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Shortest Unique Substrings for UI Shortcuts

AtlassianSoftware Engineer · Senior+ · Technical Screen · Aug 2026

In a Web UI dropdown, users needed help quickly memorizing keyboard shortcuts. For every string in an input list, find its shortest unique substring and wrap that substring with the tags and . Implement a function that performs this transformation. The detailed requirements were: Uniqueness: The chosen substring must not appear anywhere as a substring of any other string in the input list…

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