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analytical- there are 50 floors in a building. You are given two balls which can break at a certain f trheight . Give a solution where you can determine the critical height at which a ball breaks. the solution should be optimised to give the least no. of tries for the worst case scenario(i.e where the ball breaks on the 50th floor only)
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Principal Engineer

Interviewed at Intuit

4.2
Jun 20, 2009

analytical- there are 50 floors in a building. You are given two balls which can break at a certain f trheight . Give a solution where you can determine the critical height at which a ball breaks. the solution should be optimised to give the least no. of tries for the worst case scenario(i.e where the ball breaks on the 50th floor only)

The VCR Plus feature was described. In the TV programming guide each program/show/movie had its own code. When user wanted to program the VCR to record a particular show she just had to enter the program code from the guide - no need to enter the start and end time. I was asked to design this feature. How can it be achieved?
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Principal Engineer

Interviewed at Deem

3.6
Mar 18, 2009

The VCR Plus feature was described. In the TV programming guide each program/show/movie had its own code. When user wanted to program the VCR to record a particular show she just had to enter the program code from the guide - no need to enter the start and end time. I was asked to design this feature. How can it be achieved?

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