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DE Shaw interview practice
108 coding questions are known to come up in DE Shaw interviews (14 easy, 64 medium, 30 hard), 15 of them in the last six months. The most common topics are Array, Dynamic Programming, String, Hash Table.
108Known questions
15Asked in last 6 months
64Medium
30Hard
Coding questions DE Shaw asks
From public company-tagged interview question lists. Most recent and most frequent first.
Easy 14Medium 64Hard 30
- Array74
- Dynamic Programming32
- String29
- Hash Table22
- Greedy20
- Sorting20
- Binary Search17
- Two Pointers16
- Stack14
- Heap (Priority Queue)12
- Math9
- Matrix9
| Question | Difficulty | Asked recently |
|---|---|---|
| Binary Tree Cameras | Hard | Yes |
| Minimum Number of Refueling Stops | Hard | Yes |
| Sliding Window Maximum | Hard | Yes |
| Reorganize String | Medium | Yes |
| Count Binary Substrings | Easy | Yes |
| Furthest Building You Can Reach | Medium | Yes |
| Asteroid Collision | Medium | Yes |
| Longest Repeating Character Replacement | Medium | Yes |
| Maximum Product Subarray | Medium | Yes |
| Median of Two Sorted Arrays | Hard | Yes |
| K-th Symbol in Grammar | Medium | Yes |
| Count Vowel Substrings of a String | Easy | Yes |
| Shortest Path in a Grid with Obstacles Elimination | Hard | Yes |
| Max Consecutive Ones III | Medium | Yes |
| Find Median from Data Stream | Hard | Yes |
| Minimum Number of Taps to Open to Water a Garden | Hard | — |
| Minimum Size Subarray in Infinite Array | Medium | — |
| Maximum Points Tourist Can Earn | Medium | — |
| Maximum Points After Collecting Coins From All Nodes | Hard | — |
| Maximum Subsequence Score | Medium | — |
| Letter Combinations of a Phone Number | Medium | — |
| Number of Subarrays With AND Value of K | Hard | — |
| Minimum Cost Walk in Weighted Graph | Hard | — |
| Removing Minimum Number of Magic Beans | Medium | — |
| Sum Game | Medium | — |
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