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Please write a function that accepts a floating number and returns its square-root. You may not use built-in square root function from your language. However, basic operators like addition, subtraction, multiplication are allowed. Please take into consideration the floating precision.
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Software Developer

Interviewed at Epic

3.3
Aug 29, 2009

Please write a function that accepts a floating number and returns its square-root. You may not use built-in square root function from your language. However, basic operators like addition, subtraction, multiplication are allowed. Please take into consideration the floating precision.

Providing an algorithm for combinations(n, k), not because of it's complexity, just because it took my the majority of the interview to understand that this was the problem I was solving - it was not made very clear at all.
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Software Engineer

Interviewed at Meta

3.5
Apr 3, 2013

Providing an algorithm for combinations(n, k), not because of it's complexity, just because it took my the majority of the interview to understand that this was the problem I was solving - it was not made very clear at all.

Given a 2D array of letters, return whether a given word can be found in the grid. To make a word, you can use any adjacent character next to the character you're currently on in the word. But you cannot use the same grid index twice i.e. in a 2x2 array, you could find a 4 letter word by visiting each letter once
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Software Engineer(Internship)

Interviewed at Meta

3.5
Nov 3, 2018

Given a 2D array of letters, return whether a given word can be found in the grid. To make a word, you can use any adjacent character next to the character you're currently on in the word. But you cannot use the same grid index twice i.e. in a 2x2 array, you could find a 4 letter word by visiting each letter once

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