Crazy Google Job Questions

[monster]

1. How many golf balls can fit in a school bus?

We should fill it with soccer balls instead. They will cost less, the job will require less labor, and we can persuade the punters that bigger is better -and maybe even charge them more for the experience.

2. 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?

Either sit beneath the blades and enjoy the breeze, or hook the blades through my brastraps and enjoy the ride.

3. How much should you charge to wash all the windows in Seattle?

I would charge a $1000 consultation fee then pass the question on to a window cleaner. Your bill is in the mail.

4. How would you find out if a machine’s stack grows up or down in memory?

From what i remember, only bananas grow up, everything else grows down.

5. Explain a database in three sentences to your eight-year-old nephew.

It's like the lego box in the classroom. Can I get a refund on the last two sentences?

6. How many times a day does a clock’s hands overlap?

Is the clock running?

7. You have to get from point A to point B. You don’t know if you can get there. What would you do?

Call a cab.

8. Imagine you have a closet full of shirts. It’s very hard to find a shirt. So what can you do to organize your shirts for easy retrieval?

Organize shirts? Well the first step is to find shirts that feel similarly aggrieved by their working conditions. I guess they'll become easier to find because they'll always be one their union mandated coffee break..... http://www.ranknfile-ue.org/org_steps.html

9. Every man in a village of 100 married couples has cheated on his wife. Every wife in the village instantly knows when a man other than her husband has cheated, but does not know when her own husband has. The village has a law that does not allow for adultery. Any wife who can prove that her husband is unfaithful must kill him that very day. The women of the village would never disobey this law. One day, the queen of the village visits and announces that at least one husband has been unfaithful. What happens?

I sue you for sexual harrasment and discrimination during the interview.

10. 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?

50/50ish.

11. If the probability of observing a car in 30 minutes on a highway is 0.95, what is the probability of observing a car in 10 minutes (assuming constant default probability)?

Depends where you spend the 10 minutes. Now where is this highway? Or are you observing it through google earth rather than IRL?

12. If you look at a clock and the time is 3:15, what is the angle between the hour and the minute hands? (The answer to this is not zero!)

What he said

13. Four people need to cross a rickety rope bridge to get back to their camp at night. Unfortunately, they only have one flashlight and it only has enough light left for seventeen minutes. The bridge is too dangerous to cross without a flashlight, and it’s only strong enough to support two people at any given time. Each of the campers walks at a different speed. One can cross the bridge in 1 minute, another in 2 minutes, the third in 5 minutes, and the slow poke takes 10 minutes to cross. How do the campers make it across in 17 minutes?

Suggest they run rather than walk? Or put fatboy in a wheelchair.

14. You are at a party with a friend and 10 people are present including you and the friend. your friend makes you a wager that for every person you find that has the same birthday as you, you get $1; for every person he finds that does not have the same birthday as you, he gets $2. would you accept the wager?

Can we make the 8 other people my fellow nontuplets?

15. How many piano tuners are there in the entire world?

13, 421.

16. 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 weighings?

I'd ask the magic eight ball

17. You have five pirates, ranked from 5 to 1 in descending order. The top pirate has the right to propose how 100 gold coins should be divided among them. But the others get to vote on his plan, and if fewer than half agree with him, he gets killed. How should he allocate the gold in order to maximize his share but live to enjoy it? (Hint: One pirate ends up with 98 percent of the gold.)

Are any of them called Bill Gates?

[SteveDallas]

Originally Posted by monster

I sue you for sexual harrasment and discrimination during the interview.

This would be after you demonstrate that your bra straps can stand up to blender blades, right?

[monster]

Originally Posted by SteveDallas

This would be after you demonstrate that your bra straps can stand up to blender blades, right?

Oooh good point, I could sue you for discrimination for putting me in a position where it's necessary to have bra straps..... a twofer, no less