Count Islands in a Binary Grid
Company: Visa
Role: Software Engineer I
Category: Coding & Algorithms
Difficulty: medium
Interview Round: Online Assessment
Overview: Count islands in a binary matrix using four-directional DFS or BFS without mutating the input. Compare traversal memory behavior and handle empty grids, isolated cells, diagonal contact, and long components that make recursive search unsafe.
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