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Saturday, October 27, 2007

Jobs and Interviews

Enough of rubbish school work.

Today is FRIDAY. Time for some break...

You know, when the end is near- The end towards graduation, which is not exactly that near, since there's still a good half a year to go...People are already looking for jobs, sending resumes, going for interviews and what have you. As for myself, I am as happy as a cranky student. Maybe i should start planning? Heeee

Came across some atypical job interview questions supposedly asked by Google (Dunno how true tt is).

"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?"

"Imagine you have a closet full of shirts. It’s very hard to find a shirt. So what can you do to organize your shirts for easy retrieval?"

I am particularly amused by some questions:

"Four people need to cross a rickety rope bridge to get back to their camp at night. Unfortunately, they only have one flashlight and it only has enough light left for seventeen minutes. The bridge is too dangerous to cross without a flashlight, and it�s only strong enough to support two people at any given time. Each of the campers walks at a different speed. One can cross the bridge in 1 minute, another in 2 minutes, the third in 5 minutes, and the slow poke takes 10 minutes to cross. How do the campers make it across in 17 minutes?"

"You have five pirates, ranked from 5 to 1 in descending order. The top pirate has the right to propose how 100 gold coins should be divided among them. But the others get to vote on his plan, and if fewer than half agree with him, he gets killed. How should he allocate the gold in order to maximize his share but live to enjoy it? (Hint: One pirate ends up with 98 percent of the gold.)"

Heeheee...Kinda reminds me of primary school days.

What does it take for a company to be that out of the box?

by xiaojia at 12:33 AM |