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Questions to ask before you start coding during a technical interview

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  • Size of the input? Range of values? Recursion stack issues.
  • Is the input valid?
  • How should the algorithm behave for corner cases?
  • Can I mutate the input? Generally a bad practice, but may be okay for the interview.
  • Is it ok to sort/manipulate the input data? Or do I need to preserve them? (similar with above)
  • Do I have negative numbers, floating points, duplicates, empty inputs?
  • What are some extreme cases of the input?
  • How is the input stored? If you are given a bunch values, is it an array or a generator? If you are given a dictionary of words, is it a list of strings or a trie?

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