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Fancy a job at Google?

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To get one you might need to know why manhole covers are round - or how many golf balls fit in a school busSeattle-based interview coach Lewis Lin recently posted a list of questions typically fired at job applicants to Google.
Here's a selection:1 Why are manhole covers round?2 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?3 How much should you charge to wash all the windows in Seattle?4 Explain a database in three sentences to your eight-year-old nephew.5 In a country in which people only want boys, every family continues to have children until they have a boy.
If they have a girl, they have another child.
If they have a boy, they stop.
What is the proportion of boys to girls in the country?6 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 is not zero!)7 How many piano tuners are there in the entire world?8 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 17 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 one minute, another in two, the third in five, and the slow poke takes 10 to cross.
How do the campers make it across in 17 minutes?9 How many golf balls can fit in a school bus?10 You're the captain of a pirate ship, and your crew gets to vote on how the gold is divided up.
If fewer than half of the pirates agree with you, you die.
How do you recommend apportioning the gold in such a way that you get a good share of the booty, but still survive?http://blog.seattleinterviewcoach.com

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lolkins wants to get google latitude, but doesn't have a fancy enough phone 7 hours ago justchristine Hey Fancy Bastards: anyone attempted to collect a list of fellow FBs using Google Wave? 10 hours ago RakeshPal In Google Chrome OS the data will be stored on Google servers, its a fancy feeling to have data centrally located, but what about privacy? 11 hours ago sgoralnick @codooaustin i use google reader but make it look more fancy with http://helvetireader.com probably other themes out there as well 12 hours ago Thefunkypigeon @inspirationguy Fancy you checking my Google rankings out ;) thanks smile 15 hours ago nimishdubey Saw Google Chrome OS. We are impressed. Neat concept and hallelujah, no fancy hardware needed from what we saw. 16 hours ago

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