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You are playing a coin game between yourself and an opponent on a round table. The object is to place coins one after another until the table is filled with a single layer of coins. Would you go first or second and why?
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Interviewed at Thermo Fisher Scientific

3.5★
Aug 21, 2020

You are playing a coin game between yourself and an opponent on a round table. The object is to place coins one after another until the table is filled with a single layer of coins. Would you go first or second and why?

I cannot reveal the questions I got asked. But here's some that has very similar flavor: 1) Check if an integer is a palindrome (do not convert the integer to string) 2) Given 2 sorted arrays of integers, code to find a number from each array such that their sum are closest to some integer K? 3) What is the degree of freedom for lasso?
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Data Scientist

Interviewed at Adobe

4.1★
Apr 24, 2015

I cannot reveal the questions I got asked. But here's some that has very similar flavor: 1) Check if an integer is a palindrome (do not convert the integer to string) 2) Given 2 sorted arrays of integers, code to find a number from each array such that their sum are closest to some integer K? 3) What is the degree of freedom for lasso?

You have a function which gets k as input and in o(1) time returns a random number between 1 to k. Create a function that returns a random permutation (a list of the numbers 1 to n in a random order), optimize for speed (I think O(n) is best).
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Data Scientist

Interviewed at Pagaya

3.3★
Dec 22, 2020

You have a function which gets k as input and in o(1) time returns a random number between 1 to k. Create a function that returns a random permutation (a list of the numbers 1 to n in a random order), optimize for speed (I think O(n) is best).

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