Google/Microsoft top 25 interview questions
Following is the list of top 25 questions asked last year in Google & Microsoft Interview; published by #-Link-Snipped-#:
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Let's try to answer them 😉
- What was your best McGuyver moment? Asked at Schlumberger.
- How many tennis balls are in this room and why? Asked at Yahoo.
- If you were a brick in a wall which brick would you be and why? Asked at Nestle USA
- How would you move Mount Fuji? Asked at Microsoft
- If two cars are traveling in a two lap race on a track of any length, one going 60 mph and the other going 30mph, how fast will the slower car have to go to finish at the same car to finish at the same time? Asked at Morgan Stanley.
- Are your parents disappointed with your career aspirations? Asked at Fisher Investments.
- Tell me how you would determine how many house painters there are in the United States? Asked at Acquity Group
- What should it cost to rent Central Park for commercial purposes? Asked at Bain & Co.
- If I put you in a sealed room with a phone that had no dial tone, how would you fix it? Asked at Apple.
- If you could be any animal, what would you be and why? Asked at Pacific Sunwear.
- How many hair salons are there in Japan? Asked at Boston Consulting.
- If both a taxi and a limo were priced the exact same, which one would you choose? Asked at Best Buy.
- How to measure 9 minutes using only a 4 minute and 7 minute hourglass? Asked at Bank of America.
- What are 5 uncommon uses of a brick, not including building, layering, or a paper-weight? Asked at Kaplan High Education.
- What is the probability of throwing 11 and over with 2 dices. Asked at American Airlines.
- What is your favorite food? Asked at Apple Store.
- Say you are dead- what do you think your eulogy would say about you. Asked at Nationwide.
- Given a dictionary of words, how do you calculate the anagrams for a new word? Asked at Amazon.
- How many lightbulbs are in this building? Asked at Monitor Group.
- Given a square grid of numbers, considering all the numbers at the boundary as one layer and numbers just inside as another layer and so on how would you rotate each of the layers of the numbers by a given amount. Asked at Microsoft.
- How would you sell me eggnog in Florida in the summer? Asked at Expedia.
- Develop an algorithm for finding the shortest distance between two words in a document. After the phone interview is over, take a few hours to develop a working example in C++ and send it to the manager. Asked at Google.
- Given a fleet of 50 trucks, each with a full fuel tank and a range of 100 miles, how far can you deliver a payload? You can transfer the payload from truck to truck, and you can transfer fuel from truck to truck. Extend your answer for n trucks. Asked at Palantir.
- You are in a room with 3 switches which correspond to 3 bulbs in another room and you don’t know which switch corresponds to which bulb. You can only enter the room with the bulbs once. You can NOT use any external equipment (power supplies, resistors, etc.). How do you find out which bulb corresponds to which switch? Asked at Goldman Sachs.
- If you saw someone steal a quarter. Would you report it? Asked at Amazon.
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