dezerv Backend Developer Interview Questions and Answers

My name is John Doe.

• My name is John Doe.

• I go by the name John Doe.

• You can call me John Doe.

I'm sorry, I don't understand the question. Could you please clarify?

• Please provide more context or information about the class you are referring to.

• Are you asking about a specific programming language or framework?

• Without more information, I cannot provide a meaningful answer.

The question is unrelated to the job position and personal information.

• The question is not relevant to the job role of a Backend Developer.

• It is inappropriate to ask about personal information like siblings in a professional interview.

• The answer to this question is not applicable and should be avoided.

• Focus on discussing relevant technical skills and experience instead.

Minimum cost to reach last cell of 2D matrix with only downward or right moves.

• Use dynamic programming approach to solve the problem.

• Calculate minimum cost for each cell by considering minimum cost of its adjacent cells.

• Final answer will be the minimum cost to reach the last cell.

Design a stack that supports getMin functionality to return the minimum element in the stack.

• Create two stacks, one for storing the actual elements and another for storing the minimum elements.

• Push elements onto both stacks simultaneously.

• When popping an element, pop from both stacks.

• To get the minimum element, peek at the top of the minimum stack.

TreeSet is a data structure that stores unique elements in sorted order.

• TreeSet is implemented using a Red-Black tree

• It provides O(log n) time complexity for basic operations like add, remove, and contains

• It also provides methods like first(), last(), headSet(), tailSet(), and subSet()

• TreeSet can be used to implement priority queues and sorting algorithms

Design an ArrayList with getMax functionality.

• Create a custom ArrayList class that extends the existing ArrayList class.

• Add a getMax() method that returns the maximum value in the list.

• Override the add() method to keep track of the maximum value in the list.

• Update the maximum value whenever an element is added or removed from the list.