16 Google interview questions so difficult and weird they're banned
PV•June 17, 2018 20:35
Even the best candidates sometimes have to "give up" when faced with these questions from Google.
Sometimes the hiring process of many tech giants is quite strange, with interview questions that leave even the best candidates speechless. Google is one of them. In fact, some Google interview questions are so difficult that they have been banned.
How much would you charge to clean all the windows in Seattle, USA?
Why are manhole covers round?
You must check to see if your friend Bob has your correct phone number but do not ask him directly…
How many piano tuners are there in the world?
Every man in a village of 100 married couples has cheated on his wife…
Every wife in a village would know immediately if a man other than her husband had cheated, but would not know if her husband had cheated on her.
The village had a law that forbade adultery. Any wife who had proof that her husband had been unfaithful would have to kill him that day, and the women of this village never defied the law. One day, the queen visited and announced that at least one husband had been unfaithful. What would happen?
A man pushed his car into a hotel and lost all his belongings. What happened?
How many times a day do the hands of a clock overlap?
How many vacuum cleaners are produced in the US each year?
Draw up an evacuation plan for San Francisco.
Explain the concept of “dead beef”.
If a person dials a series of numbers on the telephone, what word or phrase can be formed from the letters associated with those numbers?
You are shrunk to the height of a coin and your mass is reduced accordingly to maintain your density. You are thrown into an empty glass blender and the blade will be in motion for the next 60 seconds. What will you do?
How many golf balls can fit in a school bus?
You only break two eggs and you will enter a 100 story building…
An egg can be very hard or very fragile, meaning you can break it even if you throw it from the first floor or it can also not break the egg even if you drop it from the 100th floor.
Both eggs are identical. You need to find the highest floor of a 100-story building from which an egg can be dropped without breaking. How many drops do you need to do to find out? You can only break a maximum of 2 eggs in the process.
You have to go from A to B but you don't know if you will get there, what will you do?
Explain the concept of database in three sentences to your 8 year old nephew.
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