Google's toughest job interview questions
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- Опубликовано: 20 янв 2017
- If you’re lucky enough to land a job interview at one of the best places to work in America, Google, you’ll definitely need to bring your a-game. But to pile on the interview stress even more, Google used to ask some questions that were so hard that they were eventually banned from being asked altogether.
In 2009, Lewis Lin, a job coach in Seattle, put together a list of 140 questions his clients were asked by Google. We've picked 7 of the best.
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Google ban them because these type of question don't correlate much to employees' performance according to stats.
Alex Yang Actually those questions are perfect
Obscure riddles don't correlate to job performance? I'm shocked -.-
I would think that critical thinking correlates back to a software development position. Their job is literally to use critical thinking skills to solve problems.
There's a fine line between questions that provoke out-of-the-box thinking and those simply way off. Critical thinking would be one of the most important skills in problem solving, whereas esoteric knowledge isn't. And interviewees could be competitive in a way that they are meticulous or creative or articulate among other things, but rarely can a person be all of these. Good interview questions should allow people to demonstrate their abilities and individuality, as opposed to just sounding bad-ass.
[ Just a clarification since many people are reading this, 'them' in my original comment mostly refers to brain teasers and strictly knowledge-based questions (I'm not assuming all the questions in the videos are, because my original comment was a response to the video description in an attempt to point out that 'so hard' isn't the most accurate description.) Just wanted to say questions are not banned because they are hard, but they may not be the most informative question to ask the majority of interviewees from time to time. ]
Alex Yang, yes but there's also something to be said about these difficult questions, what does the person do? Bluff? Admit they would need to think about the question for a while, etc. it's not always about providing the correct answer.
Could we possibly Google the answers during the interview
Use a third party browser to piss them off
internet explorer
Open brazzers infront of them. lol
You made my day, man!!
haha
Is Google obsessed with clocks?
slipperypete619 they believe that time is money.
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Apparently
slipperypete619 yh thats why they love O
I refuse to answer those questions, now gimmie job!
That is out of the box thinking! Hired! Because he's Batman.
go clean the toilet.
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they are tired of being billionaire's ,now they fuck with people .
They remain billionaires BECAUSE they fuck with people
how the hell can a pirate captain wash all the windows in seattle at exactly 3:15 and still lose his fortune
His fortune fell in the manhole
@@papayapenetrator2290 bahhahahahahah thats funny lmao
Because he had gone outside and played and fell on the manhole
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That last one though lol XD
Thekillerseadog Gamer walton A fortune cookie fell out the man's pocket as he was pushing.
blahh blah I was gonna say the dude was in Detroit and just got robbed. #whyidontworkforgoogle
I thought he pushed his car downhill and it crashed into the building. The repair was so costly that he lost everything.
Lmao
I thought it was that the man had pushed his car to the hotel because of a bet. If he had conpleted his task, he would lose his fortune. The fortune, though, was the name of the car and the reward would be whatever he wanted. Bam. Though i do admit that the boardwalk one was crazy out of the box thinking
lol no wonder in india we have manholes which are square
Malcolm Mathias that's what I was thinking when they asked that question.i was like " what the hell are you asking we have square manholes, come check it out in India" nothing is impossible in India
But the holes are square too over here, so it makes perfect sense. What they meant is that because the holes are circular the square covers would fall in.
ahahhaha
Yup
E50AK No, they meant that a square cover can fall through the square hole that it is sized for, because the diagonal of the square is significantly longer than any of the sides. The cover could easily fall through if it fell at an angle to the hole.
Not so for circular covers and holes, since there is no angle in which the diameters are different.
Cool and interesting questions! I don't think they should hire you if you get them right but based on your performance and answers solving the problems.
Except they only ask engineering/whiteboard coding questions from what everyone is telling me :|
if and only if you are applying for an engineering role of course (?)
Yea because they've stopped asking these questions now.
I answered them all, and im 1 year old
Aaron Buce but I guess u r too old for the job!!
Aaron Buce well did you answer them correctly?
