Google was ranked as the most attractive employer in South Africa in Universum\u2019s recent 2016 Most Attractive Employer Awards.<\/p>\n
To get a job at Google is not easy, though, as the company is renowned for its\u00a0stringent interview process.<\/p>\n
Google\u2019s South African\u00a0office said it is\u00a0looking for people who are great at a lot of things, love big challenges, and welcome big changes.<\/p>\n
This raises the question: What type of interview questions will candidates face when trying to land a job at Google?<\/p>\n
Seattle job coach Lewis Lin published a list of questions from Google which his clients faced during the interview process \u2013 here are the tougher ones and their answers.<\/p>\n
A round manhole cover cannot fall through its circular opening, whereas a square manhole cover could fall in if it were inserted diagonally.<\/em><\/p>\n He was playing Monopoly. The car is his token, and when he arrives at the property with the hotel, he does not have enough money or property\u00a0to pay the rent.<\/em><\/p>\n 0xDEADBEEF (\u201cdead beef\u201d) is used by IBM RS\/6000 systems, Mac OS on 32-bit PowerPC processors, and the Commodore Amiga as a magic debug value.<\/em><\/p>\n 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 \u2013 it is read as\u00a0eighteen quintillion, four hundred and forty-six quadrillion, seven hundred and forty-four trillion, seventy-three billion, seven hundred and nine million, five hundred and fifty-one thousand, six hundred and sixteen.<\/em><\/p>\n A detailed answer can be found here<\/a><\/p>\n Divide 2.5 cubic inches into 1.6 million cubic inches and you come up with 660,000 golf balls. <\/em><\/p>\n However, since there are seats in there taking up space and also since the spherical shape of a golf ball means there will be considerable empty space between them when stacked, round down to 500,000 golf balls.<\/em><\/p>\n If Seattle consists of 10,000 city blocks with 600 windows per block, and the window washer spends five minutes per window while being paid a rate of $20 per hour, the answer would be approximately $10 million.<\/em><\/p>\n The first time the minute and hour hands overlap, the minute hand would have completed 1 lap more than the hour hand. So we have T = T\/12 + 1.<\/em><\/p>\n This implies that the first overlap happens after T = 12\/11 hours (~1:05 am). Similarly, the second time they overlap, the minute hand would have completed two more laps than the hour hand. So for N overlaps, we have T = T\/12 + N. Thus, the hands of a clock overlap 22 times a day.<\/em><\/p>\n Given the average piano owner tunes his piano once a year:\u00a0(50 weeks\/year)\u00d7(5 days\/week)\u00d7(8 hours\/day)\/(2 hours to tune a piano) = 1000 piano tunings per year per piano tuner. Now find the number of pianos in the world, and you are off to a good start.<\/em><\/p>\n f you break a stick at two points chosen uniformly, the probability of the three resulting sticks forming a triangle is 1\/4.<\/em><\/p>\n How to prepare for a job interview in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n
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