Google Interview Challenge

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https://hackernoon.com/14-patterns-to-ace-any-coding-interview-question-c5bb3357f6ed

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yRCOJ8KysRVkq0O9IlDriT01tC6lzPapmFO4PCmDJQA/edit#gid=126913158 Google面試準備 刷題類型

• Arrays
• Binary Search Tree
• Binary Tree
• Dynamic Programming
• Greedy
• Graph – BFS、DFS
• Heap
• LinkedList
• Recursion
• Searching – Binary Search、Quick Select
• Stack
• String
• Sorting
• Topological sorting
• Trie

Google面試經典題目

• coin change
• coin change 2
• Unique path
• Unique path 2
• Permutation
• Permutation 2
• subset
• subset 2
• search in rotated sorted array
• search in rotated sorted array 2
• word break
• word break 2
• jump game
• jump game 2
• word search
• word search 2
• combination
• combination 2
• meeting room
• meeting room 2
• number of islands
• number of islands 2
• number of distinct island
• number of distinct island 2

BQ準備 Imagine you worked in a project or a team that had a problematic culture Tell about the leading experience of a group project Thinking about a time you were given a large amount of work to complete under the tight deadline Tell about a time you face a problem without having clear solution How do you solve the conflict that happen in the team

Blind 75

Array

• Two Sum
• Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock
• Contains Duplicate
• Product of Array Except Self (M)
• Maximum Subarray
• Maximum Product Subarray
• Find Minimum in Rotated Sorted Array (M)
• Search in Rotated Sorted Array
• 3 Sum
• Container With Most Water

Binary

• Sum of Two Integers
• Number of 1 Bits
• Counting Bits
• Missing Number
• Reverse Bits

Dynamic Programming

• Climbing Stairs
• Coin Change
• Longest Increasing Subsequence
• Longest Common Subsequence
• Word Break Problem
• Combination Sum
• House Robber
• House Robber II
• Decode Ways
• Unique Paths
• Jump Game

Graph

• Clone Graph
• Course Schedule
• Pacific Atlantic Water Flow (M)
• Number of Islands
• Longest Consecutive Sequence (M)
• Alien Dictionary (Leetcode Premium) (H) Key: directed graph + DFS or BFS
• Graph Valid Tree (Leetcode Premium) (M) Key: Check edges number first and then check unconnected component (Graph theory), Union Find!
• Number of Connected Components in an Undirected Graph (Leetcode Premium) (M)

Interval

• Insert Interval
• Merge Intervals
• Non-overlapping Intervals (M) Key: greedy
• Meeting Rooms (Leetcode Premium)
• Meeting Rooms II (Leetcode Premium)

Linked List

• Reverse a Linked List
• Detect Cycle in a Linked List
• Merge Two Sorted Lists
• Merge K Sorted Lists
• Remove Nth Node From End Of List
• Reorder List (M)

Matrix

• Set Matrix Zeroes
• Spiral Matrix
• Rotate Image
• Word Search

String

• Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters
• Longest Repeating Character Replacement
• Minimum Window Substring (H) Key: Optimized Sliding Windows!
• Valid Anagram
• Group Anagrams
• Valid Parentheses
• Valid Palindrome
• Longest Palindromic Substring Key: Manacher’s Algorithm
• Palindromic Substrings (M) Key: Manacher’s Algorithm
• Encode and Decode Strings (Leetcode Premium) (M)

Tree

• Maximum Depth of Binary Tree
• Same Tree
• Invert/Flip Binary Tree
• Binary Tree Maximum Path Sum (H)
• Binary Tree Level Order Traversal (M)
• Serialize and Deserialize Binary Tree (H)
• Subtree of Another Tree
• Construct Binary Tree from Preorder and Inorder Traversal (M)
• Validate Binary Search Tree
• Kth Smallest Element in a BST (M)
• Lowest Common Ancestor of BST
• Implement Trie (Prefix Tree) (M)
• Add and Search Word (M)
• Word Search II

Heap

• Merge K Sorted Lists
• Top K Frequent Elements (M)
• Find Median from Data Stream (H)

Tips

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Funny One

• Count Unique Characters of All Substrings of a Given String Key: really special solution
• Find the Duplicate Number
• Find Leaves of Binary Tree
• Split Array Largest Sum Key: Binary Search!!!
• Trapping Rain Water
• The Skyline Problem Key: Select the building with heapqueue
• Largest Rectangle in Histogram Key: tricky Apply with stack!!!
• Subtree of Another Tree Key: Markle Hash
• Substring with Concatenation of All Words Key: Sliding Window
• Longest Valid Parentheses key: Two pointer or DP or Stack
• Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock IV Key: Tricky One pass solution (DP or O(k) space)
• Design HashSet Key: Multiplicative hashing
• Unique Binary Search Trees Key: Catalan number!
• Shortest Path in a Grid with Obstacles Elimination Key: BFS + A*
• Student Attendance Record II Key: hardhard DP
• Guess the Word Key: Game theroy, compare with previous
• Min Cost to Connect All Points Key: minmun spanning tree!! (Prim’s or )
• Path With Minimum Effort Key: Binary search space
• 132 Pattern Key: stack+min array