Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters Mock Interview

  1. Problem
  2. 2Clarifying Questions
  3. 3Constraints
  4. 4Brute Force
  5. 5Complexity Analysis
  6. 6Pattern Recognition
  7. 7Optimized Solution
  8. 8Implementation
  9. 9Testing
  10. 10Follow-Up
  11. 11Evaluation
Problem

Given a string s, return the length of the longest substring that contains no repeated characters. A substring is contiguous; characters are compared exactly (case-sensitive).

Constraints
  • 0 ≤ s.length ≤ 5·10^4
  • s consists of printable ASCII characters (or Unicode — clarify)
Example
in: s = "abcabcbb"
out: 3

Clarify

Before choosing anything: what would you ask the interviewer? What assumptions are you making? (Duplicates? Empty input? Value ranges? What to return when there is no answer?)