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Within 2-3 hours write a program that reads words from a large file, counts how many times an individual word occurs and output them in the order of decreasing number of occurrences. The language doesn't matter, just negotiate the programming environment you prefer in advance.
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Software Developer

Interviewed at RBC

3.9
Mar 20, 2012

Within 2-3 hours write a program that reads words from a large file, counts how many times an individual word occurs and output them in the order of decreasing number of occurrences. The language doesn't matter, just negotiate the programming environment you prefer in advance.

Given a sequence consisting of letters and numbers, re-arrange the sequence so that the numbers come together first, while maintaining their initial order in the sequence (not allowed to use additional memory) e.g. Input : 12gh45fd3, Output : 12453ghfd
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Software Developer

Interviewed at D. E. Shaw & Co. - Investment Firm

3.8
Feb 23, 2011

Given a sequence consisting of letters and numbers, re-arrange the sequence so that the numbers come together first, while maintaining their initial order in the sequence (not allowed to use additional memory) e.g. Input : 12gh45fd3, Output : 12453ghfd

There are 4 people who want to cross a bridge. They each take 1, 2, 5 and 8 minutes. Only 2 people can cross at a time and they take as long as the slowest person. What is the fastest time you can get everyone across? Then I was asked to write the mathematical equation to determine the trade-off point between each of the 2 approaches to solving this.
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Software Developer

Interviewed at Microsoft

4
May 2, 2011

There are 4 people who want to cross a bridge. They each take 1, 2, 5 and 8 minutes. Only 2 people can cross at a time and they take as long as the slowest person. What is the fastest time you can get everyone across? Then I was asked to write the mathematical equation to determine the trade-off point between each of the 2 approaches to solving this.

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