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Re: The 12 Craziest Google Interview Questions

justsayin — Sat, 25 Jul 2015 00:16:56 -0000

If I was asked so much as ONE of these ridiculous questions at a job interview, I would blink at the moronic fool, then get up and leave. There are plenty of companies out there that are serious and straight-forward about hiring employees based on their merits and qualifications, without relying on childish and mentally diminutive mind games.

Re: The 12 Craziest Google Interview Questions

derp — Mon, 15 Jul 2013 23:16:44 -0000

4) isnt really that hard, reduce it to 1 pair of couple and slowly add more couples to it. This is a recursion problem and most people should be able to understand it when its increased to 3 pair of couples.

Answer is: if there are N husband cheating on their wives, then on the N+1th day, all N husbands will be executed

Re: The 12 Craziest Google Interview Questions

derp — Mon, 15 Jul 2013 22:38:22 -0000

360/4/12 well skills to read that is something a 1st grader can do

Re: The 12 Craziest Google Interview Questions

Lauren Ashley2010 — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 17:34:35 -0000

6) where did you get 7.5??? 360/4=90...and you should have learned that in 5th grade... So you are not smarter than a 5th grader.

Re: The 12 Craziest Google Interview Questions

pranav — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 23:34:55 -0000

Wow , thanks for sharing this wonderful list.

Re: The 12 Craziest Google Interview Questions

Javin Paul — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:45:41 -0000

Google has been known for its tough and weird interview questions but they do respect classics like Data Structure, Operating systems, programming and software design. here are some of my favorite google interview questions asked on software Engineer interview http://javarevisited.blogsp...

Re: The 12 Craziest Google Interview Questions

Pliskin — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:53:47 -0000

1. How many golf balls can you fit in a school bus?
Depending on the size of the golf balls, as many as you'd like until you can't fit any more.
2. How much should you charge to wash all the windows in Seattle?
The net worth of Microsoft divided by the number of windows = price per window.
3. How many piano tuners are there in the entire world?
This is a fermi paradox. To work it out requires a lot of assumptions, and I don't make assumptions.
4. Every man in a village of 100 married couples has cheated on his wife. Every wife in the village instantly knows when a man other than her husband has cheated, but does not know when her own husband has. The village has a law that does not allow for adultery. Any wife who can prove that her husband is unfaithful must kill him that very day. The women of the village would never disobey this law. One day, the queen of the village visits and announces that at least one husband has been unfaithful. What happens?
Answer 1: All the men run away, because they are all guilty.
Answer 2: Because the women don't want their husband to die, they provide proof to other wives that they slept with their husbands. Eventually, all the husbands die (except for the smart ones who already left!)
Answer 3: The unhappiest wife immediately takes it upon herself to kill her husband, as so to get a new one. All other wives are then free to keep their cheating husbands.
5. You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and your mass is proportionally reduced so as to maintain your original density. You are then thrown into an empty glass blender. The blades will start moving in 60 seconds. What do you do?
Answer 1: I'd ask the dime to give me his 10 cents, weigh in my own 5 cents, and conclude that this is a ridiculous situation.
Answer 2: Depends on how fast the blades are moving (they might be reaaaaallly slow!).
6. If you look at a clock and the time is 3:15, what is the angle between the hour and the minute hands?
There are no hands, it's digital.
7. Suppose we have N companies, and we want to eventually merge them into one big company. How many ways are there to merge?
Three: Peaceful, beneficial merger; Hostile takeover: buy out the majority of shares, become the largest stockholder, and force the company to merge in order to survive; talk to the commanding officer of the other company and suggest they'd be more combat effective if they joined forces.
8. Why are manhole covers round?
Because the sewer pipes leading to the surface are round?
9. A man pushed his car to a hotel and lost his fortune. What happened?
Answer 1: The hotel sued him for property damage.
Answer 2: The strenuous physical activity the man endured by pushing the car caused him to have a heart attack and he died.
10. Explain the significance of “dead beef.”
Answer 1: Each letter corresponds to a hexadecimal value, obviously.
Answer 2: Dead beef is significant because both my jacket and diet are made from it.
11. Design an evacuation plan for San Francisco.
Using a plethora of high grade explosives, detonate them simultaneously along the fault lines, freeing San Francisco from the rest of the plate (or submerging it... either works).
12. You have eight balls all of the same size. Seven of them weigh the same, and one of them weighs slightly more. How can you find the ball that is heavier by using a balance and only two weighings?
I would use the balance to beat the answer out of the tester who new which ball weighed more. I would then double check his answer by weighing it against two randomly selected, average weight balls.

Re: The 12 Craziest Google Interview Questions

Pietro_Provelone — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:19:07 -0000

For the blender question, If you just climbed on the blade and held on while it spins. You should be fine.

Re: The 12 Craziest Google Interview Questions

microsoft — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 06:15:11 -0000

what the f r u saying...

Re: The 12 Craziest Google Interview Questions

James — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:27:24 -0000

And for question one, they said FIT, not FILL a bus. So as many balls as you want until the bus is full. Answers like that.

