25 Weird Interview Questions

*1. What was your best McGuyver moment? Asked at Schlumberger*

* 2. How many tennis balls are in this room and why? Asked at Yahoo*

*3. If you were a brick in a wall which brick would you be and why? Asked at
Nestle USA*

*4. How would you move Mount Fuji? Asked at Microsoft.*

*5. If two cars are traveling in a two lap race on a track of any length,
one going 60 mph and the other going 30mph, how fast will the slower car
have to go to finish at the same car to finish at the same time? Asked at
Morgan Stanley*

*6. Are your parents disappointed with your career aspirations? Asked at
Fisher Investments*

*7. Tell me how you would determine how many house painters there are in the
United States? Asked at Acquity Group*

*8. What should it cost to rent Central Park for commercial purposes? Asked
at Bain & Co.*

*9. If I put you in a sealed room with a phone that had no dial tone, how
would you fix it? Asked at Apple*

*10. If you could be any animal, what would you be and why? Asked at Pacific
Sunwear*

*11. How many hair salons are there in Japan? Asked at Boston Consulting*

*12. If both a taxi and a limo were priced the exact same, which one would
you choose? Asked at Best Buy*

*13. How to measure 9 minutes using only a 4 minute and 7 minute hourglass?
Asked at Bank of America*

*14. What are 5 uncommon uses of a brick, not including building, layering,
or a paper-weight? Asked at Kaplan High Education*

*15. What is the probability of throwing 11 and over with 2 dices Asked at
American Airlines*

*16. What is your favorite food? Asked at Apple Store*

*17. Say you are dead, what do you think your eulogy would say about you.
Asked at Nationwide*

*18. Given a dictionary of words, how do you calculate the anagrams for a
new word? Asked at Amazon*

*19. How many lightbulbs are in this building? Asked at Monitor Group*

*20. Given a square grid of numbers, considering all the numbers at the
boundary as one layer and numbers just inside as another layer and so on how
would you rotate each of the layers of the numbers by a given amount. Asked
at Microsoft*

*21. How would you sell me eggnog in Florida in the summer? Asked at Expedia
*

*22. Develop an algorithm for finding the shortest distance between two
words in a document. Take a few hours to develop a working example in C++
and send it to the interviewing manager. Asked at Google*

*23. Given a fleet of 50 trucks, each with a full fuel tank and a range of
100 miles, how far can you deliver a payload? You can transfer the payload
from truck to truck, and you can transfer fuel from truck to truck. Extend
your answer for n trucks. Asked at Palantir*

*24. You are in a room with 3 switches which correspond to 3 bulbs in
another room and you don’t know which switch corresponds to which bulb. You
can only enter the room with the bulbs once. You can NOT use any external
equipment (power supplies, resistors, etc.). How do you find out which bulb
corresponds to which switch? Asked at Goldman Sachs*

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*25. If you saw someone steal a quarter. Would you report it? Asked at
Amazon*