EFI Interview Question for Software Engineers


Country: India
Interview Type: In-Person




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Reverse all the indexes, similar to a palindrome...this array of numbers will only be the same after the reshuffle if it was a palindrome which, given a random array of sufficient length _k_ seems highly improbable:

[1, 2, 3] => [3, 2, 1]

- srterpe December 20, 2016 | Flag Reply
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Very imprecise formulation of the problem. We can simply rotate the array. Then, the resulting configuration would change each elements position in the array. But I guess the interviewer was looking for : [ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher–Yates_shuffle ]

- NoOne December 21, 2016 | Flag Reply


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