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You have been given two pieces of flammable rope. The speed at which each individual rope can burn is inconsistent, but if you light the end with a match, the short rope will take 30 minutes to burn and the long rope takes an hour. How can you used the ropes to determine when 45 minutes have passed?
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Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at GoDaddy

3.9
Sep 8, 2011

You have been given two pieces of flammable rope. The speed at which each individual rope can burn is inconsistent, but if you light the end with a match, the short rope will take 30 minutes to burn and the long rope takes an hour. How can you used the ropes to determine when 45 minutes have passed?

There are 5 bowls with 100 candies each. In 4 bowls, all of the candies are 10 grams each. In 1 bowl, all the candies are 9 grams each. Using a digital scale, how can you determine which bowl has the 9 gram candies by using only 1 weighing?
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Senior Hardware Verification Engineer

Interviewed at NVIDIA

4.5
Jan 30, 2010

There are 5 bowls with 100 candies each. In 4 bowls, all of the candies are 10 grams each. In 1 bowl, all the candies are 9 grams each. Using a digital scale, how can you determine which bowl has the 9 gram candies by using only 1 weighing?

try to get a pattern out of string or json. ask you to translate numbers from 1 to 100 to names of numbers ( for example 34 translated to thirty-four). you need to come with a solution within 10 seconds, I am able to get it done within 2 minutes. That's not fast enough.
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Senior Data Engineer

Interviewed at Meta

3.5
May 8, 2018

try to get a pattern out of string or json. ask you to translate numbers from 1 to 100 to names of numbers ( for example 34 translated to thirty-four). you need to come with a solution within 10 seconds, I am able to get it done within 2 minutes. That's not fast enough.

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