Phone interviews usually suck
No, these question sounds dumb and maybe even insulting to some, but I see them as pretty important ones.
First, why is the manhole covers round? I don’t think there is a standard answer to that, one of them being: ‘Because the manhole is round.’
I got a question very similar to the golf balls and 777, and they wanted my whole thought process for the problem also. Also there are some type of question that are actually easy but require you to be a very good listener.
This kind of question give the interviewer a chance to see how the people they might hire how to face a difficult/unexpected/sudden/alien problem & how they react & solve it.
WTF is a 777 and why would you try to put golfballs in one?
also I wouldn’t try to move Mt Fuji it’s perfectly fine right where it is.
I saw Coraline in theaters!
IN 3-D!
Suck it SHO2.
Also I was usin Doom Beam for awhile, suck on that Justin Wong. Now I am pretty much retired. If it’s not called VS Beam Assist, everyone is sayin it wrong.
I think the point of 777 question is that they want to know how do you come up with some ideas to solve the problem instead of the actual answer, 777 is an airplane.
Ah an airplane. Hmmm. I suck at math so yea can’t answer that one but I would assume you take the dimensions of the 777 and see how much of that space the golf ball takes up and then just do the math from there. I suck at math tho so thats the best answer they would get from me.
I watched The Lord of the Dance in 3D. Second 3D movie I have seen. 3D fucking sucks.
There are many answers to the question, but I can promise you “Because it is round” is not the correct one. Vynce had the right idea. One reason is because a round cover cannot fall through. A rectangular one on the other hand, can fall through if you rotate it halfway via the x,y or z axis and then rotate it again halfway via another axis.
Questions such as golfballs fitting in a plane are to test your ability to do educated guesstimates. In engineering you need to make back of the envelope calculations to determine the feasibility of a certain plan and/or determine how much improvement making a certain change will net you. Figuring out that a plan is not going to work by doing a quick estimation is going to be a helluva lot easier to deal as opposed to implementing a plan and finding out halfway through, millions of dollars down the drain, that you overlooked something. So that’s why they ask those kind of questions. Still I find these questions gay.
Here are a sampling of other gay ones:
How Are M&M?s Made? ? And Other Weird Interview Questions From 2010
Pretty sure most people won’t want to answer these type of question while they interview, but I bet company love to ask them.
Love this one: ?There are three boxes, one contains only apples, one contains only oranges, and one contains both apples and oranges. The boxes have been incorrectly labeled such that no label identifies the actual contents of the box it labels. Opening just one box, and without looking in the box, you take out one piece of fruit. By looking at the fruit, how can you immediately label all of the boxes correctly??
yup, you need to clarify the question with the interviewer or explicitly state your assumptions yourself. its one of those things where the answer itself doesn’t matter, but how you arrived at it that does.
Valle making that money. Keeps raising the prices every week for WNF. Even with a sponsorship for em.
Top 8 stay getting paid.
Not hating though, lots of work to do that every weds.
Manhole covers are round so you can just drop them on and they’ll fit. If there were square you couldn’t really do that with how much they weigh.
Apples and oranges feel differently enough (I think) that you can just feel around to see if you feel just one or both. Since none of the labels are correct you can just put the right label on that box, the previous label on the remaining box, and you’ve done it. I think.
The two trains will not meet each other in St Louis because one if them is a model train on a railway in some dude’s basement. Therefore they cannot collide into a fireball of awesome while Bruce Willis falls into the ravine below and lives.
The apples/oranges thing is a good idea. I would imagine that if they specify that all boxes are mislabeled, then you can intentionally pick the one that has both oranges and apples on the label, find the fruit, and assume it to be the box of that fruit. E.G., it says apples/oranges, it has an apple in it, therefore it must be only apples if all boxes are mislabeled.
Ok if you like that one… here’s one that you’ll love. I’ve paraphrased it, but the actual question does involve dwarves and demons (fucking microsoft and their obsession with dwarves and demons in interviews).
There are ten dwarves being held prisoner by a demon. The demon watches SAW, gets inspired, and tells his prisoners, “lets play a little game”.
The rules are simple. The demon will line up all ten dwarves in a straight line. Each one will be facing forward and are not allowed to move at all. Then he will magically implant a gem in the back of each dwarf’s head. It will be red or green. The demon will start at the back of the line, and ask each dwarf the color of the gem implanted in the back of their own head. They must then answer either “red” or “green”. If they guess right, they live, otherwise they die. If the dwarf tries to be clever and sacrifice himself by saying anything else, such as “Hey you in front of me, you have a green gem! And the next guy has a red one! And the one after that has a green one!”, etc, then EVERYONE DIES. Keep in mind, each dwarf can only see the color of the gem of ALL the dwarves in front of him, and not the ones behind him (this is important if you want to get this question right). Again, the dwarves aren’t allowed to move about, and they can’t do stuff such as set up a fancy mirror system. They’ll all die if they try to cheat like that. All they can do is answer “red” or “green” when it is their turn.
The dwarves have some time to come up with a plan to get as many alive out as possible. Come up with a plan that can GUARANTEE freedom for the maximum possible # of dwarves.
BINGO. Because you know ALL the labels are incorrect, you can then logically infer the correct label for each one. Its a simple logic question. Logic is good in engineering. But really, I think questions relevant to the job you are applying for are better at determining how logical you are. Not silly puzzles.
I hate those microsoft “think outside the box” interview questions. They are beyond stupid. If I was to be asked one, my response would be along the lines of “look, do you want to know if I can do the job you’re hiring for or are you just going to ask me silly logic puzzles that anyone with an internet connection can find the answer to? I’m here because I want to work for your company, not so you can show me how clever you are. if my answer to your question has any bearing at all on whether or not you’re going to hire me, then we are both wasting our time.”
I don’t recommend this approach if you desperately need that job though.
yeah, always gotta ask crazy questions back if they give you a crazy question.
those ‘problems’ remind me of one of the questions that kids can answer correctly but adults get wrong:
how do you put an elephant in the fridge?
answer for people that hate this kind of stupid shit
[details=Spoiler]1. open fridge
2. place elephant in fridge
3. close fridge
the size of the elephant or fridge wasn’t specified. an adult will treat the question like it’s a creative exercise and say some stupid shit like ‘cut the elephant up into pieces’ or ‘use a steamroller’ [/details]
funny story including my college’s library.
it’s 7 floors, full of books, and right next to the water. architect did not:
calculate the added weight of the books that would be put inside before they built it- currently it sits lower than it should and may have serious foundation problems in the future because of how close to the water it is coupled with the shittiness of our soil.
FORGOT TO FACTOR IN GRADE SCHOOL SCIENCE RULE THAT WARMER AIR RISES AND PLACED ALL OF THE AIR CONDITIONING ON THE LOWER FLOORS ASSUMING IT WAS ENOUGH TO COOL THE BUILDING! the ground floor was a nice 70 degrees in an average Louisiana summer (90s to 100s outside). by the time you got to the 5 floor it was literally 120 degrees! they had to tack on stupid looking temporary air conditioners just so people working on the 7th floor wouldn’t suffer heat strokes. i think they eventually added a separate AC system on the higher floors, but if you take the stairs you still feel the heat. it’s like getting in your car on a VERY hot day.
But it looks pretty and thats all that matters.
Fuck that shit. Felt like I had Uroboros in my guts the first time.
I love those types of questions, however, if I were ever given one in an interview my mind would probably turn to mush.
In other news, it’s almost friday.
Is the distribution of red and green the same? If so, every dwarf guessing red will spare 5 of them.
…For starters.