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The question vary. I was asked to solve the following riddle: 10 people were kidnapped by aliens. The aliens want to eat all 10 people, but they're saying that they don't eat highly intelligent species. To test they will give a hat colored white or black to each one of the kidnapped dudes. After that, the 10 people will stand one after another by height - the highest person will be the first and the shortest the last, that way that every one of them sees only ones, shorter than him. The number of black/white hats is random. They have 10 min to discuss the strategy and after that, one-by-one they have to guess the color of their own hat. They can't give clues to each over, they can't say anything but "black" or "white". They have to guess correctly at least 9 of 10, otherwise they'll be eaten.
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Validation Engineer

Interviewed at Intel Corporation

3.9
Mar 21, 2016

The question vary. I was asked to solve the following riddle: 10 people were kidnapped by aliens. The aliens want to eat all 10 people, but they're saying that they don't eat highly intelligent species. To test they will give a hat colored white or black to each one of the kidnapped dudes. After that, the 10 people will stand one after another by height - the highest person will be the first and the shortest the last, that way that every one of them sees only ones, shorter than him. The number of black/white hats is random. They have 10 min to discuss the strategy and after that, one-by-one they have to guess the color of their own hat. They can't give clues to each over, they can't say anything but "black" or "white". They have to guess correctly at least 9 of 10, otherwise they'll be eaten.

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Hardware Validation Intern

Interviewed at Intel Corporation

3.9
May 1, 2016

Personal Questions: How will you solve missing a milestone for a project? Why are you a better candidate for this job than the others? What have been your worst mistake (school or work project) and how did you compensated, or solved it? Which was your most dificult subject at school and why? Techinal Questions: Difference between C and C++? What is a dictionary in Phyton? What is the difference between a flip flop and a latch? What is an static class in java? What is polymorphism in OOP? HDL design problems. Digital Circuit design problems. C programation problems. Differences between a class and a structure? Memory syncronization problems. Logic questions: You have 3 sacks full of coins but 1 of them contains fake ones that look exactly the same but weight .1 g less than real ones, you only have 1 chance to weight them, how do you know which sack contains the fake ones? You again have 3 sacks, one is full of red balls, the other is full with black balls and the last one has both red and black balls; all of them are labeled for their contents but are labeled WRONG, what is the least amount of movements that arenecessary to label them correctly?

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