Microsoft Software Development Engineer Interview Questions(sde)

Microsoft Software Development Engineer Interview Questions(sde)

• You're given an array containing both positive and negative integers and required to find the sub-array with the largest sum (O(N) a la KBL). Write a routine in C for the above.
• Given an array of size N in which every number is between 1 and N, determine if there are any duplicates in it. You are allowed to destroy the array if you like. [ I ended up giving about 4 or 5 different solutions for this, each supposedly better than the others ].
• Write a routine to draw a circle (x ** 2 + y ** 2 = r ** 2) without making use of any floating point computations at all.
• Given only putchar (no sprintf, itoa, etc.) write a routine putlong that prints out an unsigned long in decimal.
• Give a one-line C expression to test whether a number is a power of 2. No loops allowed.
• Given an array of characters which form a sentence of words, give an efficient algorithm to reverse the order of the words (not characters) in it.
• Give a good method to count the number of ones in a "n" (e.g. 32) bit number.
• What are the different ways to implement a condition where the value of x can be either a 0 or a 1?
• Reverse a linked list.
• Insert in a sorted list.