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There are three boxes, one contains only apples, one contains only oranges, and one contains both apples and oranges. The boxes have been incorrectly labeled such that no label identifies the actual contents of the box it labels. Opening just one box, and without looking in the box, you take out one piece of fruit. By looking at the fruit, how can you immediately label all of the boxes correctly?
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Trading Systems Support Analyst

Interviewed at Belvedere Trading

4.2
Apr 3, 2019

There are three boxes, one contains only apples, one contains only oranges, and one contains both apples and oranges. The boxes have been incorrectly labeled such that no label identifies the actual contents of the box it labels. Opening just one box, and without looking in the box, you take out one piece of fruit. By looking at the fruit, how can you immediately label all of the boxes correctly?

Most of the questions were around architecture of web systems. There was also a coding question which was a pair programming exercise. I was given a choice of what I wanted to implement from a limited pool of questions.
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Systems Engineer

Interviewed at Cloudflare

3.3
Oct 12, 2016

Most of the questions were around architecture of web systems. There was also a coding question which was a pair programming exercise. I was given a choice of what I wanted to implement from a limited pool of questions.

DBMS questions: normalization, foreign key, referential integrity, information security, sql query, Codd's Rule, etc C, C++ programming questions, some coding questions like string reversal, pattern printing, etc and other OS fundamental questions
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Management Trainee (Systems)

Interviewed at Tata Steel

3.8
Dec 17, 2017

DBMS questions: normalization, foreign key, referential integrity, information security, sql query, Codd's Rule, etc C, C++ programming questions, some coding questions like string reversal, pattern printing, etc and other OS fundamental questions

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