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This was subjective analytical question in first round which most of interviewees left "You are an employer. You have ten employees. Each month, each one of your ten employees gives you ten bags of gold. Each bag of gold has ten pieces of gold in it. Each piece of gold weighs one pound. One of your employees is cheating you by only putting nine pieces of gold in each of his ten bags of gold. You have a scale (not a balance, a scale), and you can only take one measurement from the scale, only one (1) reading. How can you tell which of the ten employees is cheating you by using this scale and only taking one measurement?"
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Manual Tester

Interviewed at Info Edge

3.6
Dec 18, 2012

This was subjective analytical question in first round which most of interviewees left "You are an employer. You have ten employees. Each month, each one of your ten employees gives you ten bags of gold. Each bag of gold has ten pieces of gold in it. Each piece of gold weighs one pound. One of your employees is cheating you by only putting nine pieces of gold in each of his ten bags of gold. You have a scale (not a balance, a scale), and you can only take one measurement from the scale, only one (1) reading. How can you tell which of the ten employees is cheating you by using this scale and only taking one measurement?"

Q1. What do you know by testing? Q2. Types of testing. Q3. What will you do if I give you 10 million rupees today? Q4. There are 5 packets of cigarettes. Each contains 10 cigarettes. Each cigarette weighs 10 gms. Only one packet among them has a defect and each cigarette weighs only 9 gms. You have just one chance , how will you tell which packet contains defective cigarettes?
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Developer/Tester

Interviewed at Capgemini

4.2
Mar 30, 2015

Q1. What do you know by testing? Q2. Types of testing. Q3. What will you do if I give you 10 million rupees today? Q4. There are 5 packets of cigarettes. Each contains 10 cigarettes. Each cigarette weighs 10 gms. Only one packet among them has a defect and each cigarette weighs only 9 gms. You have just one chance , how will you tell which packet contains defective cigarettes?

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