Interview questions

Minimum Absolute Difference Between Two Values

Companies: Snowflake

Array · Enumeration

Minimum Absolute Distance Between Mirror Pairs

Companies: Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft

Array · Hash Table · Math

Minimum Bitwise OR From Grid

Companies: Google

Array · Bit Manipulation · Greedy · Matrix

Minimum Cost Path with Alternating Directions III

Companies: Meta

Array · Graph Theory · Heap (Priority Queue) · Matrix

Minimum Cost Path With At Most K Turns

Companies: Amazon

Array · Graph Theory · Heap · Matrix

Minimum Cost to Buy Apples II

Companies: Amazon

Array · Graph Theory · Heap (Priority Queue) · Shortest Path

Minimum Cost to Convert String III

Companies: Amazon

Array · Dynamic Programming · String

Minimum Cost to Equalize Arrays Using Swaps

Companies: Uber

Array · Counting · Greedy · Hash Table

Minimum Cost to Hire K Workers

Choose k workers and pay each proportional to quality while meeting their minimum wages; the group's cost equals (sum of selected qualities) * max(wage[i]/quality[i]) among…

Companies: Apple

Array · Greedy · Heap (Priority Queue) · Sorting

Minimum Cost to Move Between Indices

Companies: Visa

Array · Greedy · Prefix Sum

Minimum Difficulty of a Job Schedule

Partition the ordered list of jobs into d contiguous days (at least one job per day) to minimize the sum of daily difficulties, where each…

Companies: Atlassian, Microsoft

Array · Dynamic Programming

Minimum Distance Between Three Equal Elements I

Companies: Amazon, Google

Array · Hash Table

Minimum Distance Between Three Equal Elements II

Companies: Amazon, Google, Microsoft

Array · Hash Table

Minimum Increase to Maximize Special Indices

Companies: LinkedIn

Array · Dynamic Programming · Greedy · Prefix Sum

Minimum K to Reduce Array Within Limit

Companies: Google

Array · Binary Search

Minimum Moves to Balance Circular Array

Companies: Bloomberg

Array · Greedy · Sorting

Minimum Moves to Equal Array Elements III

Companies: Adobe

Array · Math

Minimum Number of Operations to Have Distinct Elements

Companies: Accenture

Array · Hash Table

Minimum Number of Refueling Stops

Given a target distance, initial fuel, and stations at positions with fuel amounts, determine the minimum number of refueling stops needed to reach the target…

Companies: D. E. Shaw, Uber, Waymo

Array · Dynamic Programming · Greedy · Heap (Priority Queue)

Minimum Operations to Halve Array Sum

Given an array of positive integers where an operation halves any chosen element, find the minimum number of operations to reduce the total sum by…

Companies: Nutanix

Array · Greedy · Heap (Priority Queue)

Minimum Operations to Make Array Non Decreasing

Companies: Amazon

Array · Greedy

Minimum Operations to Make Binary Palindrome

Companies: Teradata

Array · Binary Search · Bit Manipulation · Two Pointers