A trick question on interview Bashny.Net

Tricky interview questions is particularly renowned for Google and Microsoft, but ask them, it seems, most companies that need smart people. The main thing is what they want HR-s, asking such questions - look at the way you talk like using logic. For example:

15 questions Google's interviews, in parentheses, the applicant for any position to answer this question


1. How many golf balls fit in a school bus (Product Manager)

2. How much money would you have for something to wash all the windows in Seattle (Product Manager)

3. There is a country in which the parents want only boys. If a girl is born, they continue to have children, if the boy - stop. What is the ratio of boys and girls in the country? (Product Manager)



4. How many piano tuners in the world? (Product Manager)

5. Why does the lid on manholes round? (Software engineer)

6. Develop a plan for the evacuation of San Francisco (Product Manager)

7. How many times a day "meet" the clock? (Product Manager)

8. Explain the meaning of the term "dead beef" (Software engineer)

9. A man pushed his car to a hotel and lost his fortune. What happened? (WTF?!?) (Software engineer)

10. You need to check whether your friend Bob record your phone number. But you can not ask directly. You should write a question on a card, give it to Eve, who will give a card to Bob, and you then - his answer. What should I write on the card, apart from the issue that Bob knew the phone number should be "encrypted" by Eve? (Software engineer)



11. You are the captain of a pirate ship. The team is preparing to divide the spoils. If your version is less than half of the division agrees to team kill you. How do you divide the booty, so to stay and with good Kush, and live? (Engineering Manager)

12. You have seven goals, six of one and a heavier weight. As with the two weighing find hard?

13. You have two eggs and stoetazhnoe building. Eggs can be so fragile that will break if dropped from the first floor, or so strong that not shatter when dropped from a hundredth. You need to determine the highest floor of the building, from which you can drop the eggs so that they are not broken. Question - how many times you have to drop them to tell? It is allowed to break the eggs in the course of solving the problem (Product Manager)

14. In three sentences, explain to his eight-year nephew what database (Product Manager)

15. You are reduced to the size of a nickel, your weight has decreased in proportion so as to maintain your density. You threw the empty blender after 60 seconds it will include. Your actions? (Product Manager)

The main task of these issues - to try to put people into a dead end and see how it can cope with unusual situations.

For example, a question about a school bus is necessary only to assess the human approach to solving this problem. Where will he start, will take into account how many small details in the calculation and etc.
On the issue of the windows can be answered simply - 500 rubles per box.

Question about boys and girls is quite complicated, but the right answer 50 to 50.

Question about pianos is very complicated, if we solve it only from a mathematical point of view, but if you connect your imagination and logic, you can answer the piano you need to configure 1 times a day, it takes 1 hour, 8 hours, 5 days - a total of 1 tuner 40 piano tuners :) Sledodvatelno 40 times less than the piano.

I think the logic is clear. I wonder how you would be able to answer these questions.
Those who like it - a little more now from different companies

Proctor and Gamble: Sell me an invisible pen.

Facebook: 25 horses, five tracks. Calculate the three fastest horses in the least amount of races

Citigroup: What is your strategy in table tennis?

Google: you climb the stairs. In one step, you can go 1 or 2 steps. N steps of the stairs. How many different ways can you climb?

Gryphon Scientific: How many cocktail umbrellas in the US at a time

Enterprise Rent-a-car: How are you feeling, hearing "no" from 7 out of 10 potential customers?

Towers Watson: Count how many aircraft in the sky

Lubin Lawrence: If chocolates Hershey, Godiva and Dove were human, how would you describe them?

Pottery Barn: If I were a genie that can give you the job of your dreams, no matter what you asked?

Kiewit Corp: What you played as a child?

VWR International: Think Marketing telescope to 1750, when no one knows about the orbit of the moon and so

Diageo North America: Imagine that you need to store alcohol count the unsold bottles, and the seller yelling at you, that you have failed. Your actions?

Brown & Brown Insurance: Evaluate your life on a scale from 1 to 10

Merril Lynch: Tell me your life, from kindergarten

Susquehanna International Group: 5 men of different ages come to the bar and sit down at the counter. What is the probability that they rassyadutsya in order of increasing age?