Aaron Buce me too but I'm not even born yet
Aaron Buce I answered them all too. Incorrectly
1. Did you answer them CORRECTLY?
2. I'm impressed a 1 year old can type.
2:09 nice music edit ;)
Josh Shaffer yeah man I too noticed it
These Qs have nothing to do with Google
Nishpakch Indian They have to do with intelligent thinking, which Google wants.
Theguy Mich ... I said that this is wrongly bring related to Google's interview Qs. They never ask such silly Qs in their interviews
Nishpakch Indian Some of these questions are silly, but others are fair questions that require critical thinking and problem solving. Google probably wants smart people with good problem solving skills, so they used these as a way to test them. I think the second question was pretty decent.
Theguy Mich ...again I am saying that Google never asked such Qs. Don't know why you are associating with google
Theguy Mich agree
they don't need the correct answer they just check your confidence ...
Mad respect for the ones who passed the questions and got the job
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Mr Krabs keeps all the different ‘Krabby Patty’ orders from Spongebob and his friends living under the sea, in the back kitchen. This is so Mr Krabs can remember all of their orders for when they next come in to eat. This makes their lives a lot easier but less private since Mr.Krabs is all up in their business.
Wow! This was so impressive!:) Good job!
I bet some of the guys who refused to answer these questions eventually became the competition.
Google interviews are 45 minute interview about coding, Algorithms and software design. Technical. Solve algorithmic problems. Write code in whiteboard using programming languages C/C++/Java/Python etc. The problems asked have huge varieties.
Is it bad that I said you should make a tournament between the ship members ( who ever loses dies ) and at the final you should give 45 percent for each person and you take 10 percent of it ?
It works tho
I was asked the window washing question for my interview at Nordstrom! Pretty much just explained taking the average rate for washing windows mulitplied by average number of windows per building... also threw in a joke and said because it rains so much you don't have to wash the windows haha! Regional IT for them now ;)
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the overlapping answer is incorrect. after every 1 minute the second hand completes it rotation. so it meant it gonna meet the hour hand somewhere in the clock for sure coz hour hand as well is in the areas moving. so they will meet after every min. then answer is 120.
Isn't it funny that you can literally google these questions?
Apart from the window one those were easy.
There is much harder questions in those interviews like writing an algorithm for the money change problem or an implementation of quick sort.
Well... I won't be getting hired from Google any time soon
3 YRS ENOUGH ?
all those question is fun!! thanks for sharing^^
They should asks things you can't find on the web because then you have to think about a specific scenario and ask something related to the job
I got all the questions except for the pirate one and the boardwalk one but some of them were guesses (like the manhole question and the database question--I just said it's a machine that can store lots and lots of info for people to remember but I didn't get the last sentence lol). They're pretty interesting tbh!
I love that last one
what kind of questions are these anyway?
1. So glad I got the question about gold division correct.
2. But I don't understand the 1st one about manhole.
3. I like the question about database. Given 3 sentences to explain, he only uses 2 sentences. The guy who answers this is so smart and creative.
I got that first clock one and I'm so proud
Even if performance doesn't correlate with getting these questions right, they do give the company a sort of mystical and unique feel.
Question no.2,4,and 5 are actually asked in some entrance examinations for undergraduate programs in india.
Thesd are true questions my coworker was asked these when he interviewed by google a years back.
Where can i apply?
-Guessed 6° without calculating
-Had the 51% correct
-Had with the crossing hand 23 but was because i counted the half crossing of 0:00 because they do kinda cross in the 1th hour.
-With windows i would ask if i had monoploly and say that i would calculate the max until people would be like nah.
Love The Background Music !!!!!
Really, those were too complicated? Google, here I come!
They weren't complicated so much as irrelevant
Juiced Last I would charge a "dont get to wash a window for free" coupon.
data is a list of stuff, if this data is a rubber band, database is like a box of rubber bands where it can be arranged, taken out and lost so guard it with care
That last one remind me of those silly questions we used to ask each other as 5 year olds
Superior!
