Amazon interview question

You are to write a spell checker. Discuss the API, Data Structures and Algorithms.

Interview Answers

Anonymous

28 Apr 2009

Did not know the answer but worked through the answer interactively with the interviewer. This was during a phone interview. Did not get the full solution, but still got accepted for the site visit.

Anonymous

10 Jun 2009

two parallel approaches are needed: sounds like (mapping) single typo (search by character)