Amazon & Apple Interview Problem

Key Takeaways

this coding problem was asked by Amazon Microsoft and Apple let's see if you can solve it you're given an array of numbers you need to find the subarray with the largest sum and return the sum for example in this array the subarray containing 4 -1 2 1 has the largest sum which is six pause the video to think before I give you the answer to solve this problem we can use kadan's algorithm it's a dynamic programming approach where we keep track of the maximum sum subarray ending at each index in the array if the maximum sum of the subarray ending at current index minus one is negative we should start a new subarray at current index otherwise we should extend the maximum sum subarray ending at current index minus one the overall maximum sum subarray will be the maximum of all the maximum sum subarrays ending at each index the time complexity of this solution is order n if you want to get a weekly coding problem asked by top tech companies in your email you can sign up for my free email newsletter at interview.io