Intrusting questions with the logic
Not just square, if a manhole cover is any shape but round it can possibly fall through provided the hole is the same size and shape as the cover.
When you studied coding for 10 years, practiced each and every question on it from each possible source, prepared very well for the interview and they finally ask "David bought some butter, what could be the mass of the nearest black hole?".
The nephew one has a simpler answer.
In simple words, a database is like a cookie jar.
You buy cookies from the store and put it into the jar, when required you can take your cookies out.
This way your “cookies” stay in a safe and secure place but still can be accessed/ used at any time. ☺️
I have hered about some of the question although they are amazing
Stackoverflow: How can I concentrate for answering the questions while playing the more interesting music?
Honestly I'm not surprised they stopped using them, the data probably told them it didn't help their employees with anything. These are basically just riddles- tricks that you have to see through, and are just used to try to feel superior. Riddle solving skills can be an accessory side effect of being intelligent, but is by no means a reliable indicator... It's not real creativity in most cases, just knowing the one workaround the question wants.
seriously Google asks these questions ?? My class test is more difficult than this
Shashank Bhagwat they expect answers on the spot
Right? These barely take any time to answer. Or I guess I was a curious child and questions like "Why are manhole covers round?" and "What are databses/servers/other stuff?" (Yeah I was a nerd)
Shashank Bhagwat these are just questions in addition to the hard job related ones that require thinking and writing.
Shubhra Mishra Chill out do u think these are the only questions they ask? They also ask a lot of hard computer science or whatever questions that are related to the job they are applying for. But those questions are hard but u are expected to be able to answer those. The answer u give on the types of questions in the video are what make u stand out from the rest of applicants. A lot of times there is definite answer but its how u answer the question so they see how u think.
DanyalShams99 They probably ask other questions but these are "Google's toughest job interview questions" (video title)
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i dont get the first question,how can a square cover fall if it is placed in a wrong angle?
It's more like a riddle than a question
The answer to the pirate's question is actually incredibly fascinating and way more complicated than described here (51% is completely wrong) If you are interested in this, check out the Ted - Ed video they made about this riddle
The 2nd one is not critical. It's just a simple formula we learnt in 9th grade: 0.5×| 60H-11M |
Where, H is the hours hand & M the minutes hand
How is the clock's hands overlap questions answer not 23? Could someone explain? I feel so stupid for not figuring this one out.
Why are manhole covers round? They're not, or at least not all of them -- look around you, and you'll find plenty of rectangular manhole covers. so the question is really 'why are round manhole covers round' or 'what advantages do round manhole covers have over rectangular ones'? The reason given is just one of the advantages (least material for a hole of given area)
Did anyone notice that the animation at 3:15 is incorrect; it does not match the caption.
'go outside and play' gives you an extra scores 😂😂😂
Can someone please tell what's the music in the background.... Its amazing I'm begging help me please...
I was actually asked the question about manhole covers in a job interview. It was a job at a hardware store...
I got the second one correct :D And for the last one I guessed divorce and apparently was wrong :/
lol divorce
How are these questions in anyway shape or form related to the job.
I love this video...'Cause I like the background music...😆
There occurred a huge variation in my ego before and after the video.
Google : why do you want to join Google
Guy: can't afford iPhone
Thanx for the video..
23x overlap not 22, but you probably don't count midnight because you don't know which side to put it, but it is still there.
How many times a clock's hands question overlap in a day is wrong. You have to restrict the domain to exclude 0:00, if this isn't done, the correct answer is 23. If 0:00 (same as 24:00) is excluded from the domain of inputs, than the answer is 22. The question is the problem, not the answer.
