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Interview Question Bank

Data Engineer Coding medium

Given a list of nested integers, return the sum of all integers in the list weighted by their depth. For example, given the list {{1,1},2,{1,1}}, return 10.

#Depth-First Search #Recursion #Arrays
Data Engineer Coding easy

Given an array of strings representing words and two distinct words, find the shortest distance between these two words in the list.

#Arrays #Two Pointers
Data Engineer Coding medium

Write a function to find all LinkedIn connections of a specific user up to the Nth degree. You are given an API getConnections(userId) that returns a list of direct connections.

#Graphs #Breadth-First Search #Queues
Data Engineer Coding medium

Given an array of intervals representing active user sessions on LinkedIn, merge all overlapping intervals to find the total continuous active time.

#Sorting #Arrays #Intervals
Data Engineer Coding medium

Given a non-empty list of job search keywords and an integer K, return the K most frequent keywords. Sort the result by frequency from highest to lowest, and alphabetically for ties.

#Hash Table #Heap #Sorting
Data Engineer Coding medium

Given a binary tree representing a company's organizational chart, write a function to find the lowest common manager (Lowest Common Ancestor) of two given employees.

#Trees #Recursion #Depth-First Search
Data Engineer Coding medium

Implement an LRU (Least Recently Used) Cache. This is often used in data engineering to cache frequent database lookups.

#Data Structures #Hash Table #Linked List
Data Engineer Coding medium

Given an array of integers `nums` sorted in ascending order (with distinct values), and a target integer `target`, write a function to search `target` in `nums`. If `target` exists, then return its index. Otherwise, return -1. The array might be rotated at an unknown pivot.

#Binary Search #Arrays

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