You are given a map of a road network with N intersections numbered from 0 to N – 1. There are M road segments, and each segment connects two intersecti…

We accidentally dropped the database where we store the current billing status for our advertisers. Fortunately, we still have the logs for all the tran…

Compression To reduce the size of messages transmitted over the internet, a compression algorithm encodes consecutive repeating characters in a string….

The fraud detection team at Stripe wants to assign a fraud score to each merchant using a sequence of transactions and per-transaction rules. You are gi…

def aggregate_store_events(events: list[dict]) -> dict : Aggregate a list of store events into a per-store health summary. Each event dict has: store…

Given 2 lists, find the common items in both lists. This problem asks you to find the common items shared by two lists. A standard solution is to store…

Problem Statement Given two strings A and B , return the 0-based starting index of the first contiguous substring in A that is a permutation (anagram) o…

You are building an in-memory, single-threaded analytics service for ChatGPT chat sessions. It ingests a real-time, globally non-decreasing stream of in…

Given a web page, we want to annotate text segments that may overlap. (One example is Google Docs, where you can highlight some text and add a comment.)…

Assume that Airbnb decided to enable search on user reviews. In order to make the search better, you need to tag specific words in the review. The searc…

Given an integer array nums of length n and an integer target , find three integers in nums such that the sum is closest to target . Return the sum of t…

Build a simple class that implements a basic in-memory service that: Records a song play event for a given song id Returns play counts for individual so…

An infected plant spreads infection to neighboring plants. If a plant is surrounded by D infected plants, it also becomes infected. How many days until…

You are given a matrix whose elements are initially set to 0 and a starting position (startRow, startCol) (0-based indexing). Fill the matrix with incre…

Build a reservation system for a predefined set of conference rooms given as a list of room IDs [roomA, roomB, …] . It should have a method like sched…

You have a dataset which contains examples labeled with different classes (single-label, multiple classes); for example, an animal image classification…

Social Network Implement follow , unfollow , snapshot , and is_following . The snapshot captures the current state of all relationships and returns an i…

We are designing a system for officers to check out a body worn camera from a pool of available cameras. We need an object to store a collection of came…

In this exercise, you will build your own version of a Domain Name System (DNS) resolver, the system your computer uses to translate a domain name into…

You are given a partially implemented algorithm for Extremely Randomized Trees , a decision-tree ensemble method introduced by Geurts et al. (2006). You…