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Google L4 phone interview

Round 1

Questions: You are given an undirected and unweighted graph of uppercase nodes. Alice is at A and Bob is at B. Both need to reach D.
Both can go in the same car from a common edge.
Compute the minimum distinct edges required for Bob and Alice to reach D.

A -- F | \\\ C -- E --D | B -- G -- H

Answer: 4
Paths:

Candidate's Approach

The candidate identified the paths that Alice and Bob could take to reach D while minimizing the number of distinct edges used. They recognized that both could share the path from C to E to D, thus reducing the total distinct edges required.

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