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Critical Thinking Question: You have three boxes—one containing only black balls, another containing only white balls, and a third containing both black and white balls. Each box has a label in front of it (Black, White, or Mixed), but all the labels are incorrect. How many iterations would it take to correctly label each box?

Software Engineer Entry Level

Interviewed at Anonymous

3.4
Aug 23, 2024

Critical Thinking Question: You have three boxes—one containing only black balls, another containing only white balls, and a third containing both black and white balls. Each box has a label in front of it (Black, White, or Mixed), but all the labels are incorrect. How many iterations would it take to correctly label each box?

Solve the "ginortS" problem on Hackerrank--basically sort the string so that the lowercase letters come before the uppercase, and the uppercase come before the digits, and the even #s come before the odd. (hint: Use Python for ease) I used Java and it is much more complicated this way.
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Entry Level Software Engineer

Interviewed at Vanguard

3.7
Mar 17, 2021

Solve the "ginortS" problem on Hackerrank--basically sort the string so that the lowercase letters come before the uppercase, and the uppercase come before the digits, and the even #s come before the odd. (hint: Use Python for ease) I used Java and it is much more complicated this way.

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