Ah we have google. We can google these answers simple. 😂
Is really that clock turns 22 tmies a Day? In slow-mo it seems like the numbers arent matching with clock exacly
Just answer google it to everyone 😂
ok,that question especially the first two is not that hard. The server explanation,while not useful in this case since you're not employed as a communicator is not that hard. That pirate thingy is probably removed because it incentivise bad leadership practice.the window thingy is stupid since you don't get to collect data and the last one i'm still confused
the point is that it's not banned from being hard but it's probably banned because it's too easy or it's not correlated to the job
hows overlapping ans 22 anf not 24
It takes 60 mins for the minute hand to do one full rotation, but by that time, the hour hand is at the 1hr mark, so ~5 mins later, they will overlap. 65 mins per hour, divide 24hrs by 65 mins = ~22 times.
I feel immensely stupid now, but thanks
ASD I'm stupid, that one made no sense to me lol
Imagine hour needle and minute needle started at 12'o clock. For a minute needle to come to do full rotation it takes 60 minutes or one hour.
In that time hour needle moved from 12 to next number marked which is 1'o clock, that is 5 mins from 12 to 1'o clock on a clock.
Both needles passed each other hence at 65 mins, 60 mins moved by minute needle, 5 mins moved by hour needle.
24/65=22.
24 hrs*60 min=1440 mins in a day.
Both units should be in minutes for next step.
1440/65 min= 22.15 times needles cross each other.
Google should have people like you
“He landed on boardwalk” shows car on park place
why is your font size so big? I literally couldn't read it when viewing this in fullscreen
Best answer: "Wait, let me Google that!"
there are TEDed videos on two of these questions
Asks question, me: hold on I got something important looks up answer
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they ask theese questions to check that the person who is giving interview has ability to constantly stand at his or her point .... and to check your confidence..... sometimes they also ask what is color of wall behind you (and remember you can't look back if you looked back then you will be out of interview) THEY DON'T NEED THE CORRECT ANSWER THEY JUST SEE'S YOUR CONFIDENCE ..
Anyway only stupid people would ask those shits.
Bryan Entac nice try but the correct answer is
.... because we have the biggest toilet in the world and the name of that toilet is Pakistan .. since 1947 we are using their streets as toilets... btw its looking like you are Hungry ... 😂
Wow. you cross borders just to shit? great feat on holding that dump eh?
and please check on your grammar on your last sentence. you make tech service look bad with that sentence structure of yours.
Bryan Entac english is not my first language it's not even my second but i know some another better languages than you ..👍
There is 10 degrees not 7.5. One minute is 4 degrees and the little pointer goes a quarter between 3 and 4, which is 2.5 minutes, that makes the difference 10 degrees between the two.
You have 9 marbles and 8 weigh the same. What are the fewest number of steps to find the 9th marble? (You are given the 9 marbles and a two sided scale.)
Can someone explain the 22 times on the clock thing? It still doesn't make sense
It rains like every day in Seattle.
how r these ques related to the job ?
Now, what is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
Ok let me Bing all those questions.
3:15's one is so easy
thisaccountisfake video is 2:30 long bud
he was talking about the clock question
SigmaSixSoftware thank you
I thought he was joking just like what chris understood...
I considered the pirate question as simple, I might have got the nephew question. The car "question" I do not take seriously. In Germany there are squared "manholes" and none cares...
can't believe I got the second one right with some math going on in my head which certainly I didn't understand.
tks for useful video
the manhole and 3:15 angle question seem like pretty simple questions for the type of person Google would be interviewing. I got both of them and there's no way in hell i'm smart enough to work at Google.
A Database is like your toy chest, Billy. You put your toys inside of them to keep safe. You can also open them to play with your toys later on, like right now!
google has seen all the questions, so now they can ask the questions
HOLY SHIT THESE ARE GOOD SHIT MAN LIKE THEY SHOULD KEEP THESE QUESTIONS OMFG
That second one didn't seem too hard imo and seems like the sort of thing they would normally ask at their interviews.
1 ) Manhole covers are round because covers are made up of concrete and they are easy to move from one place to another by just rolling from one hand . 😉
That's what I thought 😊
Thanks Google for giving me an aneurism.
What did they want to find out with these questions?
Why is the clock answer not 23? Also, the sewer cap question originated at Microsoft.
LOL.
But,except 1,3, last were normal,and encountered at other places by me.