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(following the previous one) You got only ONE baby bottle sample. You would like to know the max height you can drop it without breaking the bottle. Let set the unit as 1 foot. And the highest height you can reach is at N feet. So how would you find the (max) safe height?
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Software Development Engineer Intern

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Jan 28, 2012

(following the previous one) You got only ONE baby bottle sample. You would like to know the max height you can drop it without breaking the bottle. Let set the unit as 1 foot. And the highest height you can reach is at N feet. So how would you find the (max) safe height?

I was given a short function in C (dictated because we were hanging on a phone): int foo(int a) { int result = 0; while (a >>= 1) result += 1 return result } And my task was to say what's wrong with this function, what's its purpose and what would I write my colleague who submitted it for a code review
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Software Engineer Intern

Interviewed at NVIDIA

4.4
Dec 31, 2011

I was given a short function in C (dictated because we were hanging on a phone): int foo(int a) { int result = 0; while (a >>= 1) result += 1 return result } And my task was to say what's wrong with this function, what's its purpose and what would I write my colleague who submitted it for a code review

Given a library of numbers to corresponding letters (1 = a, 2 = b, 3 = c, etc.) and a string made up of digits, return how many different ways those digits can be translated to letters. ex: “1111”: “aaaa” “kaa” “aka” “aak” “kk” => 5 different ways
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Software Engineer Intern

Interviewed at Meta

3.5
Feb 25, 2014

Given a library of numbers to corresponding letters (1 = a, 2 = b, 3 = c, etc.) and a string made up of digits, return how many different ways those digits can be translated to letters. ex: “1111”: “aaaa” “kaa” “aka” “aak” “kk” => 5 different ways

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