logic questions from my interview(see if you can answer)

Don't google or look for the answer on the web as I couldn't at my interview.
Most of the interview was on computer stuff. What is cloud computing or risc and cisc?

Here were the two logic questions I got.
#1
You have a 100 story building and two eggs. These are
especially strong eggs. There is some floor below which
the egg will not break if dropped. How many drops will it take before you find lowest floor that the egg will break?



#2
You are in a room with three switches that each control a different light fixture in another room. You cannot see from the switch room into the lamp room. Your task is to determine which switches control which light fixtures, but you may only go into the room with the lights once. How do you determine which switch controls which light?


This was the first time I had an interview like this.

 

Geezuz, weird questions. I've no idea how I'd answer the first one, but the second I'd say I'd have someone else go into the lamp room and call out to me which light was switching on.

 

Without googling . . .

Cloud computing is a form of data management that allows the user to store content and be charged by the amount of storage used, rather than paying for an entire server.

Question 1: The first floor is lowest before which the egg will not break, because if these "especially strong" eggs cannot handle the fall without breaking anyway, then it doesn't matter what happens at any higher floor.

 

By especially strong ,I mean they will not break as easily as a regular eggs so you may find that they break at the 49th floor but every floor before that floor it will not break.

 

The lightswitch one is easy.

Turn all the switches on go into the rooms to check they are all on, then switch one light off check which one goes off, then follow suit with the next 2

As to the egg I have no idea, is there part of the question missing?

Lol just read the light question properly, ha ha ha ha I cant do it LMAO!!!

 

You can only go into the room once!

 

Considering that all switches are turned on/off uniformly, that all are in the off position initially, I'm thinking more information is required for it to be possible.

You can switch all either on or off, but that doesn't solve anything. You can switch one on and the other two off (or one off and the other two on), but you can only solve for one; you can't differentiate the on/off lamps from one another, at least by entering the lamp room only once.

But I'm guessing there is an actual solution to this, correct?

 

yes there is. You are on the right track in the section bolded. That's where I was in my interview. I'll give you a clue he didn't. You can touch stuff in the room once you enter.

 

what company was this for?



and how much are they offering, because i hope whatever they intend on paying you is worth it. I didn't have to jump through these kinds of hoops where I work. They just reviewed my educational/work background, along with my long externship there and gave me the green light.

 

Id just make an egg sandwich and shut up.. happy stomach - happy girl

 

How is an externship different from an internship?

 

Externs generally dont get paid, while interns do. However, when it came time for my formal interview, they reviewed my handiwork during that period.

Basically, if you want to work somewhere, it's best to do either one, paid or not paid. That definitely built a bridge for me and gave me a network.

 

I'm gonna look into that thanks. I need to find a way into this actuary world.

 

find a way man

become a cog in the machine



seriously tho, i would look on Monster or another job site, and see if they have any openings like that. some sort of 'educational' opportunity and just do the best you can do, then apply for a job there.

 

i think saty is right on the egg...on the light switches...i would turn on the two on the outside and leave the one in the middle off...usually they follow a pattern around the room...so it should be easy to locate the one in the middle

 

I was watching 60 minutes and they give you a serious ass test before they interview you. from what I remember in the piece it is a fucked up test and many fail it.

Im not at all surprised at the kind of question he is being asked...despite the fact I never really came across that before.

I took a test for state farm and usaaa (fed job) but nothing like that

 

the ASVAB (and some other military tests..remember having to take a weird written test which you couldn't prepare for, during an rotc inter-battalion competition) contains a logic portion, where they give you a scenario and you are supposed to supply the correct response. Nothing like what came first, the chicken or the egg, but still strange as you'd expect some math or reading skills stuff.

Guess all of this falls into the 'thinking outside the box' format.

 

this was a co-op at www.lensar.com


They were paying 12/hour for at most 20 hours per week. Yea, they don't do that in the computer world. I got to get use to these questions if I am planning on working for a programming company. Those questions were asked at google and microsoft.

I saw a lot of what they did and am slowly starting to understand how the engineering and science world works.

 

Over here, the internships also don't get paid . lol so not much of a difference.
What exactly do you do for a living. I know it is in business.

 

are you serious? my makeup artists make 20+ and hour and can't even do the math on their timesheets with a calculator...much less answer those questions:smt104