Google Interview Question for Software Engineer / Developers


Country: United States
Interview Type: In-Person




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Characters in the top row are written with straight lines, whereas those in the bottom row are written with curved lines.

- Glenn December 31, 2011 | Flag Reply
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I guess you are right .

And this pattern perfectly fits with the first 6 characters.
A E F
B C D

- Neo January 05, 2012 | Flag
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Brilliant !!

- sushant.singh1987 January 06, 2012 | Flag
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what are those unequal spaces come from?

- Leon April 20, 2012 | Flag
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seriously? This was a question in an in-person interview? This is very novel

- bp September 18, 2013 | Flag
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That's the name of my Czech friend!

- Anonymous September 18, 2013 | Flag
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b c f
a d e

One way of looking at this is by taking the numbers equivalent to these alphabets. if we replace the existing series of alphabets with the numbers equivalent to these alphabets, then we'll see something like this

8 9 11 12 13 14 20
7 10 15 16 17 18 19

there are multiple ways of looking at it, I found that given a number, the double of the number never comes in the same line, and used this logic to crack the first 6 positions. There might be other ways of looking at it.

- Naseer January 03, 2012 | Flag Reply
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c, e, and f seem to not work. they're double-values are on the same respective lines

- Anonymous January 16, 2012 | Flag
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This works following your logic:
b c e
a d f

- Anonymous March 09, 2012 | Flag
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A B C
D E F

//matches with the pattern :- ---------- down up down up, up up up up, down down down down, down up ... and so on

- Anonymous January 29, 2012 | Flag Reply
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The blanks are aligned:

--   --  --  H  I   K  L   M   N  T
--   --  --  G  J  O  P  Q   R  S

- sunny.sood86 December 31, 2011 | Flag Reply
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Is this really an in-person United States Google interview question? I was under impression that google and Microsoft has stopped asking puzzles! :-(

- AmzFAILFacebookFailMSFTFail December 31, 2011 | Flag
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A E F
B C D

- SS January 02, 2012 | Flag Reply
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could you explain the answer?

- Anonymous January 02, 2012 | Flag
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what is final soultion here

- vijay February 13, 2012 | Flag Reply
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what is final soultion here

- vijay February 13, 2012 | Flag Reply
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A E F
B C D

The letter on the first line does not have curves in them whereas the letters on the second line have some curves in them!

- amshali February 22, 2012 | Flag Reply
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I think one of the patterns here is the "not repeating double of the value" solution by Naseer, so the two lines are:
ACE HIKL...
BDE GJOP...

- ashot madatyan February 25, 2012 | Flag Reply
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You guys should read the first answer and then dare to add more answers.

- ReadItGuys February 27, 2012 | Flag Reply
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B C F
A D E

is correct answer, if we clearly observe remaining always down one is bit first letter than last one.

- kbhaskarkotha March 15, 2012 | Flag Reply
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I would win

- Jim April 12, 2012 | Flag Reply
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V W Z A D E 
U  X Y B C F

- Quan Li April 30, 2012 | Flag Reply
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the ans...
wld be

A   D    E    H    I   K   L  M   N   T
    B   C    F    G    J    O  P   Q   R   S

- shreyans June 18, 2012 | Flag Reply
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At kamla_ po. Manjhaul p- s chiria bariapur dist begusarai bihar

- Md javed 591:Com December 03, 2013 | Flag Reply
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8804301516

- Kamla - md javed manjhaul December 03, 2013 | Flag Reply
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VW YZ AB HI KL MN T
UX CD EF GJ OP QR S

- AKSHAY January 05, 2015 | Flag Reply
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I think it's just
A B C H I K L M N T
D E F G J O P Q R S
because
A -> B -> C H
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D -> E -> F -> G is similiar with

K L M N T
O P Q R S

- Anonymous December 31, 2011 | Flag Reply


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