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Interview Question for Project Engineering Intern at Disney Parks & Resorts:
Oct 29, 2011
How many different ways can you get water from a lake at the foot of a mountain, up to the top of the mountain?
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Jan 10, 2012
Pumpit, carry it, by will of God.
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Jan 10, 2012
The easiest way would be to just pump it, but the variable costs of that can add up quickly over the long-term. The cheapest way I can think of is to create some sort of a siphon that runs from the lake, over the top of the mountain, and back down to a different spot that's lower than the lake. If you set it up right, you could drain a small amount of water at the mountain top and the siphon would still work.
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Jan 10, 2012
Jesus guys. You're interviewing for DISNEY! Use some imagination. My favorite so far is people power. Set up a huge rotating conveyor belt with small buckets on it, that dip into the lake. A person hops on at the top, and rides it down. This would be great if all the jobs were at the bottom, or if they needed t odo something else at the bottom. It would be fun too! Other ways might be to boil it yourself! dig under a section of lake and start a huge fire with a big condenser tube over it. Have the tube curly cue all the way to the top of the mountain, condense up there, then drip out as nice cool, distilled water.
Use your imagination. Be creative. None of you would have been hired for this job.
Use your imagination. Be creative. None of you would have been hired for this job.
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Jan 10, 2012
It's Disney... CGI effects! The water doesn't really get there, it just looks amazing to the public.
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Jan 10, 2012
The three basic ways are as follows
1. Pull it up with suction, if the mountain isn't too high
2. Pump it up from the bottom
3. Carry it up
But the number of ways to implement these three basic methods is unlimited.
1. Pull it up with suction, if the mountain isn't too high
2. Pump it up from the bottom
3. Carry it up
But the number of ways to implement these three basic methods is unlimited.
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Jan 10, 2012
Grab those buckets. Miss Disney is at it again....
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Jan 10, 2012
Me: There are just too many ways to count, but If I were on the project, it would be the first one on my list that works.
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Jan 10, 2012
Two.
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Jan 10, 2012
The future Project Engineering Intern delegates project to Mickey, Minnie and Donald, who team up with IT and the Web departments to source their top talent. The end result: the SME's create an amazing interactive solution engaging the end user to figure out different options. Kudos for the special effects guys, says the Project Engineering Intern, who decided to work smarter not harder. He spent his time gaining valuable experience at Disney. The interviewer is now a Disney alumni as a result of asking vague interview questions. If you really think about it, the possibilities are endless.
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Jan 10, 2012
Start a fire, the forest service will do it for you.
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Jan 10, 2012
Id say off the top of my head around 9 million, but my favorite method would be to freeze it, take a third of the water on a one way jet to Agrabad and on the way, over the summit, drop off the load and that pesky tucan Gilbert Godfrey. Another third goes right into the cannon. The final third is cut in two, the first half is made into sno-cones and distributed to children going to the top of the mountain to see the Lion King exhibit on the ski lift, the remaining ice is placed in 8 oz. blue mason jars and hand carried by the seven dwarves second cousins (on the maternal side).
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Jan 10, 2012
I would borrow the sorcerer's hat, find all the brooms he left laying around and reanimate them to carry buckets of water up the mountain. It would be magical!
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Jan 10, 2012
Tell all the Disney cast members that there is a kegger at the top of the mountain, but the cover charge is a bucket of water from the lake.
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Jan 11, 2012
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Jan 11, 2012
Water can be in three forms, liquid, gas (vapor) or solid (ice). Any number of ways for each form as can be devised, but basic answer is 3 ways, in liquid form, in vapor form or in solid form.
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Jan 14, 2012
The question was "how many different ways", not how. The answer is 1.
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Jan 24, 2012
You could get a mouthful of water and then hike up the mountain and spit it out.
You could drink as much water as you could and then hike up the mountain. You'd be sweating a lot by the time you got there and you'd probably need to pee by then.
I like altaholic's idea. You could always set up a fan that blows air into a tube which contains water from the lake and then blows the moist air to the top of the mountain. Combine that with Lex's idea of condensing it at the top of the mountain.
I liked Lex's other idea of the conveyor belt. You could throw rocks down the conveyor belt and use the power generated to pull the water to the top. Over time the mountain would get shorter and you wouldn't have to move either rocks or water as far.
You could drink as much water as you could and then hike up the mountain. You'd be sweating a lot by the time you got there and you'd probably need to pee by then.
I like altaholic's idea. You could always set up a fan that blows air into a tube which contains water from the lake and then blows the moist air to the top of the mountain. Combine that with Lex's idea of condensing it at the top of the mountain.
I liked Lex's other idea of the conveyor belt. You could throw rocks down the conveyor belt and use the power generated to pull the water to the top. Over time the mountain would get shorter and you wouldn't have to move either rocks or water as far.
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May 8, 2012
thru motor pump or thru carryng with bucket
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