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Problem: Say you are playing a game where after each round there’s three options. You can either score 0,1 or 2 points. The probability of scoring 0 points is 50%, the probability of scoring 1 point is 30% and the probability of scoring 2 points is 20%. Part 1: What’s the probability of each possible score after 5 rounds? Given the probabilities of scoring each point as follows: P[0] = .5 P[1] = .3 P[2] = .2 Part 2: Give the top 10 most likely scores after N rounds. Part 3: Give the top 10 most likely scores for any probability distribution.
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Software Development Intern

Interviewed at athenahealth

4.1★
Mar 10, 2016

Problem: Say you are playing a game where after each round there’s three options. You can either score 0,1 or 2 points. The probability of scoring 0 points is 50%, the probability of scoring 1 point is 30% and the probability of scoring 2 points is 20%. Part 1: What’s the probability of each possible score after 5 rounds? Given the probabilities of scoring each point as follows: P[0] = .5 P[1] = .3 P[2] = .2 Part 2: Give the top 10 most likely scores after N rounds. Part 3: Give the top 10 most likely scores for any probability distribution.

Weird question about groups of marbles and finding the the one odd one using a double-pan balance that weighted less than the others in two tries. The interviewer told me the solution and it was not in two tries which made no sense.
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Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET)

Interviewed at Sharp HealthCare

4★
May 28, 2024

Weird question about groups of marbles and finding the the one odd one using a double-pan balance that weighted less than the others in two tries. The interviewer told me the solution and it was not in two tries which made no sense.

First Round: Tell me about yourself Will ask complete Functional testing, behavioral questions, real time scenarios API Testing, Postman questions, Asked about status codes, How will you validate one request if u get thousands of requests in body Low Priority High Severity defect Puzzle question - coins puzzle 2nd Round: I feel this was a rejection round, Which is your fav subject - (Irrespective of your choice, they will ask Science and Maths) Asked moment of inertia(explain with example), what is step down and step up transformer, how current produces to our homes, All 10th class physics concepts, Church Bells (LCM related question), and at end of 5 mins, asked about priority and severity with low priority and high severity example.
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Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET)

Interviewed at Oracle

3.5★
Feb 5, 2021

First Round: Tell me about yourself Will ask complete Functional testing, behavioral questions, real time scenarios API Testing, Postman questions, Asked about status codes, How will you validate one request if u get thousands of requests in body Low Priority High Severity defect Puzzle question - coins puzzle 2nd Round: I feel this was a rejection round, Which is your fav subject - (Irrespective of your choice, they will ask Science and Maths) Asked moment of inertia(explain with example), what is step down and step up transformer, how current produces to our homes, All 10th class physics concepts, Church Bells (LCM related question), and at end of 5 mins, asked about priority and severity with low priority and high severity example.

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