2022 April Internal Interview Prepare

 

General

Senior Engineer Jobsearch

Big-O Cheat Sheet

Algorithm

  • Ask clarifying questions
  • Come up with an approach, without writing any code yet
  • Validate the approach with the recruiter
  • Implement the solution with code
  • Demonstrate correctness by running through test cases

Data Structure

  • String
    • represents characters in aother data scture, e.g. hashtable, bit map
    • sliding window
  • Linked List
    • fast-slow pointers
    • dummy nodes
    • doubly linked list (LRU, LFU)
  • Queue (FIFO)
    • ArrayDequeue, LinkedList
    • methods: offer(), poll(), peek()
  • Stack (FILO)
    • methods: push(), pop(), peek()
    • monotonic stack
  • Heap
    • compelete binary tree in array (i -> 2i, 2i+1)
    • heapify: Log(n)
    • topK problem
  • Tree
    • binary search tree
    • inorder (stack / recursion), preorder, postorder
  • Hash Tables
    • open address: liner probing, rehash
    • close address: chain
  • Graph
    • dfs: recurision
    • bfs: queue
    • toplogical sort
  • Searching
    • binary search: log(n)
  • Sorting
  • Recursion
    • back tracking: condition to add result, move back

Videos

Data Structure (C++)- mycodeschool

MIT6.006 Introduction to Algorithm, Spring 2020

MIT6.006 Introduction to Algorith, Fall 2011

System Design

  • Not Dos (Restriction & Assumption)
  • Functional Spec
  • Technical Spec
  • Related Problems

Data Volumn Estimations

bit, byte, kb, mb, gb, tb

My SQL

Type Size
INT 4 Byte
BIGINT 8 Byte
FLOAT 4 Byte
DOUBLE 8 Byte
DATE 3 Byte
DATETIME 8 Byte
TEXT string length + 2 Bytes

Java

Type Size
int 4 Byte
long 8 Byte
fload 4 Byte
double 8 Byte
char 2 Byte

Scalability Web Development

Components

  • DNS
  • Load Balancer
  • Distributed Cache:
    • Write around, Write back, Write through
    • LRU (HashMap + Doubly Linked List), LFU (3 HashMaps w Doubly Linked List)
    • Consistent Hashing
  • Distributed DB:
    • Relational: B tree
    • None Relational: LSM (log structured merge tree)
    • Sharding
    • Replication
  • CDN
  • Multi AZ

Offers

  • L5 AWS Route53
  • L5 AWS OpenSearch