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You have 25 horses, and you want to know which are the top 3 fastest, but you don't have a stopwatch. You can race the horses, but the track is only big enough to fit 5 horses at a time. How do you find the first, second and third fastest horses using the least amount of races possible?
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Financial Software Developer

Interviewed at Bloomberg

4
Jan 30, 2010

You have 25 horses, and you want to know which are the top 3 fastest, but you don't have a stopwatch. You can race the horses, but the track is only big enough to fit 5 horses at a time. How do you find the first, second and third fastest horses using the least amount of races possible?

decide whether the enter should be accepted or not for a passcode, one number missing is permitted, can be missed several times, 18687 is the passcode, then 167 is accepted, the rest should be right and in right sequence.
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Software Engineer

Interviewed at Epic

3.3
Oct 25, 2011

decide whether the enter should be accepted or not for a passcode, one number missing is permitted, can be missed several times, 18687 is the passcode, then 167 is accepted, the rest should be right and in right sequence.

What is mutex, semaphore? What is best sorting algorithm, its time complexity? Fibonacci which skips one digit eg: 5!=5x3x1 Exceptional handling Function overriding Inheritance concepts Race condition, life stages of thread A lot of code snippets asking to predict output Birthday Paradox problem How to check if a number can be expressed in powers of 2? Using bitwise op OO model for a college including professor students etc
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Applications Support Engineer

Interviewed at MathWorks

4.3
Nov 8, 2015

What is mutex, semaphore? What is best sorting algorithm, its time complexity? Fibonacci which skips one digit eg: 5!=5x3x1 Exceptional handling Function overriding Inheritance concepts Race condition, life stages of thread A lot of code snippets asking to predict output Birthday Paradox problem How to check if a number can be expressed in powers of 2? Using bitwise op OO model for a college including professor students etc

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