The Anti Pimp

Just in time for the weekend….

These are REAL questions asked by Google interviewers of candidates.  Sheesh..I thought I asked some zingers!  Have fun!!

1. How many golf balls can fit in a school bus?
2. How much should you charge to wash all of the windows in Seattle?
3. In a country in which people only want boys, every family continues tot have children until they have a boy.  If they have a girl, they have another child.  If they have a boy, they stop.  What’s the proportion of boys to girls in the country?
4. How many piano tuners are there in the entire world?
5. Why are manhole covers round.  (this is the only answer I know off the the top of my head.)
6. Design and evacuation plan for San Francisco.
7. How many times a day do a clock’s hands overlap?
8. Explain the significance of “dead beef”.
9. A man pushed his car to a hotel and lost his fortune.  What happened?
10. You need to check that your friend, Bob, has your correct phone number but you can’t ask him directly.  You must write the question on a car which and 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?
11. You are the captain of a pirate ship and your crew gets to vote on how the gold is divided up.  If fewer of the pirates agree with you, you die.  How do you recommend apportioning the gold in such a way that you a good share of the booty but still survive?
12. You have eight balls all of the same size, 7 of them weigh the same, and one of them weighs slightly more.  How can you find the ball that is heavier by using a balance and only two weighings?
13. You are given 2 eggs.  You have access to a 100 story building.  Eggs can be very hard or very fragile means ii may break if dropped from the first floor or may not break if dropped from the 100th floor.  Both eggs are identical.  You need to figure out the highest floor of a 100 story building an egg can be dropped without breaking.  The question is how many drops you need to make.  You are allowed to break 2 eggs in the process.
14. Explain a database in three sentences to your eight year old nephew.
15. You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and your mass is proportionally reduced so as to maintain your original density.  You are thrown into an empty glass blender.  The blades will start moving in 60 seconds.  What do you do?

courtesy of www.businessinsider.com