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You have 9 marbles which are all the same weight, except for one which is slightly heavier than the others. You also have an old?style balance, which allows you to weigh two piles of marbles to see which one is heavier (or if they are of equal weight). What is the fewest number of weighings that you can make which will tell you which marble is the heavier one ?
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Quality Assurance Engineer

Interviewed at AppLogic Networks

3.7
Sep 26, 2012

You have 9 marbles which are all the same weight, except for one which is slightly heavier than the others. You also have an old?style balance, which allows you to weigh two piles of marbles to see which one is heavier (or if they are of equal weight). What is the fewest number of weighings that you can make which will tell you which marble is the heavier one ?

Given an input string and a dictionary of words, find out if the input string can be segmented into a space-separated sequence of dictionary words. You need to output the minimum number of words. For example, input: "aaaisaname" dict: ("a", "aaa", "is", "name") output: "aaa is a name" Wrong output: "a a a is a name"
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Software Engineer

Interviewed at Pinterest

3.6
Feb 5, 2014

Given an input string and a dictionary of words, find out if the input string can be segmented into a space-separated sequence of dictionary words. You need to output the minimum number of words. For example, input: "aaaisaname" dict: ("a", "aaa", "is", "name") output: "aaa is a name" Wrong output: "a a a is a name"

80% was behavioral and the 3 coding questions were not difficult (tachometer, pair of integers adding to a sum and another string problem to remove numbers from a mix of numbers and characters). Ability to tell your stories is really important. Interviewers keep taking notes while you answer.
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Quality Assurance Engineer

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Jul 5, 2017

80% was behavioral and the 3 coding questions were not difficult (tachometer, pair of integers adding to a sum and another string problem to remove numbers from a mix of numbers and characters). Ability to tell your stories is really important. Interviewers keep taking notes while you answer.

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