Sorting and Searching
Sample questions
- Sorting search results on a page given a certain set of criteria.
- Sort a list of numbers in which each number is at a distance
Kfrom its actual position. - Given an array of integers, sort the array so that all odd indexes are greater than the even indexes.
- Given users with locations in a list and a logged-in user with locations, find their travel buddies (people who shared more than half of your locations).
- Search for an element in a sorted and rotated array.
- Sort a list where each element is no more than k positions away from its sorted position.
- Merge two sorted lists together.
- Give 3 distinct algorithms to find the K largest values in a list of N items.
- Find the minimum element in a sorted rotated array in faster than O(n) time.
- Write a function that takes a number as input and outputs the biggest number with the same set of digits.