Google is a dream company for many developers and managers and why not it should be. Everything about Google is classy and the food is great over there. But getting in Google means you have to face some competition and a very tough interview.
I have collected a bunch of questions which can bring your dream come true. So get ready for some odd and funny questions that will make you tinkle and also makes your brain sharper for future.
Don’t be surprised if these questions will make you feel stupid.
9 Questions the Google Can ask you in a Job Interview.
How many golf balls can fit in a school bus?
How much should you charge to wash all the windows in Seattle?
How many piano tuners are there in the entire world?
Why are manhole covers round?
A man pushed his car to a hotel and lost his fortune. What happened?
You have eight balls all of the same size…
…7 of them weigh the same, and one of them weighs slightly more. How can you find the ball that is heavier by using a balance and only two weighing’s ?
Explain a database in three sentences to your eight-year-old nephew.
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?
You are given 2 eggs…
…You have access to a 100-story building. Eggs can be very hard or very fragile means it may break if dropped from the first floor or may not even break if dropped from 100th floor. Both eggs are identical. You need to figure out the highest floor of a 100-story building an egg can be dropped without breaking. The question is how many drops you need to make. You are allowed to break 2 eggs in the process.
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I don’t work for Google, but believe it or not, these were the types of questions that I had to answer in my interview for my current job. It’s becoming a more common technique because it tests the candidate a lot more than the normal type of interviewing. You can see how smart they are and how they react under pressure.
Wow what an article Jaspal, I got a computer magazine called PC Advisor the other week and they had an article in there about landing a job at either Google, Microsoft or Apple1 wish I had read it now!
Think I will read it now! In researching content for their article they went and spoke to employees of the respective internet giants would be interesting to see if then mention in the article what you have written here dude!
Will Read it later and will get back to you! Hey you might be looking at a future employee @ Google. Now that would be cool!
All The Best
-Phillip
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thnx for the comment .. and best of luck Phillip. Future employee seems to be cool & yes the big companies now a days tend to ask such weird questions .. which can make u feel stupid.
Intersting list of questions. Thank god I never have to face these kind of questions in any interview.
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same here dude … i think i can start asking these type of questions in my company.. but i have to figure out their answers before asking
LMAO… I heard about the google’s interview but never had an idea about the questions, its really weird and damn funny, thanks for sharing the great piece of information with us I liked that!
my pleasure Mike ..
I heard before how picky Google is when it comes to choosing the workers in the company, but I thought the questions must be more technical.
It is obvious that people who think out of the box are wanted there.
One of them I had feced in my interview i.e Why Mainhole cover’s are round. Can anybody tell the answers of the question as well as others too.
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You can find the answers here
That is a bunch of weird questions for sure. It is getting more a more popular for companies to ask questions like these though, so wouldn’t surprise me if something similar could come up interviewing with google.
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Excellent brain twisters..but don’t you think such questions are just taking us slowly to a path where we’ll end our peace, happiness, and will always live in a fear?
May be I am thinking too much, but consider this – today, you are asked such questions. What attitude you will have once you fail such an interview? You will feel “dumb”. Now when you feel that way for yourself what will happen when you will have kids. You will try to give them the same ‘pressure’ from their childhood so that they can cope up with the competition. You DESTROY their best time of the life – childhood.
Now here’s even the worst part. While they are growing up, and learning from you that they need to be “smart” so that they can outrank “others”, they are becoming self obsessed in the process. They will start thinking just for themselves.
Finally a day will come when it’s a complete disaster..
Ha Ha! Too much philosophy? I bet!
Let’s just enjoy life, we have 900 months at max to live!!
DISCLAIMER: No way I am saying that you should not have the FIRE inside you. But the point is, don’t take failures too personally that you ruin your own life.
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Hi Deep
great insight & thoughts .. i feel the same way. The Pressure on kids is immense due to the competitiveness. I will also blame parents on this.. Kids should enjoy the childhood as much as they can. Nobody knows where they will land up.
If they choose to go in Google they will self realize what can they expect & there level of thinking should be like that ..
Its all about Handling Pressure & Future Plans.
this is a tricky question (How much should you charge to wash all the windows in Seattle?) and very simple answer ($10 per window.) .. hahaa
thx for your post
I just faced that egg question in my interview, though my answer was right but i feel i should have bookmarked SaveDelete before
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Wow, those are strange questions? Is there actually a right answer or do they just want to see what you do when you don’t know what to say?
very nice post, i like the immage,… ^_^
good job, very usefull
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