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Most of the questions weren't all that difficult and there was very little pressure in solving them. The point was really to see the process of arriving at your answer. The most difficult question was to explain the cardinality of depth first and breadth first search and explain how the algorithms could be written. I actually missed that one as I haven't looked at a text book in years. The question I remembered most was the one about having 2 eggs and dropping them off a 100 story building to determine at what floor they begin to break. What is the least amount of attempts required to determine this answer?
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Software Engineer I

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5★
Mar 17, 2014

Most of the questions weren't all that difficult and there was very little pressure in solving them. The point was really to see the process of arriving at your answer. The most difficult question was to explain the cardinality of depth first and breadth first search and explain how the algorithms could be written. I actually missed that one as I haven't looked at a text book in years. The question I remembered most was the one about having 2 eggs and dropping them off a 100 story building to determine at what floor they begin to break. What is the least amount of attempts required to determine this answer?

How do you get an unspecified number of documents from Boston-California... You have a copier with unlimited paper and ink. You also have one initial phone call to set up protocols. After the initial phone call there is no communication. You have an unlimited amount of envelops with stamps. One page per envelop. How do you get all of the pages to the office in Cali in order.
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Software Developer I

Interviewed at Oracle

3.5★
Jan 15, 2014

How do you get an unspecified number of documents from Boston-California... You have a copier with unlimited paper and ink. You also have one initial phone call to set up protocols. After the initial phone call there is no communication. You have an unlimited amount of envelops with stamps. One page per envelop. How do you get all of the pages to the office in Cali in order.

Technical Rounds: First round they asked me puzzles of finding the number of trails needed to find defective piece in given set of balls, if a magical pond with balls in it doubling every day fills pond in 13 days, on which day it will be filled 1/4th, in a horse race of 5 horses at a time, how many trails are needed to get the top 3 horses out of 25 horses and so on of these types. Programming was pgms on liked list like reversing linked list, and some pgms on hashes. He told me to write in java if possible. I used python as it was easier. Second round he asked me to explain difference between switches and routers, explain ARP, write a pgm to find max consecutive one's n zero's equal in number present in the given binary string, some simple puzzles were written on board, he told me to solve them. Managerial round: Third round he asked me to tell any one thing that makes me stand out of crowd in my department (mine was CSE) and explain that thing in detail. Also asked whether i was interested in pursuing higher studies. (Always tell NO for obvious reasons :p ) HR round: This was as usual, family background, strength n weakness about you. He also asked how many times i have been rejected after reaching till HR round and also how many companies i attended before this.
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Software Engineer I

Interviewed at Cisco

4.1★
May 16, 2015

Technical Rounds: First round they asked me puzzles of finding the number of trails needed to find defective piece in given set of balls, if a magical pond with balls in it doubling every day fills pond in 13 days, on which day it will be filled 1/4th, in a horse race of 5 horses at a time, how many trails are needed to get the top 3 horses out of 25 horses and so on of these types. Programming was pgms on liked list like reversing linked list, and some pgms on hashes. He told me to write in java if possible. I used python as it was easier. Second round he asked me to explain difference between switches and routers, explain ARP, write a pgm to find max consecutive one's n zero's equal in number present in the given binary string, some simple puzzles were written on board, he told me to solve them. Managerial round: Third round he asked me to tell any one thing that makes me stand out of crowd in my department (mine was CSE) and explain that thing in detail. Also asked whether i was interested in pursuing higher studies. (Always tell NO for obvious reasons :p ) HR round: This was as usual, family background, strength n weakness about you. He also asked how many times i have been rejected after reaching till HR round and also how many companies i attended before this.

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