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The question was: Given a text written in some language where the alphabets are represented with 1 byte or 2 byte. But the one byte alphabets always have their MSB 1 and the 2 byte charecters always have their MSB 0. Now when at some point user presses a back space how many bytes are to be deleted to erase the alphabet?
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Software Development Engineer

Interviewed at Microsoft

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Aug 25, 2016

The question was: Given a text written in some language where the alphabets are represented with 1 byte or 2 byte. But the one byte alphabets always have their MSB 1 and the 2 byte charecters always have their MSB 0. Now when at some point user presses a back space how many bytes are to be deleted to erase the alphabet?

Given a linked list with three fields: a data field, a next field and a random pointer field (which is a field that points to null or to an element in the linked list) write a function to return a copy of the linked list without destructively modifying the original linked list
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Software Development Engineering Intern

Interviewed at Microsoft

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Dec 18, 2014

Given a linked list with three fields: a data field, a next field and a random pointer field (which is a field that points to null or to an element in the linked list) write a function to return a copy of the linked list without destructively modifying the original linked list

You've a singly linked list where every node in the list has a field "random" which points to other node in the same list. Write a function to clone this list (create a new copy of the same). Don't use extra space (just the pointer variables are fine).
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Software Development Engineer I

Interviewed at Microsoft

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Aug 17, 2012

You've a singly linked list where every node in the list has a field "random" which points to other node in the same list. Write a function to clone this list (create a new copy of the same). Don't use extra space (just the pointer variables are fine).

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