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Given a string of format '2+3*2-1', calculate and return the result. No parenthesis in the input, just integers and + - * / operators. Operator precedence has to be considered. Linear time complexity and minimal data structure use is preferred.
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Software Development Engineer I

Interviewed at Microsoft

4
Jan 4, 2013

Given a string of format '2+3*2-1', calculate and return the result. No parenthesis in the input, just integers and + - * / operators. Operator precedence has to be considered. Linear time complexity and minimal data structure use is preferred.

Implement the MyStack. (A lot of questions about multi-threading) @protocol Stack -(void)pushObject:(nonnull id)obj; -(nonnull id)popObjext; @property(nonatomic,assign)NSInteger count; @end @interface MyStack : NSObject <Stack> @end @implementation MyStack @end
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IOS Developer

Interviewed at Booking.com

4.1
Aug 26, 2016

Implement the MyStack. (A lot of questions about multi-threading) @protocol Stack -(void)pushObject:(nonnull id)obj; -(nonnull id)popObjext; @property(nonatomic,assign)NSInteger count; @end @interface MyStack : NSObject <Stack> @end @implementation MyStack @end

Imagine you have a string and you want to return False if there are repeat characters in this string, what are the fastest and most space efficient ways to do this. (I clarified and he only wanted to return False if there was a repeat letter or number)
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Software Development Engineer Intern

Interviewed at Microsoft

4
Nov 7, 2014

Imagine you have a string and you want to return False if there are repeat characters in this string, what are the fastest and most space efficient ways to do this. (I clarified and he only wanted to return False if there was a repeat letter or number)

There are 4 people who want to cross a bridge. They each take 1, 2, 5 and 8 minutes. Only 2 people can cross at a time and they take as long as the slowest person. What is the fastest time you can get everyone across? Then I was asked to write the mathematical equation to determine the trade-off point between each of the 2 approaches to solving this.
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Software Developer

Interviewed at Microsoft

4
May 2, 2011

There are 4 people who want to cross a bridge. They each take 1, 2, 5 and 8 minutes. Only 2 people can cross at a time and they take as long as the slowest person. What is the fastest time you can get everyone across? Then I was asked to write the mathematical equation to determine the trade-off point between each of the 2 approaches to solving this.

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