Microsoft Interview Question for SDE-2s


Country: United States
Interview Type: In-Person




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Can a city have multiple paths to different cities or just one path to a city? I would assume based on the question it only has one path, else we need more information because if city1 goes to city3, and city2 goes to city1 and city3, then how do we know which path user chooses to get to city3 from city2, since it can be (city2->city1->city3) or (city2->city3)?

With that said I think the question basically describes a directed graph with only one outgoing edge and multiple incoming edges and no cycle.

If the above assumptions are correct then we basically have visit each node and its children summing up the incoming people count.

- Assume a node has three property: {city:String, nPeople:Integer, totalVisitor: Integer}

- for each node in tree
 - currentSum: node.nPeople
 - visitChildren( node, currentSum)


- visitChildren( node, currentSum )
 - var current = node;
 - while current != null
  - currentSum += current.nPeople;
  - current.totalVisitor += currentSum;
  - current.children.forEach child
   - visitChildren( child, currentSum );

- tnutty2k8 August 31, 2017 | Flag Reply
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foreach src_node in tree:
do_mod_dijkstra(src_node, dst_node);
// in our do_mod_dijkstra: hash[visited_node] += src_node.population;

You will have the result in hash[node]

- Daniel October 13, 2017 | Flag Reply


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