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Maximum Subarray

Maximum Subarray is about turning repeated work into a reusable state instead of re-solving subproblems. Interviewers love it because it reveals your state-and-transition thinking and your edge-case discipline. Once you define the right state, the transitions usually write themselves.

Arrays & HashingBinary SearchDynamic Programming

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Arrays and Hashing Interview Questions

Arrays and hashing problems are about fast lookup choices: set for membership, map for attached state, and buckets when counts are bounded. Reach for this family when brute force compares too many pairs or when you need to remember what you saw earlier in one pass.

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