In Glassdoor's annual review of the top 25 eccentric questions in job interviews for 2011, technology companies "give change". Although there is only one question from Google on the list, the Wall Street Journal recently analyzed the process of conducting the company interview, emphasizing that paradoxical questions are also the company's trademark.
Google, one of the most coveted jobs, lists questions ranging from a simple math puzzle such as, "Using a 4-minute hourglass, measure exactly 9 minutes without the process exceeding 9 minutes." , even in completely seemingly absurd ones, such as that “A man pushed his car into a hotel and lost his property. What happened;".
Google is not the only company whose questions "send" prospective employees, but the same tactics are followed by Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and many more.
But they all make sense, even if they sound funny or strange, since it is in them that the candidate must prove his immediacy and ingenuity, something that has nothing to do with knowledge and degrees.
So let's look at the 9 strangest questions for this year:
1. "How many people use Facebook in San Francisco at 2:30 p.m. the manufacture;" Question from Google to a candidate Vendor Relations Manager
2. "If the Germans were the tallest people in the world, how would you prove it?" Question from Hewlett-Packard to a Product Marketing Manager candidate
3. "We give you 20 bulbs that are destroyed (from a certain height) and a building with 100 floors, how can you determine the height at which the bulbs break" - Qualcomm's question to an Engineering candidate
4. "How would you cure world hunger?" - Amazon.com Question to a Software Developer candidate
5. “You are in a rowing boat, which is in a large tank full of water. You have an anchor, which you throw in the water (the chain is big enough for the anchor to lie completely at the bottom of the tank). Is the water level in the tank going up or down? " Question from Tesla Motors to a candidate Mechanical Engineer
6. "Please tell us how you spell the word diverticulitis?" Question of EMSI Engineering to a candidate Account Manager
7. “You have a bouquet of flowers. All but two are roses, all but two are daisies, and all but two are tulips. How many flowers do you have? ” Question from Epic Systems to a candidate Corporation Project Manager / Implementation Consultant
8. "How do you feel about those" jokers "in Congress?" -Question of Consolidated Electrical to a Trainee anagement candidate
9. "If you were a Microsoft Office program, what exactly would you be?" Question from Summit Racing Equipment to an Ecommerce candidate
Source: Proho.gr