27, 2017 | Flag Reply


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