Sometimes the hiring drill of even the most successful companies can experience instantly wonky .
There can be strange audience questions that seem to have no answers , and standards that will knock candidates out of the race right off the start line .
Google used to be a big example of this , with in high spirits standards and head - scratching questions .
In fact , some of Google ’s questions were so eccentric , they were finally banned from being asked altogether .
In 2009 , Lewis Lin , a job coach in Seattle , put together a list of 140 questions his clients were ask by Google . We ’ve peck 16 of the wildest .
next Google employees should be grateful these questions are no longer on the table .
4 . How many piano piano tuner are there in the entire macrocosm ?
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5 . Every human beings in a village of 100 marital couples has cheated on his wife …
Every wife in the village instantly knows when a man other than her married man has cheated but does not know when her own husband has . The village has a police that does not allow for adultery . Any wife who can try out that her hubby is traitorous must wipe out him that very day . The cleaning lady of the hamlet would never disobey this jurisprudence . One day , the queen regnant of the village visits and annunciate that at least one husband has been treasonable .
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6 . A man push his railway car to a hotel and lose his fortune . What happened ?
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7 . How many time a day do a clock ’s custody intersection ?
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8 . How many vacuums are made per year in the US ?
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9 . Design an evacuation program for San Francisco .
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10 . Explain the significance of ' all in boeuf . '
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11 . If a person dials a sequence of numbers on the telephone , what possible words / strings can be make from the letters relate with those numbers ?
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12 . You are wither to the top of a nickel and your mass is proportionally reduced so as to keep your original denseness . You are then switch into an empty methamphetamine blender . The blades will start motivate in 60 seconds . What do you do ?
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13 . How many golf game balls can fit in a school day bus ?
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14 . You have two eggs and access to a 100 - story building …
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orchis can be very hard or very fragile , which means they may break if dropped from the first flooring or may not even fracture if strike down from hundredth flooring . Both eggs are identical . You want to picture out the eminent floor of a 100 - story construction an egg can be dropped without breaking . The question is how many drops you need to make . You are allowed to break two eggs in the process .
15 . You have to get from point A to point B. You do n’t know if you could get there . What would you do ?
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16 . explicate a database in three sentences to your 8 - year - one-time nephew .
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Caroline Moss contributed reporting on an earlier interlingual rendition of this clause .
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