By strategyandbusiness.net
This is a compilation of the strangest questions personalities such as Jeff Bezos, Space X or Google’s recruiting teams have asked in job interviews
Of interest: Bill Gates announces that he will donate his entire fortune and warns ‘I will leave the list of the richest’
Jeff Bezos was asking about windows
In the process of interviewing Ann Hiatt, a Silicon Valley veteran with 12 years of experience at Google and working as an executive business partner for the former CEOs of Amazon and Yahoo, who now has her own consulting firm.
In 2002 he had an interview with Jeff Bezos in which he was only asked 2 questions. The first was:
– I’m going to do the accounts. I want you to calculate the number of windowpanes in the city of Seattle.
Question from SpaceX, Elon Musk’s company
When a hot dog expands, which way does it split and why?
This question was asked for the SpaceX Structural Analyst position, which is currently filled.
Google questions that were banned in 2009
In 2009, Lewis Lin of the Seattle office’s human resources department listed 140 questions Google asked potential employees. Some of his questions were so strange that finally the company itself prohibited asking them.
– How much should you charge to clean all the windows in Seattle?
– Why are manhole covers round?
– How many piano tuners are there in the world?
– How many times a day do the hands of the clock overlap?
– How many vacuum cleaners are manufactured annually in the United States?
– Design an evacuation plan for San Francisco.
– If a person dials a sequence of numbers on a telephone, what possible words can be formed from the letters associated with those numbers?
– Explain a database in 3 sentences to your 8-year-old nephew.
The wittiest questions at IBM
– How do you weigh an elephant if you don’t have a scale at hand?
– On the table there are 3 boxes. One of them contains only apples, another only oranges and the other one has mixed oranges and apples. The boxes have been labeled incorrectly. None of the labels actually identify what is inside the boxes. But you must open one of them and take out a fruit. How can you, just by looking at the fruit, label the boxes well?
Can read: Elon Musk, an executioner of the elites or an egotistical pragmatist?
The colleagues from AutoBild also collected some of the strangest questions heard in big tech interviews and considered that IBM could not be left out of the list.
The elephant’s question was for a software engineer vacancy, and in the second they were looking for a quality control engineer, they comment that the applicant never knew what he was expected to answer.
With information from Business Insider
We would love to give thanks to the writer of this post for this outstanding material
What do interview questions look like to work with Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk?