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You have 2 jars and 50 black beads and 50 white beads. How many would you put of each color in each jar so that if a bead was randomly selected from both jars, you had the greatest chance they would match? You have to put all of the beads in the jars.
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Software Engineer II

Interviewed at Blackbaud

3.2
Sep 27, 2013

You have 2 jars and 50 black beads and 50 white beads. How many would you put of each color in each jar so that if a bead was randomly selected from both jars, you had the greatest chance they would match? You have to put all of the beads in the jars.

phone numbers: provided a phone number (654-876-0987), return all possible strings that the phone number could represent if 2 -> {A, B, C}, 3 -> {D, E, F}, and so on common substring: find the biggest common substring in 2 strings, "abcdef" "gbcdh" would return "bcd"
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Software Engineer Intern

Interviewed at Meta

3.6
Oct 11, 2012

phone numbers: provided a phone number (654-876-0987), return all possible strings that the phone number could represent if 2 -> {A, B, C}, 3 -> {D, E, F}, and so on common substring: find the biggest common substring in 2 strings, "abcdef" "gbcdh" would return "bcd"

We have a log file, can grow pretty big. Each line is a trace-log, and the first field is the RequestID. We need to scan the file, and print all the logs for requests which resulted in error .. 001 <timestamp> BEGIN 001 <timestamp> fetched from db 001 <timestamp> some processing .. 002 <timestamp> BEGIN .. 002 <timestamp> fetched from db 001 <timestamp> returned success 003 <timestamp> BEGIN 001 <timestamp> END 003 <timestamp> some work 002 <timestamp> ERROR 003 <timestamp> some other work
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Software Developer

Interviewed at Booking.com

4.1
Mar 30, 2017

We have a log file, can grow pretty big. Each line is a trace-log, and the first field is the RequestID. We need to scan the file, and print all the logs for requests which resulted in error .. 001 <timestamp> BEGIN 001 <timestamp> fetched from db 001 <timestamp> some processing .. 002 <timestamp> BEGIN .. 002 <timestamp> fetched from db 001 <timestamp> returned success 003 <timestamp> BEGIN 001 <timestamp> END 003 <timestamp> some work 002 <timestamp> ERROR 003 <timestamp> some other work

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