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There is a building with 100 floors. You
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the egg will definitely break from any

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Question #2
If you were going to redesign an ATM
machine, how would you do it?
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Question #3
How many birthday posts occur on
Facebook on a given day?
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Question #4
Do you think that Facebook should be
available to China?
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Question #5
How much do you charge to wash every
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Question #9
How do you deal with communicating less
than favorable information?
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Question #10
Youre at a casino with two dice, if you roll
a 5 you win, and get paid $10. What is
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What options do you have, nefarious or
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network you are also on (but have no
admin rights to) from hogging bandwidth
by streaming videos?
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How many Big Macs does McDonald sell
each year in the US?
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How would you build Facebook for blind
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me to spin it again and fire or pull the
trigger again. For each option, what is the
probability that youll be shot?
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Should Facebook continue to add features
or rely on 3rd party apps?
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Question #20
If you were an animal what kind would
you be and why?
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Question #21
What are you least proud of on your
resume?
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Given access to all the data Facebook
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constraint is once you rob a house you
cannot rob a house adjacent to that
house.
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Question #26
The most difficult question was the 8-hour
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fairly-involved algorithm, significant
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opportunities to get something subtly
wrong.
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25 racehorses, no stopwatch. 5 tracks.
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Youre about to get on a plane to Seattle.
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friends has a 2/3 chance of telling you the
truth and a 1/3 chance of messing with
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