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The question was to write a simple program in any language that allows a user to guess a 4 digit pin containing only the numbers 1 - 5, If the user did not get the correct answer the program was to tell then how many digits they guessed correctly in the correct place and how many digits they guessed that were in the computers guess but not in the correct place....
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Software Developer

Interviewed at PowerShop

4.1
Feb 14, 2015

The question was to write a simple program in any language that allows a user to guess a 4 digit pin containing only the numbers 1 - 5, If the user did not get the correct answer the program was to tell then how many digits they guessed correctly in the correct place and how many digits they guessed that were in the computers guess but not in the correct place....

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Engineer

Interviewed at Maharashtra Seamless

2.4
Jun 15, 2021

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A few questions on basic command-line syntax in Unix shells: 1. How would you log output and error messages from a command to a file? 2. How would you run the same command on every file in a directory? 3. How would you find the PID of a named process (say if you wanted to kill it)?
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Software Engineer

Interviewed at Morgan Stanley

3.9
Feb 28, 2012

A few questions on basic command-line syntax in Unix shells: 1. How would you log output and error messages from a command to a file? 2. How would you run the same command on every file in a directory? 3. How would you find the PID of a named process (say if you wanted to kill it)?

You have a genealogy: 1) Describe a data structure to represent it. 2) Given any two people within the genealogy, describe an algorithm to determine if they share a common ancestor. You just need to return true/false, not all ancestors.
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Software Engineer

Interviewed at Google

4.4
Mar 21, 2010

You have a genealogy: 1) Describe a data structure to represent it. 2) Given any two people within the genealogy, describe an algorithm to determine if they share a common ancestor. You just need to return true/false, not all ancestors.

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