Re: The 12 Craziest Google Interview Questions

James — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:23:34 -0000

I see your reasoning, but I think you've missed the point of the questions. There is no right/wrong answer, and you aren't expected to actually work any of them out (for example, they don't give you enough information to do any form of calculations for question 1). They are psychographic questions, designed to determine personality types. Take the piano tuners questions. There is no way to possibly work it out. One possible correct answer would be 'far less than the number of piano in the world'

It's to separate free-thinkers from analytic 'math-types' and determine personality traits. ie, look at this ink blot and tell me what you see

Re: The 12 Craziest Google Interview Questions

Peter — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:14:14 -0000

For the village question, wouldn't the cheating involve the wives too? No one would want to admit anything, so no one would die except the 1 husband?

Re: The 12 Craziest Google Interview Questions

fiendly — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 01:48:22 -0000

I am disliking the amount of people who are not commenting on how awesome the author's answers are.

Re: The 12 Craziest Google Interview Questions

dknight — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:29:02 -0000

Actually they could decide to kill the queen and keep the peace.

Re: The 12 Craziest Google Interview Questions

Landshark2010 — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:58:54 -0000

For question 2, i'm surprised nobody thought what I thought:
How much should you charge to wash all the windows in Seattle?

You shouldn't be washing any windows in Seattle because all it does is RAIN! The rain takes care of the windows!

Re: The 12 Craziest Google Interview Questions

allen — Mon, 03 May 2010 20:28:39 -0000

12) You Put three balls in each beam leaving two out. If they're equal then you can derive it from the two balls easily. Say if one of the sets of three balls is heavier, you take two of the three and put it on the beam. If they're equal then obviously the third one is out and if they're not, well the choice is obvious.

Re: The 12 Craziest Google Interview Questions

hitd — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:01:30 -0000

When the minute hand reaches 15, the hour hand has adanced 7.5 degree( 1/4 of angle b/w 3 and 4).

Re: The 12 Craziest Google Interview Questions

amirraffi — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 09:54:23 -0000

Ugh, most of these questions are fake / lies! People who post these lists are playing basically stupid marketing tricks. See, how it works is this: real Google / Microsoft interview questions are typically RELEVANT for the job. But, those are boring, see? No one wants to read a list of coding questions or something. So, instead, people post these lists of brain teasers that are fun and get passed around. In fact, brain teasers have been banned at both Microsoft and Google for software engineers.

Take this one: "Why are manholes covers round?" This is a classic MICROSOFT questions, which has since been BANNED at both companies. You really Google would ask this? Come on...

Fake, fake, fake. Especially for software engineers. If you want to see want Google is really asking, look at CareerCup.com or GlassDoor.com, where people who interviewed at these companies are posting their questions. You'll note the lack of stupid questions like these.

Re: The 12 Craziest Google Interview Questions

vjsharma — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:41:06 -0000

Evacuation plan for any city?
Example total population is X
so divide the city into a cricle and and make 4 equal arks in the circle .. now you have EAST, WEST, NORTH, SOUTH WINGS..Assume there are X-10 cars in city/4 so u have .25 cars per ark.. every car can carry atleast 4 persons so from every wing u can drive out 4*(x/4) from east west north south roads of the city and take them to other cities.. dont concentrate them at same point as it will become very hard for police to help a mob..

Answe B
caculate the means of transport availble
Cars, trains, airplanes, Ferrys.. multiply all of them with total carrying ability divide by population u will get the exact number that how many people can be evacuated in one go and how many trips thse modes of transport will have to make. :)

Re: The 12 Craziest Google Interview Questions

Aswin — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:43:56 -0000

9. The answer is "The guy was playing monopoly". The car is the token and he landed on someone else hotel so he had to pay rent which he couldn't afford.

Re: The 12 Craziest Google Interview Questions

Ralph — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:58:12 -0000

My question re: faithfulness - who are the men cheating with? The other women? Or all the men gay? or a combo? Cause if they are cheating with the women, then everyone's cheating - so they kill the queen and live cheatily ever after?

Re: The 12 Craziest Google Interview Questions

gorpkaiser — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:15:31 -0000

5. You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and your mass is proportionally reduced so as to maintain your original density. You are then thrown into an empty glass blender. The blades will start moving in 60 seconds. What do you do?

Your mass will decrease by length^3, but the surface area of your hands will only decrease by length^2, so you will be able to climb up the sides just like an insect.

7. Suppose we have N companies, and we want to eventually merge them into one big company. How many ways are there to merge?

We must have 2 companies merged before we can merge a 3rd company, and and we must have 3 companies merged before we can merge a 4th, etc. For the first merger, there are C(n, 2) possibilities (n combinations of 2 companies). Then there are (n - 1) companies remaining since 2 have merged into 1. Of these (n - 1) companies, we can merge 2 at a time, C(n - 1, 2). That is the number of ways for the second merger, regardless of the number of ways for the first merger, so the possibilities get multiplied. There will be (n - 1) mergers, so

total # of possibilities = C(n, 2) * C(n - 1, 2) * C(n - 2, 2) * ... * C(2, 2) = n! * (n - 1)! / 2^(n - 1)

Re: The 12 Craziest Google Interview Questions

dude — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:17:03 -0000

ass hole, testing profanity filter

Re: The 12 Craziest Google Interview Questions

Mito — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:29:03 -0000

Bingo. Nothing happens in the village.

Re: The 12 Craziest Google Interview Questions

pavan — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:11:31 -0000

Golf balls are not allowed in a school bus