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You have 1000 wine bottles. Exactly one bottle is poisoned. A rat that drinks the poisoned wine will die within 1 hour. (Assume rats can each sip any number of samples once at the start.) Determine the minimum number of rats needed to identify which single bottle is poisoned in 1 hour.
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Firmware Engineer

Interviewed at NVIDIA

4.4
Sep 29, 2025

You have 1000 wine bottles. Exactly one bottle is poisoned. A rat that drinks the poisoned wine will die within 1 hour. (Assume rats can each sip any number of samples once at the start.) Determine the minimum number of rats needed to identify which single bottle is poisoned in 1 hour.

Tell me about linux internals and linux kernal. What is a heap and a stack? Difference between list and tuple in python. What is an zombie process, how do you deal with it? What is interrupt latency, race condition, context switch? Where do you see yourself in five years?
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Firmware Test Engineer Intern

Interviewed at Micron Technology

3.9
Mar 24, 2013

Tell me about linux internals and linux kernal. What is a heap and a stack? Difference between list and tuple in python. What is an zombie process, how do you deal with it? What is interrupt latency, race condition, context switch? Where do you see yourself in five years?

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