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Old 29th July 2008, 04:37 PM
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Default Re: Google Interview Questions

Q. You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and your mass is proportionally reduced so as to maintain your original density. You are then thrown into an empty glass blender. The blades will start moving in 60 seconds. What do you do?
A. I will try to get out of that EMPTY blender before the action begun.

Q. Explain a database in three sentences to your eight-year-old nephew.
A. Database is like your math's teacher who remembers names, numbers, grades of every student in your class & also teaches/helps you in solving math problems.

Q. How many gas stations would you say there are in the United States?
A. Assuming that the population of U.S is 500 miliion apx., so it should be somewhere 120 to 140 thousand, according to latest census bureau data.

Q. You have to get from point A to point B. You don’t know if you can get there. What would you do?
A. from A i'll hire a taxi/cab to reach B,making sure that he follow the authentic route. In that case taxi/cab driver should know the way to B.

Q. Imagine you have a closet full of shirts. It’s very hard to find a shirt. So what can you do to organize your shirts for easy retrieval?
A. Asumming that i don't have any T-shirt, then in that case follwing SQL query can be used.
SELECT * FROM CLOSET HAVING SLEEVES='HALF' OR 'FULL' ORDER BY SLEEVES,COLOR;
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