Job Interview Questions from Microsoft and Google
Techtree News Staff, Aug 16, 2008 0734 hrs IST
Tricky, funny, interesting -- some quirky brain twisters await within
Ever thought of interviewing at Google or Microsoft? Who hasn't, right? Via Techmeme comes some quirky questions that these companies have been known to ask potential candidates:
Questions by Google
1. 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?
2. In a country in which people only want boys, every family continues to have children until they have a boy. If they have a girl, they have another child. If they have a boy, they stop. What is the proportion of boys to girls in the country?
3. Describe a chicken using a programming language.
Questions by Microsoft
1. You have a bucket of jelly beans. Some are red, some are blue, and some green. With your eyes closed, pick out 2 of a like color. How many do you have to grab to be sure you have 2 of the same?
2. Pairs of primes separated by a single number are called prime pairs. Examples are 17 and 19. Prove that the number between a prime pair is always divisible by 6 (assuming both numbers in the pair are greater than 6). Now prove that there are no 'prime triples.'
3. Imagine an analog clock set to 12 o'clock. Note that the hour and minute hands overlap. How many times each day do both the hour and minute hands overlap? How would you determine the exact times of the day that this occurs?
4. Imagine a disk spinning like a record player turn table. Half of the disk is black and the other is white. Assume you have an unlimited number of color sensors. How many sensors would you have to place around the disk to determine the direction the disk is spinning? Where would they be placed?
Can you answer them? More teasers here.
Source: Royal Pingdom via Techmeme
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