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Given a string, write a function “recurring char” to find the strings first recurring character. Return “None” if there is no recurring character. Note: Treat upper and lower case letters as distinct characters. You may assume the input string includes no spaces. Example: input = "interviewquery" output = "i" input = "interv" output = "None"
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Data Engineer

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Aug 16, 2024

Given a string, write a function “recurring char” to find the strings first recurring character. Return “None” if there is no recurring character. Note: Treat upper and lower case letters as distinct characters. You may assume the input string includes no spaces. Example: input = "interviewquery" output = "i" input = "interv" output = "None"

First question was on palindromic strings of 0s and 1s that I spent too much time on, The second question was "simple" sliding window question on memory allocation. It's funny that I have been in long meetings to discuss this kind of logic, but somehow there was an expectation that I would code this on the spot. Yeah, I failed the tech hazing here. The system design questions were really well-made. I honestly had a lot of fun answering those. Lots of things about availability, architecture, and databases.
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Senior Data Engineer

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
May 26, 2022

First question was on palindromic strings of 0s and 1s that I spent too much time on, The second question was "simple" sliding window question on memory allocation. It's funny that I have been in long meetings to discuss this kind of logic, but somehow there was an expectation that I would code this on the spot. Yeah, I failed the tech hazing here. The system design questions were really well-made. I honestly had a lot of fun answering those. Lots of things about availability, architecture, and databases.

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