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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

2 robots land on a planet that only has x coordinate (a line). The robots can only go either left or right. The planet has nothing on it except the parachute that each robot has used. You're asked to program the robot to meet each other in the shortest amount of time. You're only allowed to use if statement and "Go left" and "Go right". The if statement can only contain: if the robot meet each other, or if the robot see its own parachute.
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Software Engineering Intern

Interviewed at Microsoft

4★
Oct 24, 2012

2 robots land on a planet that only has x coordinate (a line). The robots can only go either left or right. The planet has nothing on it except the parachute that each robot has used. You're asked to program the robot to meet each other in the shortest amount of time. You're only allowed to use if statement and "Go left" and "Go right". The if statement can only contain: if the robot meet each other, or if the robot see its own parachute.

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