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Imagine you have only two eggs and a 100 story building in front of you. Describe an algorithm (or technique) to minimize the number of throws (or tries) to determine where the egg will start to break when thrown off the building. If the egg breaks when thrown from that floor, it will always break from that floor or higher (i.e. all eggs have the same results per floor; they break or they don't).
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Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at Adobe

4.1★
Mar 9, 2017

Imagine you have only two eggs and a 100 story building in front of you. Describe an algorithm (or technique) to minimize the number of throws (or tries) to determine where the egg will start to break when thrown off the building. If the egg breaks when thrown from that floor, it will always break from that floor or higher (i.e. all eggs have the same results per floor; they break or they don't).

Using some functions they gave me which operate with cells in spreadsheets, I had to compute sum of an array. Later I had to implement by myself those functions: the trickiest thing was to implement the part when some cell is a sum of two other cells and some of those two cells is a some of some other cells and so on ...
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Software Engineer

Interviewed at Jane Street

4.4★
Oct 18, 2015

Using some functions they gave me which operate with cells in spreadsheets, I had to compute sum of an array. Later I had to implement by myself those functions: the trickiest thing was to implement the part when some cell is a sum of two other cells and some of those two cells is a some of some other cells and so on ...

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