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You have 2 jars and 50 black beads and 50 white beads. How many would you put of each color in each jar so that if a bead was randomly selected from both jars, you had the greatest chance they would match? You have to put all of the beads in the jars.
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Software Engineer II

Interviewed at Blackbaud

3.2
Sep 27, 2013

You have 2 jars and 50 black beads and 50 white beads. How many would you put of each color in each jar so that if a bead was randomly selected from both jars, you had the greatest chance they would match? You have to put all of the beads in the jars.

phone numbers: provided a phone number (654-876-0987), return all possible strings that the phone number could represent if 2 -> {A, B, C}, 3 -> {D, E, F}, and so on common substring: find the biggest common substring in 2 strings, "abcdef" "gbcdh" would return "bcd"
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Software Engineer Intern

Interviewed at Meta

3.5
Oct 11, 2012

phone numbers: provided a phone number (654-876-0987), return all possible strings that the phone number could represent if 2 -> {A, B, C}, 3 -> {D, E, F}, and so on common substring: find the biggest common substring in 2 strings, "abcdef" "gbcdh" would return "bcd"

# # sales # products # +------------------+---------+ +---------------------+---------+ # | product_id | INTEGER |>--------| product_id | INTEGER | # | store_id | INTEGER | +---<| product_class_id | INTEGER | # | customer_id | INTEGER | | | brand_name | VARCHAR | # +---<| promotion_id | INTEGER | | | product_name | VARCHAR | # | | store_sales | DECIMAL | | | is_low_fat_flg | TINYINT | # | | store_cost | DECIMAL | | | is_recyclable_flg | TINYINT | # | | units_sold | DECIMAL | | | gross_weight | DECIMAL | # | | transaction_date | DATE | | | net_weight | DECIMAL | # | +------------------+---------+ | +---------------------+---------+ # | | # | # promotions | # product_classes # | +------------------+---------+ | +---------------------+---------+ # +----| promotion_id | INTEGER | +----| product_class_id | INTEGER | # | promotion_name | VARCHAR | | product_subcategory | VARCHAR | # | media_type | VARCHAR | | product_category | VARCHAR | # | cost | DECIMAL | | product_department | VARCHAR | # | start_date | DATE | | product_family | VARCHAR | # | end_date | DATE | +---------------------+---------+ # +------------------+---------+ # */ # Question 1: # -- What percent of all products in the grocery chain's catalog # -- are both low fat and recyclable? #
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Data Engineer

Interviewed at Meta

3.5
Jun 8, 2020

# # sales # products # +------------------+---------+ +---------------------+---------+ # | product_id | INTEGER |>--------| product_id | INTEGER | # | store_id | INTEGER | +---<| product_class_id | INTEGER | # | customer_id | INTEGER | | | brand_name | VARCHAR | # +---<| promotion_id | INTEGER | | | product_name | VARCHAR | # | | store_sales | DECIMAL | | | is_low_fat_flg | TINYINT | # | | store_cost | DECIMAL | | | is_recyclable_flg | TINYINT | # | | units_sold | DECIMAL | | | gross_weight | DECIMAL | # | | transaction_date | DATE | | | net_weight | DECIMAL | # | +------------------+---------+ | +---------------------+---------+ # | | # | # promotions | # product_classes # | +------------------+---------+ | +---------------------+---------+ # +----| promotion_id | INTEGER | +----| product_class_id | INTEGER | # | promotion_name | VARCHAR | | product_subcategory | VARCHAR | # | media_type | VARCHAR | | product_category | VARCHAR | # | cost | DECIMAL | | product_department | VARCHAR | # | start_date | DATE | | product_family | VARCHAR | # | end_date | DATE | +---------------------+---------+ # +------------------+---------+ # */ # Question 1: # -- What percent of all products in the grocery chain's catalog # -- are both low fat and recyclable? #

first round - written: 3 sql and one about what will you do to improve the fastness of an insert on a huge table second round - get the players with highest streak get the employee details who has maximum members in a team. python-return the numbers which have maximum count in a list round 3: behavioral questions and 1 question on python lists. from the 2 lists get the numbers that are common , and return the numbers in the following way. [1,2,3,3,1,1,1],[1,1,2,2,3] - return [1,1,2,3]
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Data Engineer

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Apr 8, 2021

first round - written: 3 sql and one about what will you do to improve the fastness of an insert on a huge table second round - get the players with highest streak get the employee details who has maximum members in a team. python-return the numbers which have maximum count in a list round 3: behavioral questions and 1 question on python lists. from the 2 lists get the numbers that are common , and return the numbers in the following way. [1,2,3,3,1,1,1],[1,1,2,2,3] - return [1,1,2,3]

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