They asked how I would deal with a situation where I believed the study lead of a project I was working on was making an incorrect decision.
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Printing Neatly: Consider the problem of neatly printing a paragraph on a printer. The input text is a sequence of n words of lengths l1, l2, . . . , ln, measured in characters. We want to print this paragraph neatly on a number of lines that hold a maximum of M characters each. Our criterion of “neatness” is as follows. If a given line contains words i through j, where i ≤ j , and we leave exactly one space between words, the number of extra space characters at the end of the line is M-J+i- ∑_(k=i)^j▒l_k , which must be nonnegative so that the words fit on the line. We wish to minimize the sum, over all lines except the last, of the cubes of the numbers of extra space characters at the ends of lines. Give a dynamic-programming algorithm to print a paragraph of n words neatly on a printer. Analyze the running time and space requirements of your algorithm.
The paper tests are easy, need not much computation. The in-person questions are more practice-oriented and may require strong programming experience and skills.
The advanced technical interview is too hard, you should prepared well for Java, C++ and SQL
Explain how you would design a network optimization problem.
- What do you know about MOIA? - If you were to pick among linear, quadratic or other non-linear objective functions, how would you proceed? - Do you know experience with numpy/scipy scientific computing stack?
Nothing particularly unexpected.
Can you give an example of a research paper you read recently that you found interesting?
What clubs were you a member of in college? What prompted you to graduate with three majors? Describe some of your experiences on the debate team.
Typical “run me through your resume”; why do you want to work with us; explain what we do as a company
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