Skip to main content

Some common and most frequently asked puzzles in Interviews Part-3

In this post I will include some more puzzles asked in Interviews very frequently. This is specially for the young graduates who are going to give Interviews in Campus placements.

1.  Five planes are circling near the Airport in such a way that they form pentagon. Assume each plane at the vertices of pentagon and moving. In what ways planes should move such that no planes collide with each other. What is the probability that planes doesn't collide?

2. What is the next number in the series?

 2  11  4  15  10  13  14  18 __

3. In Sahara Desert there is some random house and has One clock in the house. The clock is temperature sensitive. At night it becomes 1/2 minutes fast when it is cold and in day it becomes 1/3 slow when it is hot. We set timing of clock on 1st May. On which date the clock becomes 5 minutes faster?

4. What is the next number in series?

 1/5  5  3/6  216  6/2  64  4/4  __

 Want some more Number series arrangement puzzles?
Click Here

5. You are Travelling from Singapore at 5:00 AM to Dubai, the journey took 6 hours. Now you took 15 hrs 15 minutes travel time to reach Brazil Sao paulo. What is current time in Brazil?
Hint: Singapore is 10 hours behind Brazil and Brazil is 6 hours ahead of Dubai.

I will post the answers for this set of puzzles in my next Blog post.

Meanwhile, If you know the answers. Please let me know in comments.

 UPDATE :
Click here for Answers of above puzzles


  
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Tricky Questions or Puzzles in C ( Updated for 2026)

Updated for 2026 This article was originally written when C/C++ puzzles were commonly asked in interviews. While such language-specific puzzles are less frequent today, the problem-solving and logical reasoning skills tested here remain highly relevant for modern Software Engineering, Data Engineering, SQL, and system design interviews . Why These Puzzles Still Matter in 2026 Although most Software &   Data Engineering interviews today focus on Programming, SQL, data pipelines, cloud platforms, and system design , interviewers still care deeply about how you think . These puzzles test: Logical reasoning Edge-case handling Understanding of execution flow Ability to reason under pressure The language may change , but the thinking patterns do not . How These Skills Apply to Data Engineering Interviews The same skills tested by C/C++ puzzles appear in modern interviews as: SQL edge cases and NULL handling Data pipeline failure scenarios Incremental vs ...
23 comments
Read more

Program to uncompress a string ie a2b3c4 to aabbbcccc

Below is the program to uncompress a string #include<stdio.h> #include<conio.h> #include<stdlib.h> int main() { char str[100]="a2b3c4d8u7"; for(int i=0;str[i]!='\0';i++) { if(i%2!=0) { for(int j=0;j<atoi(&str[i]);j++) { printf("%c",str[i-1]); } } } getch(); } Want to become a Data Engineer? Check out below blog posts  1.  5 Key Skills Every Data Engineer needs in 2023 2.  How to prepare for Data Engineering Interviews 3.  Top 25 Data Engineer Questions
2 comments
Read more

Programs and Puzzles in technical interviews i faced

I have attended interview of nearly 10 companies in my campus placements and sharing their experiences with you,though i did not got selected in any of the companies but i had great experience facing their interviews and it might help you as well in preparation of interviews.Here are some of the puzzles and programs asked to me in interview in some of the good companies. 1) SAP Labs I attended sap lab online test in my college through campus placements.It had 3 sections,the first one is usual aptitude questions which i would say were little tricky to solve.The second section was Programming test in which you were provided snippet of code and you have to complete the code (See Tricky Code Snippets  ).The code are from different data structures like Binary Tree, AVL Tree etc.Then the third section had questions from Database,OS and Networks.After 2-3 hours we got the result and i was shortlisted for the nest round of interviews scheduled next day.Then the next day we had PPT of t...
4 comments
Read more