Yahoo Interview Question for Software Engineer / Developers






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~ read the document - O(n)
~ maintain a hashmap, and hash the strings as keys with initial count of 1 if the current term isnt present else increment the bucket count by 1 - O(1)
~ sort the map by values - O(n log n)

- son_of_a_thread August 03, 2011 | Flag Reply
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Our map should be of the form <word, pair<count, pointer>>. This pointer should be an index to a heap structure of size k (5 here). We should maintain a min - heap, every time the count of a word is greater than root of the heap we remove the minimum count seen and replace it with the current value and max-heapify. Cost of max-heapify is lg k. Even if we have to max-heapify after reading every word, the complexity will come out to be O(n lg k) whereas in case of sorting it'd be O (n lg n).

- Second Attempt February 17, 2013 | Flag
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the min-heap is a really smart way. the map is just use to store the counts of the word appear

- brady May 01, 2013 | Flag
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1)read the document and build a tree of words with its count
2)the bst should contain words in lexicographical ordering
3)increment each count of the word if it is fount in the tree otherwise add it in the tree
4)sort this tree.

- Anonymous June 23, 2011 | Flag Reply
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novel approach but building a tree and searching for the contents of the tree takes O(log n) time.. hashing is preferable? Insertion and searching takes O(1)

- son_of_a_thread August 03, 2011 | Flag
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Hashing aint the sol for everything. Could you imagine the space complexity behind hashing.

- anshulzunke September 17, 2011 | Flag
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use trie and maintain count at the end of words

- keshav January 06, 2013 | Flag Reply


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