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The first question he gave me was not hard. 1. You call to someone's house and asked if they have two children. The answer happens to be yes. Then you ask if one of their children is a boy. The answer happens to be yes again. What's the probability that the second child is a boy? 2. (Much harder) You call to someone's house and asked if they have two children. The answer happens to be yes. Then you ask if one of their children's name a William. The answer happens to be yes again.(We assume William is a boy's name, and that it's possible that both children are Williams) What's the probability that the second child is a boy?
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Software Engineering and Quantitative Research

Interviewed at D. E. Shaw & Co. - Investment Firm

3.8★
9 Jan 2014

The first question he gave me was not hard. 1. You call to someone's house and asked if they have two children. The answer happens to be yes. Then you ask if one of their children is a boy. The answer happens to be yes again. What's the probability that the second child is a boy? 2. (Much harder) You call to someone's house and asked if they have two children. The answer happens to be yes. Then you ask if one of their children's name a William. The answer happens to be yes again.(We assume William is a boy's name, and that it's possible that both children are Williams) What's the probability that the second child is a boy?

Say you have a single-column table of entries of variable size. Implement this table to also contain methods to lengthen one cell, cut a cell shorter, and to return which cell we're pointing at if given a certain distance from the beginning of the table. All methods need to be fast (assume a single-column table with many many entries).
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Software Engineering Intern

Interviewed at Palantir Technologies

3.7★
16 Apr 2012

Say you have a single-column table of entries of variable size. Implement this table to also contain methods to lengthen one cell, cut a cell shorter, and to return which cell we're pointing at if given a certain distance from the beginning of the table. All methods need to be fast (assume a single-column table with many many entries).

You're given an array of numbers, and you want to find 3 numbers that sum to 0 and output those 3 numbers. You can use each number multiple times. So if you're given the array [-1, 1, 2], you would output [-1, -1, 2] because -1 -1 +2=0
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Software Engineering Intern

Interviewed at Meta

3.6★
6 Aug 2015

You're given an array of numbers, and you want to find 3 numbers that sum to 0 and output those 3 numbers. You can use each number multiple times. So if you're given the array [-1, 1, 2], you would output [-1, -1, 2] because -1 -1 +2=0

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