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There are 20 floors in a building. If you're on an elevator and you're trying to get to the 20th floor, what is the probability that 4 people ahead of you click the 20th floor before you do? Assuming you click last.
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Financial Software Developer Intern

Interviewed at Bloomberg

4
Apr 17, 2012

There are 20 floors in a building. If you're on an elevator and you're trying to get to the 20th floor, what is the probability that 4 people ahead of you click the 20th floor before you do? Assuming you click last.

Derive customer's account status as of month end for all the months in 2019. If for given month, there are more than one rows, pick the data from the latest date within the month. If for given month, there is no data, pick the data from latest date prior to the month You can use last_day function to get month ending date(Eg: last_day(01/01/2015) = 01/31/2015) customer_id event_date status credit_limit 1 1/1/2019 C 1000 1 1/5/2019 F 1000 1 3/10/2019 1000 1 3/10/2019 1000 1 8/27/2019 L 1000 2 1/1/2019 L 2000 2 1/5/2019 2500 2 3/10/2019 2500 3 1/1/2019 S 5000 3 1/5/2019 6000 3 3/10/2019 B 5000 4 3/10/2019 B 10000
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Business Intelligence Engineer

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Mar 2, 2021

Derive customer's account status as of month end for all the months in 2019. If for given month, there are more than one rows, pick the data from the latest date within the month. If for given month, there is no data, pick the data from latest date prior to the month You can use last_day function to get month ending date(Eg: last_day(01/01/2015) = 01/31/2015) customer_id event_date status credit_limit 1 1/1/2019 C 1000 1 1/5/2019 F 1000 1 3/10/2019 1000 1 3/10/2019 1000 1 8/27/2019 L 1000 2 1/1/2019 L 2000 2 1/5/2019 2500 2 3/10/2019 2500 3 1/1/2019 S 5000 3 1/5/2019 6000 3 3/10/2019 B 5000 4 3/10/2019 B 10000

This was not unexpected but a bit difficult. How would you represent the ordering of a deck of card if you only have 32bytes to work with. So, he explained that you have 52 objects, there are 52! possible ordering of them. how to encode one of those ordering within 32 bytes?
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Software Development Engineer

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Oct 2, 2011

This was not unexpected but a bit difficult. How would you represent the ordering of a deck of card if you only have 32bytes to work with. So, he explained that you have 52 objects, there are 52! possible ordering of them. how to encode one of those ordering within 32 bytes?

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