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      Associate Developer Intern Interview

      Oct 6, 2023
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Montreal, QC
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Difficult interview

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      I applied online. I interviewed at IBM (Montreal, QC) in Oct 2023

      Interview

      It was a HackerRank assessment with one programming question in any desired language and one SQL query question. The first question was about finding the minimum cost of a list, the second was about getting the desired result of an SQL query.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Given an array of n positive integers, assuming 0-based indexing, its cost is the sum from i=1 to i=(len(arr) - 1) of (arr[i] - arr[i-1])^2. We want to find the minimum possible cost of the array after inserting exactly one element. For example, the cost of the array a = [1, 3, 5, 2, 10] before insertion is (1 - 3)^2 + (3 - 5)^2 + (5 - 2)^2 + (2 - 10)^2 = 81. After inserting 6 between 2 and 10, the cost of the array a is (1 - 3)^2 + (3 - 5)^2 + (5 - 2)^2 + (2 - 6)^2 + (6 - 10)^2 = 49. It can be proven that 49 is the minimum possible cost for the array a. Complete the function public static long getMinimumCost(List arr) to solve this problem.
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