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They had a mix of technical and the weird type of manhole cover questions. I found the questions geared towards tripping you up. One question seemed to indicate a binary search, but that turned out to be the wrong approach. You have two XBoxes and a 100 floor building. If you drop the XBox from a floor it either shatters or it doesn't. How do you reliably find the highest floor from which you can drop your XBox? Both XBoxes can break in the process. How many trials does your approach take in the worst case?
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Programmer/Physics Simulation

Interviewed at Epic Games

3.6
22 Aug 2016

They had a mix of technical and the weird type of manhole cover questions. I found the questions geared towards tripping you up. One question seemed to indicate a binary search, but that turned out to be the wrong approach. You have two XBoxes and a 100 floor building. If you drop the XBox from a floor it either shatters or it doesn't. How do you reliably find the highest floor from which you can drop your XBox? Both XBoxes can break in the process. How many trials does your approach take in the worst case?

Asked about how to write, use, and improve simulations under different scenarios. There were three coding questions focused on processing data into a solution and emulating simple physics. Also asked questions regarding work history.
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Senior Simulation Engineer

Interviewed at Anduril

4
24 Apr 2023

Asked about how to write, use, and improve simulations under different scenarios. There were three coding questions focused on processing data into a solution and emulating simple physics. Also asked questions regarding work history.

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