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Interview questions you wish you were never asked

Job: Recruiter at Twitter. Why should we not hire you?  

Job: Intern at Microsoft. How would you design an elevator?  

Job: QA Automation Engineer at BitTorrent. A dwarf-killing giant lines up 10 dwarfs from shortest to tallest.  Each dwarf can see all the shortest dwarfs in front of him, but cannot see the dwarfs behind himself.  The giant randomly puts a white or black hat on each dwarf. No dwarf can see their own hat. The giant tells all the dwarfs that he will ask each dwarf, starting with the tallest, for the color of his hat.  If the dwarf answers incorrectly, the giant will kill the dwarf.  Each dwarf can hear the previous answers, but cannot hear when a dwarf is killed.  The dwarves are given an opportunity to collude before the hats are distributed.  What strategy should be used to kill the fewest dwarfs, and what is the minimum number of dwarfs that can be saved with this strategy?  

Job: Associate Consultant at Microsoft. Name as many Microsoft products as you can.  

Job: Investment Intern at AIG. How do you cut a circular cake into eight equal pieces?  

Job: Operations Analyst at Goldman Sachs. How much does a Boeing 707 weigh?  

Job: Engineering Technician at Tesla Motors How would you describe a dynamometer to an 8-year-old child?  

Job: Merchandiser at PepsiCo. Do you believe in a higher power?  

Job: Senior Software Engineer at Electronic Arts. How do you compute the collision of two moving spheres?  Give me both the mathematical equations for the solution as well as an algorithmic implementation.  

Job: Product Tester at MTD Products How do you feel about working in extreme weather conditions all year round?  

Job: Google Administrative Assistant. If you were given a box of pencils, list 10 things you could do with them that are not their traditional use.  

Job: Senior Recruiting Manager at Amazon. How would you solve problems if you were from Mars?  

Job: Apple Intern. What's the most creative way you can break a clock?  Job: Sales Associate at Pacific Sunwear If you were a street sign, what would you be?  

Job: Software Development Engineer at Microsoft. A disc is spinning on a spindle, and you don't know which way. You are given a set of pins. Describe how you would use them to determine which way the disc is spinning.  

Job: Technology Analyst at Goldman Sachs. There are infinite black and white dots on a plane. Prove that the distance between one black dot and one white dot is one unit.  

Job: Business Operations Intern at Facebook. You have a bag of with 'N' number of strings. At random, you pull out a string's end.  You pull out another string end and you tie the two together.  You repeat this until there are no loose ends left to pull out of the bag.  What is the expected number of loops?  

Job: Summer Marketing Analyst at JP Morgan Chase. Think of a product or service that no one has ever thought of before, one that you think would be revolutionary for your university. How would you market it?  

Job: Product Manager at Google. You want to design a phone for deaf people — how do you do it?  

Job: Senior Software Engineer at Twitter. Is this binary tree a mirror of itself?   Job: Investment Intern at AIG How do you cut a circular cake into eight equal pieces?  Job: Operations Analyst at Goldman Sachs How much does a Boeing 707 weigh?  

Job: Engineering Technician at Tesla Motors. How would you describe a dynamometer to an 8-year-old child?  Job: Merchandiser at PepsiCo Do you believe in a higher power?  

Job: Senior Software Engineer at Electronic Arts. How do you compute the collision of two moving spheres?  Give me both the mathematical equations for the solution as well as an algorithmic implementation.  

Job: Product Tester at MTD Products. How do you feel about working in extreme weather conditions all year round?