Wed 28 Feb 2007
I’ve blogged about Technical Interview Questions before. I’m on the other end of the Interview process lately: giving interviews rather than getting them. Usually I enjoy asking a mix of technical questions and brainteasers.
Today’s puzzle (actually given in an interview today): “You have two hard eggs. But the question is ‘how hard are they?’ You have a 100 story building and only the two eggs, how would you find out which is the highest floor of the building you can drop the eggs from, before they break? It could be the 1st floor but it could also be the 99th floor—you must try dropping the eggs from different floors and see what happens. Your goal is to find the answer with the least number of egg drops.”
February 28th, 2007 at 10:14 pm
I say 7, but, I used coconuts and a real building…..
–Will
March 1st, 2007 at 5:58 pm
These puzzles are getting a wee bit old. Too many people using too many of them. Guess it’s a trend.
March 2nd, 2007 at 11:57 am
My solution: push the interviewer off the 99th floor. Then, you have two intact eggs and nobody to bother you about them.
March 3rd, 2007 at 1:56 am
Why would you trade an interviewer for less than a dollars worth of eggs?
I don’t think that’s a fare trade. Did you take his wallet first?
March 3rd, 2007 at 1:57 am
..fair
it’s 1am, I’m due my typo