Algorithm Development Engineer Interview Questions

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Program was already %99 complete. The function took a sentence in the form of a string as input. It then gets the first character of the string and you need to return "digit" if the first character was a number, "Upper" if it's a capital, or "Lower" if it's a lowercase letter. They already had everything already coded besides the 3 conditions to check for in the if/else statements.
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Algorithm Engineer

Interviewed at Hudson River Trading

4.1
Jan 6, 2021

Program was already %99 complete. The function took a sentence in the form of a string as input. It then gets the first character of the string and you need to return "digit" if the first character was a number, "Upper" if it's a capital, or "Lower" if it's a lowercase letter. They already had everything already coded besides the 3 conditions to check for in the if/else statements.

Given a binary image with a single unfilled circle, try to find an efficient algorithm for finding it's radius and center. Follow-up: now assume the circle has a small degree of noise, how would you estimate the radius and center efficiently?
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Cameras Algorithm Engineer

Interviewed at Intel Corporation

3.9
Feb 12, 2017

Given a binary image with a single unfilled circle, try to find an efficient algorithm for finding it's radius and center. Follow-up: now assume the circle has a small degree of noise, how would you estimate the radius and center efficiently?

What is the difference between mean and median filter? If you apply a moving average filter to a signal what would happen to the signal standard deviation? What is the difference between logistic regression and a single layer single unit neural network? What is the difference with FIR and IIR?
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Algorithm Engineer

Interviewed at Apple

4.1
Feb 25, 2018

What is the difference between mean and median filter? If you apply a moving average filter to a signal what would happen to the signal standard deviation? What is the difference between logistic regression and a single layer single unit neural network? What is the difference with FIR and IIR?

In addition to lots of stats questions, A/B testing, sql and R coding questions, I was given one of those stupid brain teaser questions. Setup was a "chicken" can move 1 foot at a time. Chickens are in a 10 foot radius circle with no fence. Farmer will hit chicken and cause it to move back 2 feet in the opposite direction if chicken gets closer to the perimeter of the circle. However, farmer will not hit chicken if the chicken will end up equally or closer to the perimeter after the 2 ft retreating move. Describe an algorithm to get the chicken out of the circle without getting hit. How many moves will it take? Is there a shape you can imagine that the chicken could not escape from?
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Algorithm Analyst/Statistician

Interviewed at Apple

4.1
Nov 23, 2016

In addition to lots of stats questions, A/B testing, sql and R coding questions, I was given one of those stupid brain teaser questions. Setup was a "chicken" can move 1 foot at a time. Chickens are in a 10 foot radius circle with no fence. Farmer will hit chicken and cause it to move back 2 feet in the opposite direction if chicken gets closer to the perimeter of the circle. However, farmer will not hit chicken if the chicken will end up equally or closer to the perimeter after the 2 ft retreating move. Describe an algorithm to get the chicken out of the circle without getting hit. How many moves will it take? Is there a shape you can imagine that the chicken could not escape from?

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