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I am in a 100-story building. I have with me two glass balls. I know that if I throw the ball out of the window, it will not break if the floor number is less than X, and it will always breaks if the floor number is equal to or greater than X. Assuming that I can reuse the balls which don't break, find X in the minimum number of throws.
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Software Developer

Interviewed at FINRA

3.8
Aug 25, 2013

I am in a 100-story building. I have with me two glass balls. I know that if I throw the ball out of the window, it will not break if the floor number is less than X, and it will always breaks if the floor number is equal to or greater than X. Assuming that I can reuse the balls which don't break, find X in the minimum number of throws.

Given a set of inputs <number, userid> in a log file: log: <number, userid> example: 1,2 1,1 2,1 3,1 1,2 out: <number, count> 1,2 2,1 3,1 The output should be all the unique numbers and the count associated with them.
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Software Engineer

Interviewed at Meta

3.5
Aug 28, 2009

Given a set of inputs <number, userid> in a log file: log: <number, userid> example: 1,2 1,1 2,1 3,1 1,2 out: <number, count> 1,2 2,1 3,1 The output should be all the unique numbers and the count associated with them.

You are given intervals of contiguous integers, like [1, 10), [15, 25), [40, 50), which are non-overlapping and of a fixed size. Design a data structure to store these intervals and have the operations of insert, delete, and find functions
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Software Engineer

Interviewed at Meta

3.5
Mar 16, 2011

You are given intervals of contiguous integers, like [1, 10), [15, 25), [40, 50), which are non-overlapping and of a fixed size. Design a data structure to store these intervals and have the operations of insert, delete, and find functions

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