that was a weird interview.
Total number of questions asked ONE
Question:
"So I’ve got this problem, last year I moved to Seattle and I was putting up Christmas lights for the first time (I'm originally from SoCal so I hadn’t done that before). I'm up on the roof putting up the lights and I attach 4 or 5 strands together. I climb down off the roof and plug them in. For some reason one strand doesn’t light up. How do I go about fixing that one strand?"
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I’m posting this question in the form that it was asked of me; if you want to try to solve it, go right ahead. If you want more information about the problem leave a comment and I will answer the question in the same way that the interviewer did.
----UPDATE TO INFORMATION
in response to Pete's question regarding how they are connected here is the answer
They are the 'old fashoned bulbs' meaning one goes out and all of the bulbs in that strand go out. In terms of how the strands are connected, they are just connected end to end, like normal christmas lights, so you have several strands like
[house]+[---strand1:ON---]+[---strand2:ON---]+[---strand3:OFF---]+[---strand4:ON---]
Posted by henry at February 26, 2004 12:48 PMare the induvidual strands wired in series or in parallel, is none of the bulbs lit up or just some of them? are the strands together in series or parallel?
Posted by: pete at February 26, 2004 11:46 PMThey are the 'old fashoned bulbs' meaning one goes out and all of the bulbs in that strand go out. In terms of how the strands are connected, they are just connected end to end, like normal christmas lights, so you have several strands like
[---strand1:ON---]+[---strand2:ON---]+[---strand3:OFF---]+[---strand4:ON---]
Those of you who actually know electrical systems can probably figure out exactly how they are wired from that.
Posted by: henry at February 27, 2004 12:46 AM