Thought works placement paper

Hi friends,

 its admin here. i have personally attended the thoughtworks recuritment on january 8th 2012 on kerala(dcit angamaly, from www.shredskerala.org). The test was very much easy . as they are testing our coding skills.

Let me first tell you that i didnt got selection. i was out at coding section. :).

now about there recuitment process . they have a three step process..
1) logic accessment
2) coding section
3) tech interview , hr interview

trust me once if you sucessfully coded the second section you will surely be able to pass the third one..

on logic accessment : there was 11 questions to test our logic.
the question was so easy that just some boxes n we need to fill those boxes according to flowchart.
Here guys dont get confused. Keep calm . be cool.  all will be able to di it.

the fact here is how we able to develop our logic . all questions are of equal mark n 3rd one has 2 marks. so in total of 12 marks. the cut off was 10. they will give you a sheet (test is not online) fill up ,answer it  , gave them back. Hopefully i passed this one.
i have given the pictures of logic accessment papers here . do check this and go for test. you will surely pass.
click on paper to expaand. right click-> save image as . Best of luck folks.


2) coding section
guys, here the question asked to me was very simple . even a +2 guy can do it. but the amasing thing was they didn like IF,FOR,ELSE IF,SWITCH statements. they will check for Stucture, array, link list.

Even if you got a simple problem try to do it with structure (if you are expert in c ,c++)
in java they will see for classes. their co-ordination.
what went wrong to me was. my program was full of IF,FOR loop though i used array and structures.
the question was:

ipod inventory.There is a company which have started selling the ipods ONLINE . But they want to sell
these ipods online at best price.
i) They have ipod Inventories at Brazil and Argentina. Each of the inventory can store
only 100 ipods.
ii) ipods at Brazil are sold at 100$/unit and at Argentina they are sold at 50$/unit.
iii) after every order the stock at both brazil and argentina inventories are again back to
100 units.
iv) the no of ipods ordered should be only in multiple of 10.(i.e no of ipods ordered
shouldnt be im number like 123 etc. )
v) the order placed should be either fullfilled completely or nothing
vi) if the order is placed like 120 ipods from brazil then the remaining ipods can be
brought from the other inventory i.e.argentina.
but here shipping price of 400$ per 10 units is applied.
they have also given the 4 set of inputs and outputs which your program should produce

i) Brazil : 5
500 : 95 : 100
ii) Brazil : 50
4500 : 100 : 50
(this trick here is u first have to calculate the cost price at both brazil and
argentina..and d one which is low should be given..here argentina)
iii) Argentina : 120
7800 : 80 :20
(this was the case where i made a silly mistake...out of 120 only 100 ipods
should be sold according to the price at argentina..while reamaining 20 should
be sold at price at brazil which is 100$ + shipping charges (800$))
iv) Argentina : 250
Out of stock!!!!

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