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There's nothing worse than being caught off guard during a job interview.
2013-07-26
Luckily, with the help of Glassdoor's Interview Questions & Reviews section, you can experience the strangest possible interview questions of the last year — all from the safety of your chair.
This year's weirdest questions come courtesy of Apple, Goldman Sachs, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and a few others.
So why do tech companies ask these questions? The folks at BitTorrent said it wants to make sure its engineers fit into the "fun nature of the company and problem solving culture."
Trust us, none of these questions would be a breeze to answer.
If you were given a box of pencils, list 10 things you could do with them that are not their traditional use.
A Russian gangster kidnaps you. He puts two bullets in consecutive order in an empty six-round revolver, spins it, points it at your head and shoots. Click. You're still alive. He then asks you, do you want me to spin it again and fire or pull the trigger again. For each option, what is the probability that you'll be shot?
A dwarf-killing giant lines up 10 dwarfs from shortest to tallest. Each dwarf can see all the shortest dwarfs in front of him, but cannot see the dwarfs behind himself. The giant randomly puts a white or black hat on each dwarf. No dwarf can see their own hat. The giant tells all the dwarfs that he will ask each dwarf, starting with the tallest, for the color of his hat. If the dwarf answers incorrectly, the giant will kill the dwarf. Each dwarf can hear the previous answers, but cannot hear when a dwarf is killed. The dwarves are given an opportunity to collude before the hats are distributed. What strategy should be used to kill the fewest dwarfs, and what is the minimum number of dwarfs that can be saved with this strategy?
