A slew of alleged Google interview questions have been floating around the internet, and now we know for certain that we simply are not equipped to work for the giant who lords over the internet. Is this a written exam? Are you allowed to bring in your TI-81 calculator? Below, a few choice questions that you might be asked if you were applying for a stupid Product Manager job:
- 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!)
- How many golf balls can fit in a school bus?
- 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? [Note: We think the answer to this is you just crouch down next to the center and the blades would miss you. What do we win??]
- 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)?
Oh we've got one! You're riding the Google shuttle down to Mountain View, and someone is hogging all the Wi-Fi downloading a whole season of Battlestar Galactica. Using social skills and detective work, how do you determine who the guilty party is without making anyone cry, and how should they be punished?
