Yahoo!!! - Connect people to their passions

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YAHOO

Company Profile

Yahoo! was founded in 1994 by Stanford Ph.D. students David Filo and Jerry Yang. It began as a hobby and has evolved into a global brand that has changed the way people communicate with each other, conduct transactions and access, share, and create information. Today, led by an executive team that includes Chairman and CEO Terry Semel, Chief Operating Officer Dan Rosensweig, Chief Financial Officer Susan Decker, Chief Technology Officer Farzad Nazem, and Co-Founders/Chief Yahoos Jerry Yang and David Filo, Yahoo! Inc. has become the world's largest global online network of integrated services. Yahoo! is a leading Internet brand globally and the most trafficked Internet destination worldwide. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices around the globe.

Yahoo!'s mission is to connect people to their passions, their communities, and the world's knowledge. To ensure this, Yahoo! offers a broad and deep array of products and services that provide a differentiated user experience and consumer insights by leveraging connections, data, and user participation.


Placement Papers  YAHOO PATTERN - 15 DEC 2005 - BANGALORE

Yahoo! was in Our Campus (BMSCE). 40 Questions2 Tech Rounds..

1 HR Round..MCA/MTECH 7LacksBE/Btech 5Lacks70% Aggregate in Course, PERL,MYSQL,LINUX,PHP r the key skils
   neededWritten Paper include PERL/C/APACHE/UNIX COMMANDSOnly Linux/Open Source GURUS can Succeed.25
   ShortListed.Screwd on LINUX/UNIX, u need to have strong perl/Shell Script knowldge

Pattern

Few Questions: (45 min)
1. In a village in each family they give birth to children till they get a boy. IF girl child they try again. What is the ratio of boys
    to girls.

2. 2n+1 numbers in a list except for 1 num all had duplicates, how to find duplicate in O(n)

3. In 1000 wine bottles stack 10 are poisoned given 10 rats what is the minimum number of tries to find the poisoned one.
    Rat dies once it licks the poisoned wine.

4. Write 1,3,6,4 using +,-,*,/ to get 24 (no repeat of numbers)

5. Which is the DS used in dictionary mode in mobile (t9)

6. Which is DS used for chess program to predict move each and every time..

7. There are $1070 dollars how to split them into bags such that asked for any denomination from $1 to $1070 , u must b able
    to give without opening bag...


Another paper:

1. First fit issues...

2. Algorithm to partition set of numbers into two s.t. diff bw their sum is min and they hav equal num of elements

3. Prog: given Numerator & Denominator.... print 0.3333333333 as .(3)0.123123 as .(123)

Download :  http://www.itacumens.com/profiles/pp/pp_yahoo.doc