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| Top Oddball Interview Questions Of 2009 | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jan 13 2010, 08:26 AM (275 Views) | |
| big al | Jan 13 2010, 08:26 AM Post #1 |
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Top 25 Oddball Interview Questions: 1. What was your best McGuyver moment? Asked at Schlumberger. 2. How many tennis balls are in this room and why? Asked at Yahoo. 3. If you were a brick in a wall which brick would you be and why? Asked at Nestle USA. 4. How would you move Mount Fuji? Asked at Microsoft. 5. If two cars are traveling in a two lap race on a track of any length, one going 60 mph and the other going 30mph, how fast will the slower car have to go to finish at the same car to finish at the same time? Asked at Morgan Stanley. 6. Are your parents disappointed with your career aspirations? Asked at Fisher Investments. 7. Tell me how you would determine how many house painters there are in the United States? Asked at Acquity Group. 8. What should it cost to rent Central Park for commercial purposes? Asked at Bain & Co. 9. If I put you in a sealed room with a phone that had no dial tone, how would you fix it? Asked at Apple. 10. If you could be any animal, what would you be and why? Asked at Pacific Sunwear. 11. How many hair salons are there in Japan? Asked at Boston Consulting. 12. If both a taxi and a limo were priced the exact same, which one would you choose? Asked at Best Buy. 13. How to measure 9 minutes using only a 4 minute and 7 minute hourglass? Asked at Bank of America. 14. What are 5 uncommon uses of a brick, not including building, layering, or a paper-weight? Asked at Kaplan High Education. 15. What is the probability of throwing 11 and over with 2 dices? Asked at American Airlines. 16. What is your favorite food? Asked at Apple Store. 17. Say you are dead- what do you think your eulogy would say about you? Asked at Nationwide. 18. Given a dictionary of words, how do you calculate the anagrams for a new word? Asked at Amazon. 19. How many lightbulbs are in this building? Asked at Monitor Group. 20. Given a square grid of numbers, considering all the numbers at the boundary as one layer and numbers just inside as another layer and so on how would you rotate each of the layers of the numbers by a given amount? Asked at Microsoft. 21. How would you sell me eggnog in Florida in the summer? Asked at Expedia. 22. Develop an algorithm for finding the shortest distance between two words in a document. After the phone interview is over, take a few hours to develop a working example in C++ and send it to the manager. Asked at Google. 23. Given a fleet of 50 trucks, each with a full fuel tank and a range of 100 miles, how far can you deliver a payload? You can transfer the payload from truck to truck, and you can transfer fuel from truck to truck. Extend your answer for n trucks. Asked at Palantir. 24. You are in a room with 3 switches which correspond to 3 bulbs in another room and you don’t know which switch corresponds to which bulb. You can only enter the room with the bulbs once. You can NOT use any external equipment (power supplies, resistors, etc.). How do you find out which bulb corresponds to which switch? Asked at Goldman Sachs. 25. If you saw someone steal a quarter. Would you report it? Asked at Amazon. Source Big Al |
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Location: Western PA "jesu, der simcha fun der man's farlangen." -bachophile | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Jan 13 2010, 08:32 AM Post #2 |
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| Kincaid | Jan 13 2010, 01:47 PM Post #3 |
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20. Given a square grid of numbers, considering all the numbers at the boundary as one layer and numbers just inside as another layer and so on how would you rotate each of the layers of the numbers by a given amount? Asked at Microsoft. My response: I don't even know what the fvck you're asking me. 21. How would you sell me eggnog in Florida in the summer? Asked at Expedia. My response: I'd stick some ice, a little paper umbrella and double the rum in the fvcker and call it a Havana Cooler. Edited by Kincaid, Jan 13 2010, 01:48 PM.
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| ivorythumper | Jan 13 2010, 01:59 PM Post #4 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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| Phlebas | Jan 13 2010, 02:15 PM Post #5 |
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FYP Edited by Phlebas, Jan 13 2010, 02:16 PM.
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Random FML: Today, I was fired by my boss in front of my coworkers. It would have been nice if I could have left the building before they started celebrating. FML The founding of the bulk of the world's nation states post 1914 is based on self-defined nationalisms. The bulk of those national movements involve territory that was ethnically mixed. The foundation of many of those nation states involved population movements in the aftermath. When the only one that is repeatedly held up as unjust and unjustifiable is the Zionist project, the term anti-semitism may very well be appropriate. - P*D | |
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| Phlebas | Jan 13 2010, 02:18 PM Post #6 |
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Q: If you were a brick in a wall which brick would you be and why? Asked at Nestle USA. A: All in all, I'd be just another brick in the wall. |
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Random FML: Today, I was fired by my boss in front of my coworkers. It would have been nice if I could have left the building before they started celebrating. FML The founding of the bulk of the world's nation states post 1914 is based on self-defined nationalisms. The bulk of those national movements involve territory that was ethnically mixed. The foundation of many of those nation states involved population movements in the aftermath. When the only one that is repeatedly held up as unjust and unjustifiable is the Zionist project, the term anti-semitism may very well be appropriate. - P*D | |
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| Mikhailoh | Jan 13 2010, 02:31 PM Post #7 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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These are fine. What they are looking for is your ability to think, how you respond to challenge, can you estimate. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Jan 13 2010, 03:35 PM Post #8 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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Yeah, but usually such questions interviewers are most proud about aren't nearly as outside the box and off the wall as they think they are. |
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| Kincaid | Jan 13 2010, 04:33 PM Post #9 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Funny you should say that. In my first job at a large West Coast insurance company, I was given a square grid of numbers and, finding all the numbers at the boundary was one layer and the numbers just inside as another layer and so on and I had to figure out how would I rotate each of the layers of the numbers by a given amount. It was kwazy! |
| Kincaid - disgusted Republican Partisan since 2006. | |
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| Axtremus | Jan 13 2010, 04:42 PM Post #10 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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If it's a programming question, I'd tell 'em to store each "layer" of numbers in an array; then "rotation" is just a matter of changing the starting index of the array; accessing a particular element is a simple modulo calculation. All O(1) operations. |
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