We can store the employees as a list. Since each employee is managed by 1 boss, we can store the pointer to boss in the child. To calculate getCostToCompany(char* bossName), we can scan the list and look for those records where bossName matches those employees who have boss with <bossName>. This would bw O(n). To add a record, first we find the boss pointer and then insert the record at the end of the list using the boss pointer.
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 5:13 AM, Anand <anandut2...@gmail.com> wrote: > As per the problem it seems to be that there is one root node (CEO) and > all employees are child node. B'cos iin the question it is mentioned that > each employee is led by only 1 person except for the CEO (who has no boss). > > Correct me if I am wrong. > > > On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Gene <gene.ress...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> This is a nice question for them because the idea is simple, but they >> have given you a data structure that is not good for the problem. If >> each employee records had a list of people the employee leads, it >> would be trivially easy. But it doesn't. So in the interview you can >> show how smart you are by discussing the pros and cons of defining a >> parallel data structure (since you're apparently not allowed to change >> this one) to contain child pointers. Or computing all the costs in a >> single pass through the whole list of employees and updating these >> appropriately as employees are added, deleted, get raises, etc. >> >> >> On Jul 27, 7:57 am, aparichith <vineelyalamar...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > A company has many employees & each employee is led by only 1 person >> > except for the CEO (who has no boss). The cost to the company of an >> > employee is the sum of his salary plus the cost to the company of all >> > the people led by him. Given is the following structure : >> > >> > Employee >> > >> > Data members: >> > >> > Name >> > >> > Salary >> > >> > isBoss >> > >> > nameOfBoss >> > >> > Methods: >> > >> > getSalary >> > >> > getName >> > >> > a) Define the class/structure >> > >> > b) Write a function getCostToCompany() to calculate the cost to >> > the company of an employee whose name is passed as a parameter to the >> > function getCostToCompany() >> > >> > public float getCostToCompany(String name) >> > >> > Note: Don’t write any input functions such as main() & assume that the >> > data structures have already been defined >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Algorithm Geeks" group. >> To post to this group, send email to algoge...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<algogeeks%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Algorithm Geeks" group. > To post to this group, send email to algoge...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<algogeeks%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Algorithm Geeks" group. To post to this group, send email to algoge...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en.
