Google used to have really mortifying hiring practices .
It would scarce look at applicants who had n’t go to an Ivy League school , MIT , Cal Tech , or Stanford .
It also in reality used to ask executives and engineers in their mid-30s about their college GPAs .
The worst thing Google HR would do was ask applier devilishly unmanageable " brain teaser " interview questions .
Gayle Laakmann McDowell , a former Google computer software engineer and writer ofThe Google Resume , say the company has finally " cast out " most of these awful hiring practices .
Of the mind teasers , she says : " If an interviewer were to ask a candidate a brain teaser , despite the insurance , the hiring committee would likely push aside this interviewer ’s feedback and send a banknote back telling the interviewer not to ask such featherbrained questions . "
How bad were these " slaphappy questions " that Google had to outright shun them ?
Pretty risky .
Seattle problem coach Lewis Lin put together a list of140 questionshis clients were demand by Google . Here are …
How many golf balls can accommodate in a school coach ?
Job : Product Manager
How much should you charge to rinse all the windows in Seattle ?
In a country in which mass only want male child …
… every phratry continues to have tiddler until they have a boy . If they have a female child , they have another child . If they have a son , they stop . What is the proportion of boys to girlfriend in the country ?
project an voidance plan for San Francisco
Why are manhole covers round ?
Job : Software Engineer
How many piano tuners are there in the entire world ?
How many times a day does a clock ’s hands overlap ?
Explain the meaning of " deadened beef "
A man advertise his car to a hotel and lose his destiny . What occur ?
You need to check that your friend , Bob , has your correct earphone number …
… , but you may not ask him directly . You must write the question on a card which and give it to Eve who will take the card to Bob and render the answer to you . What must you write on the card , besides the interrogation , to see Bob can encode the message so that Eve can not read your phone number
You ’re the chieftain of a pirate ship …
… and your crew gets to vote on how the gold is divided up . If few than half of the pirates agree with you , you die . How do you urge apportioning the gold in such a way that you get a good share of the dirty money , but still live ?
Job : Engineering Manager
You have eight balls all of the same sizes …
… 7 of them weigh the same , and one of them weigh slightly more . How can you find the nut that is heavier by using a balance and only two weighing ?
You are give 2 eggs …
… You have access to a 100 - floor building . Eggs can be very tough or very fragile means it may break if dropped from the first story or may not even break if dropped from 100th base . Both testis are very . You need to figure out the highest floor of a 100 - storey building an egg can be drop without breaking . The question is how many drops you need to make . You are permit to break 2 ballock in the process .
Explain a database in three sentences to your eight - year - old nephew .
You are shrunk to the height of a Ni …
… and your muckle is proportionally repress so as to maintain your original density . You are then befuddle into an empty glass blender . The blades will start moving in 60 seconds . What do you do ?
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