Seattle Interview Coach collected 140 questions presented to their clients during job inteviews at Google. Positions applied for included engineering manager, software engineer, product manager, AdWords associate, and quantitative compensation analyst.
Some of the non-technical questions:
- 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?
- How many golf balls can fit in a school bus?
- You need to check that your friend, Bob, has your correct phone number, but you cannot ask him directly. You must write a the question on a card which and give it to Eve who will take the card to Bob and return the answer to you. What must you write on the card, besides the question, to ensure Bob can encode the message so that Eve cannot read your phone number?
- How much should you charge to wash all the windows in Seattle?
- How many piano tuners are there in the entire world?
- You're the captain of a pirate ship, and your crew gets to vote on how the gold is divided up. If fewer than half of the pirates agree with you, you die. How do you recommend apportioning the gold in such a way that you get a good share of the booty, but still survive?
- Design an evacuation plan for San Francisco.
- You have to get from point A to point B. You don’t know if you can get there. What would you do?
The folks at Silicon Valley Insider have suggested answers for some of the questions.
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