Google has a fabled story of asking some ridiculously out - the - box questions and brain teasers at their consultation . In fact , asreportedback in 2011 , some of the interrogation were so tough that they were banned by the company .
Lewis Lin , a career consultant who specialize in audience techniques , compiled a list containing140 questionssome of his client were asked by Google . The post they apply for include positions such as merchandise managers , software engineers , and marketing managers . Most of these questions do n’t strictly have an answer , but instead are design to screen your creative thinking and assess how you tackle the dubiousness .
Get your polished brake shoe and sweaty palms at the quick , here are some of their most obscure and slippery question :
1 . How much should you charge to wash all the window in Seattle ?
2 . Why are manhole cover around ?
3 . You need to check that your friend Bob has your correct phone phone number , but you may not necessitate him forthwith . You must drop a line the query on a card and give it to Eve who will take the card to Bob and generate the answer to you . What must you compose on the card , besides the question , to ensure that Bob can encode the message so that Eve can not record your phone routine ?
4 . How many pianoforte tuners are there in the entire world ?
5 . Every man in a village of 100 matrimonial couples has cheated on his married woman . Every married woman in the village right away knows when a man other than her hubby has cheated but does not know when her own husband has . The village has a police that does not provide for criminal conversation . Any wife who can raise that her husband is unfaithful must kill him that very twenty-four hour period . The women of the village would never disobey this law . One twenty-four hour period , the queen of the village visits and announces that at least one married man has been unfaithful . What happens ?
6 . A gentleman advertise his car to a hotel and lost his fortune . What happened ?
7 . How many times a daytime does a clock ’s bridge player overlap ?
8 . How many vacuums are made per class in the USA ?
9 . excuse the meaning of " drained beef . "
10 . If a person dials a sequence of numbers on the phone , what potential words / bowed stringed instrument can be work from the letters consociate with those numbers ?
11 . You are shrunk to the stature of a nickel note and your mass is proportionately cut so as to maintain your original density . You are then thrown into an empty glass blender . The blade will start moving in 60 seconds . What do you do ?
12 . How many golf game balls can fit in a school jitney ?
13 . Explain a database in three sentences to your 8 - yr - sure-enough nephew .
14 . You have to get from point A to show B. You do n’t know if you could get there . What would you do ?
15 . You are at a company with a friend and 10 people are present ( include you and the champion ) . Your friend makes you a wager that for every person you retrieve who has the same natal day as you , you get $ 1 ; for every person he finds who does not have the same birthday as you , he vex $ 2 . Would you take the wager ?
[ H / T : Business Insider ]
