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-General CV things, e.g., tell me about your final year project. -3 cans of marbles, one with red, one with green and the other mixed. Cans are incorrectly labelled. What is the minimum number of marbles you need to pull out to know which can holds what marbles? - 25 horses on a racetrack. Can only race up to 5 at a time, and you don't have a stopwatch. What is the minimum number of races you need to have in order to determine the fastest 3 horses?
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Graduate Software Developer

Interviewed at TPP

2.6★
Nov 22, 2016

-General CV things, e.g., tell me about your final year project. -3 cans of marbles, one with red, one with green and the other mixed. Cans are incorrectly labelled. What is the minimum number of marbles you need to pull out to know which can holds what marbles? - 25 horses on a racetrack. Can only race up to 5 at a time, and you don't have a stopwatch. What is the minimum number of races you need to have in order to determine the fastest 3 horses?

Estimate number of lamposts in UK; broken (though they don't say that initially) java for-loop, explain what it's meant to do, explain what it'll actually do, explain one way of fixing it, if you don't get the most elegant one they'll suggest counting down instead of counting up which fixes the problem immediately
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Graduate Software Developer

Interviewed at TPP

2.6★
Jan 10, 2017

Estimate number of lamposts in UK; broken (though they don't say that initially) java for-loop, explain what it's meant to do, explain what it'll actually do, explain one way of fixing it, if you don't get the most elegant one they'll suggest counting down instead of counting up which fixes the problem immediately

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