Posted on 08/05/2011 10:53:16 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows
Nobody has to tell you that it’s a rough job market. So when you do finagle a job interview, you’ll want to shine.
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Procter & Gamble: Sell me an invisible pen.
Facebook: Twenty five racehorses, no stopwatch, five tracks. Figure out the top three fastest horses in the fewest number of races.
Citigroup: What is your strategy at table tennis?
Google: You are climbing a staircase. Each time you can either take one step or two. The staircase has n steps. In how many distinct ways can you climb the staircase?
Capital One: How do you evaluate Subway’s five-foot long sub policy?
Gryphon Scientific: How many cocktail umbrellas are there in a given time in the United States?
Enterprise Rent-A-Car: Would you be okay hearing “no” from seven out of 10 customers.
Goldman Sachs: Suppose you had eight identical balls. One of them is slightly heavier and you are given a balance scale. What’s the fewest number of times you have to use the scale to find the heavier ball?
Towers Watson: Estimate how many planes are there in the sky.
Lubin Lawrence: If you could describe Hershey, Godiva and Dove chocolate as people, how would you describe them?
Pottery Barn: If I was a genie and could give you your dream job, what and where would it be?
Kiewit Corp.: What did you play with as a child?
VWR International: How would you market a telescope in 1750 when no one knows about orbits, moons etc.
Diageo North America: If you walk into a liquor store to count the unsold bottles, but the clerk is screaming at you to leave, what do you do?
Brown & Brown Insurance: How would you rate your life on a scale of 1 to 10?
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There is no correct answer. Negative infinity is not a rational number.
There’s no kill like overkill.
You are in a house with three upstairs rooms. In each of the rooms is a lightbulb in a wall socket. The switches for these three bulbs is in the basement. The switches are basic switches (Up = ON, Down = Off), but none are marked to indicate which room they go to.
Your job is to find out which switch goes to which bulb. But you only have one opportunity to go upstairs and check. There is no way to check which bulb is on from the basement. That can only be done from upstairs.
You can do anything you want to with the switches, but you only have one opportunity to go upstairs to find out what happens.
Under these circumstances, how can yuo find out which switch goes to which bulb?
btw, the answer to the Facebook question is 'one'.
2 races
Same principle, you betcha.
“Citigroup: What is your strategy at table tennis?”
I don’t play table tennis.
You are correct. Citigroup doesn’t either.
Coke a Cola running out your nose again?
1 race
I work for one of the companies mentioned. I’m not aware that the interview question has ever been asked of a candidate.
Twice. Balance three balls against three others. If they balance, then the heavier ball is among the remaining two. A second weighing of these two will reveal the heavier ball. If the weighing of the six do not balance, then weigh two of the heavier set of three. If they balance, then the third ball is the heaviest. If they do not balance, then the heavier is the one.
In any of the possibilities, it only takes two weighings.
Here’s an answer:
http://www.algebra.com/algebra/homework/word/numbers/Numbers_Word_Problems.faq.question.86891.html
That’s my answer when the kids ask me if I was at Woodstovk
Nope. Darksheare's recipe coffee. There goes another four dollar walmart tshirt, shot to hell.
You can only race 5 horses at a time.
LOL!
Wonder if they’d tell me to get lost due to my off the cuff answer?
Tie Dye T-Shirts are making a come back?
The question does not say that
That’s going to get expensive.
Soak the shirt and use SHOUT or similar immediately.
Once? I can do it in three?
4 and 4 (heavier side)
2 and 2 (heavier side)
1 and 1.
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