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There are 4 people who want to cross a bridge. They each take 1, 2, 5 and 8 minutes. Only 2 people can cross at a time and they take as long as the slowest person. What is the fastest time you can get everyone across? Then I was asked to write the mathematical equation to determine the trade-off point between each of the 2 approaches to solving this.
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Software Developer

Interviewed at Microsoft

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May 2, 2011

There are 4 people who want to cross a bridge. They each take 1, 2, 5 and 8 minutes. Only 2 people can cross at a time and they take as long as the slowest person. What is the fastest time you can get everyone across? Then I was asked to write the mathematical equation to determine the trade-off point between each of the 2 approaches to solving this.

1) Recursively find all FASTQ files in a directory and report each file name and the percent of sequences in that file that are greater than .. 2) Given a FASTA file with DNA sequences, find 10 most frequent sequences and return the sequence and their counts in the file.0 nt long. 3) Given coordinates and a chromosome, write a program for looking up it's annotation. Keep in mind you'll be doing this annotation millions of times. And so on.
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Software Engineer

Interviewed at Enzymatics

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Aug 29, 2014

1) Recursively find all FASTQ files in a directory and report each file name and the percent of sequences in that file that are greater than .. 2) Given a FASTA file with DNA sequences, find 10 most frequent sequences and return the sequence and their counts in the file.0 nt long. 3) Given coordinates and a chromosome, write a program for looking up it's annotation. Keep in mind you'll be doing this annotation millions of times. And so on.

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