Flipkart SDE1 Interview Guide
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Given a stock price array, find the maximum profit you can make with at most two buy-sell transactions. Discuss the DP state and how it generalizes to k transactions.
Implement a LRU (Least Recently Used) cache with O(1) get and put operations. Explain the HashMap + doubly linked list approach and why a simple array or single HashMap is insufficient.
Given a directed graph representing category hierarchies in an e-commerce catalog, find the shortest path between two categories. Explain BFS vs Dijkstra for unweighted vs weighted graphs.