Netflix interview question

Implement atoi and itoa

Interview Answers

Anonymous

Sep 27, 2010

Seriously? They ask that for senior software engineer job? lame q.

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Anonymous

Sep 27, 2010

Yep (cuz i sat in that room, too)... over and over, same questions, like they all read the same book. Thing is they aren't doing that stuff day to day.... and the heavy heavy emphasis on "performance" is a little funny. These aren't space ships they're controlling, just transactions.

Anonymous

Oct 23, 2010

atoi: #include #include #include int main() { const char* s = "12345"; int sum = 0; int len = strlen(s); int multiplier = pow(10, len - 1); for (int i = 0;i < len;i++) { sum += (s[i] - '0') * multiplier; multiplier = multiplier / 10; } printf("%u\n", sum); }

Anonymous

Dec 14, 2010

int atoi(const char* s) { int sum = 0; for (char* x = s; x != ']0'; ++x) { sum = sum*10 + *x - '0'; } return sum; }

Anonymous

Dec 14, 2010

typo: for (char* x = s; *x != '\0'; ++x) {