标题: Google 的疯狂面试题(你能答出多少) [打印本页] 作者: 西西 时间: 2009-1-24 00:57:05 标题: Google 的疯狂面试题(你能答出多少)
A friend of mine had an interview a couple weeks ago with Google Inc.He provided me a list of just some of the questions he was asked. I’veadded a few more from others I have talked to who had interviews withthe internet giant, Google, as well. See if you can answer them. Manyare open ended with several right answers, therefore I did not providethe answers.
1. How many golf balls can fit in a school bus?
2. You are shrunk to the height of a nickel andyour mass is proportionally reduced so as to maintain your originaldensity. You are then thrown into an empty glass blender. The bladeswill start moving in 60 seconds. What do you do?
3. How much should you charge to wash all the windows in Seattle?
4. How would you find out if a machine’s stack grows up or down in memory?
5. Explain a database in three sentences to your eight-year-old nephew.
6. How many times a day does a clock’s hands overlap?
7. You have to get from point A to point B. You don’t know if you can get there. What would you do?
8. Imagine you have a closet full of shirts. It’svery hard to find a shirt. So what can you do to organize your shirtsfor easy retrieval?
9. Every man in a village of 100 married coupleshas cheated on his wife. Every wife in the village instantly knows whena man other than her husband has cheated, but does not know when herown husband has. The village has a law that does not allow foradultery. Any wife who can prove that her husband is unfaithful mustkill him that very day. The women of the village would never disobeythis law. One day, the queen of the village visits and announces thatat least one husband has been unfaithful. What happens?
10. In a country in which people only want boys,every family continues to have children until they have a boy. if theyhave a girl, they have another child. if they have a boy, they stop.what is the proportion of boys to girls in the country?
11. If the probability of observing a car in 30minutes on a highway is 0.95, what is the probability of observing acar in 10 minutes (assuming constant default probability)?
12. If you look at a clock and the time is 3:15,what is the angle between the hour and the minute hands? (The answer tothis is not zero!)
13. Four people need to cross a rickety rope bridgeto get back to their camp at night. Unfortunately, they only have oneflashlight and it only has enough light left for seventeen minutes. Thebridge is too dangerous to cross without a flashlight, and it’s onlystrong enough to support two people at any given time. Each of thecampers walks at a different speed. One can cross the bridge in 1minute, another in 2 minutes, the third in 5 minutes, and the slow poketakes 10 minutes to cross. How do the campers make it across in 17minutes?
14. You are at a party with a friend and 10 peopleare present including you and the friend. your friend makes you a wagerthat for every person you find that has the same birthday as you, youget $1; for every person he finds that does not have the same birthdayas you, he gets $2. would you accept the wager?
15. How many piano tuners are there in the entire world?
16. You have eight balls all of the same size. 7 ofthem weigh the same, and one of them weighs slightly more. How can youfind the ball that is heavier by using a balance and only two weighings?
17. You have five pirates, ranked from 5 to 1 indescending order. The top pirate has the right to propose how 100 goldcoins should be divided among them. But the others get to vote on hisplan, and if fewer than half agree with him, he gets killed. How shouldhe allocate the gold in order to maximize his share but live to enjoyit? (Hint: One pirate ends up with 98 percent of the gold.)
Do you still think you have what it takes to work for Google?