From what questions when looking for employees refused to Google?

Sometimes the company-employer puts job seekers vacant in a very embarrassing situation. This practice is inherent even in the most successful firms. People can be asked hundreds of strange questions, most of which are rhetorical. If the person who came to the interview, it is difficult to answer, immediately he is struck out of the race of applicants. Ironically, Google (Google) has particularly high standards for its future employees. In the end, some interview questions were so ridiculous that they were simply banned. We chose the 16 most revealing examples.

Warm up

1. "How much money does it take to wash all the windows in Seattle?"

2. "Why do the hatches have round lids?"

3. "How many piano tuners are there in the world?"

Spy Games

4. "You have to find out if your friend Bob's phone number has changed. You can not ask him directly. What are your actions? "

In this situation, the employer probably waited from the applicant for the vacant seat of the deployed spyware plan. Just imagine how the competitor encrypts his question on the card and passes it to Bob through an intermediary. And you need to have a firm belief that a friend can understand the encrypted message, and the intermediary will remain in ignorance.

Logical puzzle

5. "In one village there are exactly 100 married couples, and each husband at least once betrayed his wife. Therefore, the women of this village can learn about the infidelity of another man, while the betrayal of their own husband remains a mystery to them. The situation is complicated by the fact that adultery in the settlement is officially prohibited. And for the unfaithful husbands there is a cruel punishment: the wife, who proved treason, has the authority to kill the deceiver. Once the head of the settlement declares that he has information about the change of at least one man. How will events develop in the future? "

The plot of the sci-fi movie

6. "Your body was reduced to the size of a coin and placed in a blender. The flywheel blades will start spinning in a minute. What are your actions? "

Experiences

7. "Eggs can be strong and fragile at the same time. They break when dropped from a low altitude and remain intact when falling from a skyscraper height. Find out what is the highest floor of a 100-story building, where you can throw an egg without destroying it? For experiments you are given only two of them. "

Miscellaneous

8. "How to explain to a three-year-old child what is a database?"

9. "Count how many golf balls can be squeezed into a standard school bus?"

10. "You do not know if you can get from point A to point B. What are your actions, if it is necessary to do it by all means?"

11. "A man broke a car, crashing into a hotel. For what reason did he lose his fortune? "

12. "How many times do the hands of the clock on the dial meet daily?"

13. "Do you know how many vacuum cleaners are produced annually in America?"

14. "Can you develop a detailed evacuation plan for the citizens of San Francisco?"

15. "How do you understand the term" dead beef "?

16. "Compose words from letters denoting the digital sequence in the phone number."