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Another was a puzzle: A king orders 100 bottles of wine for a celebration. A courtier who's angry with the king over something puts poison in one of those bottles. The king has a way of identifying the poisoned bottle by giving a few drops of wine to a monkey. Since the poison is fast acting, the monkey will die immediately. Whats the minimum number of monkeys needed to find the poisoned bottle?
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Senior Software Developer

Interviewed at Tower Research Capital

4.1
Jun 7, 2010

Another was a puzzle: A king orders 100 bottles of wine for a celebration. A courtier who's angry with the king over something puts poison in one of those bottles. The king has a way of identifying the poisoned bottle by giving a few drops of wine to a monkey. Since the poison is fast acting, the monkey will die immediately. Whats the minimum number of monkeys needed to find the poisoned bottle?

iOS developers have a "dispatch_after(when, queue, block)" Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) function they can utilize but once it's set up, these calls can not be easily cancelled. Describe how you might implement a more convenient version of this named "cancellable_dispatch_after"
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IOS Developer

Interviewed at Meta

3.6
Jan 14, 2016

iOS developers have a "dispatch_after(when, queue, block)" Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) function they can utilize but once it's set up, these calls can not be easily cancelled. Describe how you might implement a more convenient version of this named "cancellable_dispatch_after"

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