All over the world, for the last several years, the ranking of the best companies has been headed by Google. The company approaches interviews creatively and sometimes asks unexpected questions.
The selection of new employees for an innovative company is quite tough. They prepare for an interview in a few months, as for the most difficult exam.
1. How many golf balls will fit on a school bus?
Position: Product Manager
This is one of the questions asked by the company to see how the applicant seeks a solution to a problem. One of the applicants found a good answer: “I pictured a standard school bus 8 feet wide, 6 feet high and 20 feet long: these are approximate dimensions based on my observations of long traffic jams behind the school bus. That means 960 cubic feet, 1728 cubic inches to cubic feet, which means about 1.6 million cubic inches. I calculate that the volume of a golf ball is about 2.5 cubic inches (4/3 * pi * 0.85), since the radius of the ball is 0.85 inches Dividing 1.6 million by 2.5 cubic inches makes 660,000 golf balls. free space. And I rounded up the value to 500 thousand balls."
2. How much money will you spend cleaning all the windows in Seattle?
Position: Product Manager
This is one of those questions where you need to call on your ingenuity for help and give the simplest answer. We would answer: "$ 10 per window".
3. In a country where people want only boys to have children, every family continues to have children until a boy is born. If they have a girl, they have another child. If a boy, they stop. What is the ratio of boys and girls in such a country?
Position: Product Manager
The answer to this question provoked lively discussions, as a result, we came to the following decision. Imagine that there are 10 families with 10 children: 5 girls, 5 boys (10 in total). Then 5 couples with girls will give birth to five more children. Half (2, 5) will be girls, half (2, 5) will be boys. We add 2, 5 boys to the already born 5 and 2, 5 girls to the existing 5 (there are 15 children in total, of which 7, 5 are boys and 7, 5 are girls). Now 2, 5 couples who have girls need to give birth to 2, 5 children. Half (1, 25) will be boys and half (1, 25) will be girls. Add 1, 25 boys to the already existing 7, 5 and 1, 25 girls to those 7, 5. (Total children 17, 5, of which boys 8, 75 and girls - 8, 75.) And so on, adhering to the principle of 50 /50.
4. How many piano tuners are there in the world?
Position: Product Manager
Our answer would be, "As much as the market requires. Suppose a piano needs to be tuned once a week and it takes one hour, and the tuner works 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. Then 40 pianos need to be tuned every week." Our answer is one for every 40 pianos."
5. Why is the manhole cover round?
Position: software developer
Answer. So that it cannot fall inside the hatch during its installation or dismantling (the rectangular cover easily enters the hatch body diagonally).
6. Develop an evacuation plan for San Francisco
Position: Product Manager
Answer. Again, here they look at how the applicant approaches the solution of the problem. We would start our answer by asking, "What disaster is planned for today?"
7. How many times in a day do the hands of the clock coincide in one position?
Position: Product Manager
Answer. 22 times. From WikiAnswers: 00:00, 1:05, 2:11, 3:16, 4:22, 5:27, 6:33, 7:38, 8:44, 9:49, 10:55, 12:00, 13:05, 14:11, 15:16, 16:22, 17:27, 18:33, 19:38, 20:44, 21:49, 22:55
eight. Explain the meaning of the expression Dead beef (literally: dead meat)
Position: software developer
Answer. DEADBEEF is a hex value that was used for debugging in the days of large mainframes because it was very easy to find this marker in hex dumps. Most computer educated people should have seen this at least in their assembly lessons, which is why Google expects the software developer to know about it. 0xDEADBEAF (dead beef) was used by IBM RS / 6000 systems, Mac OS on a 32-bit PowerPC processor and Commodore Amiga as a magic value for debugging. On Sun Microsystem's Solaris, this meant free kernel memory. On OpenVMS running on Alpha processors, DEAD_BEEF can be seen by pressing CTRL-T.
9. The man sent his car to the hotel but failed. What happened?
Position: software developer
Answer. He got stuck on the curb. (Not nice, right?)
10. You need to check whether your friend Bob's phone number is correctly recorded and recorded at all. But you cannot ask him directly. You need to write the question on a piece of paper and give it to Eve, who will take it to Bob, and then bring back the answer from him. What should you write on a piece of paper (no direct question) so that Bob can understand the message and Eve cannot find out your phone number?
Position: software developer
Answer. Since you are only checking, ask him to call at a specific time. If he doesn't, then he doesn't have your number. Too easy? Another answer: "In this case, you need to use the checksum. Let Bob add up all the numbers in your number and write the result on the sheet, then give it back to you."
11. You are the captain of a pirate ship, and your crew is going to vote on how to divide the stolen gold. If less than half of the pirates agree with you, you will die. How do you divide the gold so that you get a good share of the loot, but still stay alive?
Position: technical manager
Answer. It is necessary to divide the loot equally between 51% of the whole team.
12. You have 8 balls of the same size. 7 of them are the same weight, and one weighs a little more than the rest. Find a ball that is heavier than the rest using a balance scale and only two weights?
Position: Product Manager
Answer. Take 6 of 8 balls and place 3 on each side of the scale. If the heavy ball is not in this group of balls, you have 2 more to put on the scales and solve the problem. If there is a heavy ball in the first group of 6 balls, take the 3 that outweighed during the first weigh-in. Of these three, put two on the scales. If one outweighs, then you've found it. If they weigh the same, then your ball is the one that you put aside.
13. You have 2 eggs and access to a 100-story building. Eggs can be either very tough or very fragile, which means they can break if dropped from the first floor or not break even if thrown from the 100th floor. Both eggs are exactly the same. You need to figure out which floor of this building will be the highest in order to keep the eggs intact when falling from it. The question is, how many tries do you have to make to figure out the highest floor? And while you can only break two eggs.
Position: Product Manager
Answer. The largest number of attempts is 14 times. Instead of breaking up the floors by 10, you need to start from the 14th, then go up 13 more floors, then 12, then 11, then 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, until you will reach the 99th. If the egg broke on the 100th floor, there would be 12 attempts (or 11 if you assume the egg would break on the 100th floor). Suppose, for example, that we found out that 49th is the highest floor where the egg did not break, then our attempts are: 14th, 27th, 39th, 50th (the egg broke on the 50th floor) plus 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48 and 49 floors - 14 attempts in total.
14. Explain what a database is in three sentences for your 8-year-old nephew to understand
Position: Product Manager
Answer. The main purpose of this question is to assess the applicant's ability to explain a complex idea in simple terms. Here's our attempt: "A database is a machine that remembers a lot of information about different things. People use it to remember that information when they need to. Let's play."
15. You have been reduced to the size of a 5 cent coin, and your mass has been proportionally reduced according to your density. You were thrown into an empty blender glass. The knives will start moving after 60 seconds. What to do?
Position: Product Manager
Answer. This question assesses the applicant's creativity. We would try to break the electric motor.
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