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Phone interview 1 : a) Simulate a Queue with stacks ? b)Find repeated occurrence of character in a string ? Phone interview 2 : a) Given a 2D matrix of numbers find the position of number . Constraints of matrix number always in increasing order left to right and top to bottom . b)When should version control be used . And a tricky discreet math problem ?
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Software Engineer Test

Interviewed at Google

4.4
Nov 21, 2009

Phone interview 1 : a) Simulate a Queue with stacks ? b)Find repeated occurrence of character in a string ? Phone interview 2 : a) Given a 2D matrix of numbers find the position of number . Constraints of matrix number always in increasing order left to right and top to bottom . b)When should version control be used . And a tricky discreet math problem ?

I was asked a pretty straight forward brain teaser during my last phone interview, which they said they don't normally do, but because I put that I was a logical problem solver on my resume they couldn't resist the opportunity to. It was the following "There are 20 different socks of two types in a drawer in a completely dark room. What is the minimum number of socks you should grab to ensure you have a matching pair?"
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Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET)

Interviewed at Webtrends

3.2
Sep 26, 2012

I was asked a pretty straight forward brain teaser during my last phone interview, which they said they don't normally do, but because I put that I was a logical problem solver on my resume they couldn't resist the opportunity to. It was the following "There are 20 different socks of two types in a drawer in a completely dark room. What is the minimum number of socks you should grab to ensure you have a matching pair?"

+-----------+ | 1 | 2 | 3 | +-----------+ | 4 | 5 | 6 | +-----------+ | 7 | 8 | 9 | +-----------+ | * | 0 | # | +-----------+ +---+ | U | +---+ +---+ +---+ +---+ | L | | S | | R | +---+ +---+ +---+ +---+ | D | +—+ Input String: "180*", output is the number of minimum operations needed to dial the input */ 2)How do you test login page?
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Software Development Engineer In Test

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Oct 11, 2017

+-----------+ | 1 | 2 | 3 | +-----------+ | 4 | 5 | 6 | +-----------+ | 7 | 8 | 9 | +-----------+ | * | 0 | # | +-----------+ +---+ | U | +---+ +---+ +---+ +---+ | L | | S | | R | +---+ +---+ +---+ +---+ | D | +—+ Input String: "180*", output is the number of minimum operations needed to dial the input */ 2)How do you test login page?

Consider a stack of N number of cards which are piled up and in facing down. Each card has a unique number from the range 1 to N. The card is stacked in such a way that it exhibits the following behavior: Take the first card and put it under the stack without revealing. Now the next card on the top will have the number 1 on it. Next take 2 cards one after the other and put is under the stack without revealing. Yes you guessed it right - the next card on the top will reveal a value of 2. This goes on. Eg. for such a series : 9,1,8,5,2,4,7,6,3,10 [for N=10] Write a program to generate such a series for a given N number of cards so that this behavior can be exercised.
May 26, 2013

Consider a stack of N number of cards which are piled up and in facing down. Each card has a unique number from the range 1 to N. The card is stacked in such a way that it exhibits the following behavior: Take the first card and put it under the stack without revealing. Now the next card on the top will have the number 1 on it. Next take 2 cards one after the other and put is under the stack without revealing. Yes you guessed it right - the next card on the top will reveal a value of 2. This goes on. Eg. for such a series : 9,1,8,5,2,4,7,6,3,10 [for N=10] Write a program to generate such a series for a given N number of cards so that this behavior can be exercised.

You have 2 buckets in a room and one bucket has 17 Red balls, 19 Green Balls, 21 Blue Balls, 23 Yellow Balls. You are blindfolded and you need to pick one ball at a time and put in the bucket#2. You should stop at a point where you are confident that the color of the ball you are putting in already exists in the bucket#2. When would you stop?
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QCT Modem Test Engineer

Interviewed at Qualcomm

3.8
Apr 13, 2012

You have 2 buckets in a room and one bucket has 17 Red balls, 19 Green Balls, 21 Blue Balls, 23 Yellow Balls. You are blindfolded and you need to pick one ball at a time and put in the bucket#2. You should stop at a point where you are confident that the color of the ball you are putting in already exists in the bucket#2. When would you stop?

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