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Posted on 12/29/2011 6:16:52 AM PST by LibWhacker
"If Germans were the tallest people in the world, how would you prove it?"
That was the head-scratcher asked during a job interview for a product marketing post at Hewlett-Packard.
Technology firms featured heavily in this year's list of the 25 most oddball questions compiled by the US employment website Glassdoor.
Careers experts said the questions were intended to make a candidate display a thoughtful approach to problem-solving.
As well as HP's brain-acher, interviewees at other companies were asked:
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
“How would you cure world hunger?” (Amazon)
I’m guessing that “Kill all the hungry people.” would not be considered an acceptable answer.
“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?” (asked at Epic Systems).
3
One of my favorites, too.
That would be 3.
“If Germans were the tallest people in the world, how would you prove it?”
Tech job? I Figured it would be “Have you ever touched a boob without having to pay first?”
Name at least 5 reasons why manhole covers are round. (Advanced Micro Devices - AMD).
Hmmmmmm.....
and why do I not work for anyone....????
“How many people are using Facebook in San Francisco at 2.30pm on a Friday?” (Google)
It is directly proportionale to the lame number of unproductive persons in their respective time zones?....anywhere in the world....sorry, what was the x, y=z question?
“How do you feel about those jokers at Congress?” (Consolidated Electrical)
They are clowns and they need at least one more car.
“If you were a Microsoft Office program, which one would you be?” (Summit Racing Equipment)
Excel...You are kidding? Right?
“You’re in a row boat, which is in a large tank filled with water. You have an anchor on board, which you throw overboard (the chain is long enough so the anchor rests completely on the bottom of the tank). Does the water level in the tank rise or fall?” (Tesla Motors)
Displacemnt, blah, blah, blah...
“Please spell ‘diverticulitis’” (EMSI Engineering)
Uhm...D I V E R T I C U L I T I S .
“How would you cure world hunger?” (Amazon)
I would educate the masses on geo-engineering, give everyone a spade and make them partners in social agriculture for the masses.. No, wait. I’d follow William Bradford’s model: Produce or starve.
“Would Mahatma Gandhi have made a good software engineer?” No, he wuz full of Shiite(Deloitte)
“Given 20 ‘destructible’ light bulbs (which break at a certain height), and a building with 100 floors, how do you determine the height that the light bulbs break?” drop 10 from each floor and determine...Do I really need to finish this dumb question by floor which obviously after a certain point delivers a predictable number, no matter the height beyond a known average of reliable broken bulbs and at what point is that number just plain stoopid to continue calculating?(Qualcomm)
“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?” (Epic Systems).
12
I’m desperate, What did you want me to say?
Name at least 5 reasons why manhole covers are round. (Advanced Micro Devices - AMD).
Because the plural of each flower is given. “Roses” implies 2 or more, “Daisies” implies 2 or more, etc. Otherwise, you would say Rose, Daisy or Tulip.
Thus, it's impossible to fulfill the list.
Didn’t see that question but I’ll take a whack at it:
so the manhole cover doesn’t fall into its smaller hole.
makes it easier to push the manhole cover aside by rolling.
a round manhole cover, having no lateral edges, has less opportunity or ability to flip when undue weight is placed on the edge as opposed to “an edge”.
round is not necessarily as racist as square.
Captain America can immediately field a round manhole cover as a weapon if he lose his shield?
No matter how you place a round manhole cover over a hole, it will always reseat easily. not so with a square manhole cover which needs to seat exactly an turned so it fits in the square hole it cover, requiring more work than a round manhole cover and wasting man hours to complete a job.
This question is now stoopid....
I have two violets. All but two are roses/daisies/tulips.
Alternately, I have three flowers, one of each.
As with most business questions, there are multiple right answers. I'm there as a statistician, so the question is - How many do you want me to have? [Note: I'm an honest mathematician and don't play with the results, but that answer would get a laugh.]
"This is a trick question, right?"
*No respectable flower shop would call three flowers a bouquet...Next question please.
Freeper Polster1 posted a different take.
I have two violets. All but two are roses/daisies/tulips.
"Goooood niiight ding ding ding ding....Gooood night ding ding ding ding...."
Not really stupid.
1) Mancovers are heavy, easy to roll
2) They stack easily
3) Cannot fall into hole
4) Round is easy to manufacture
5) Humans are far more ‘round’ than rectangular - we fit into holes easily
6) Cannot wedge into place
7) Traffic causes them to rotate in place, thus preventing corrosion from rusting them into place
8) Easy to pry out of hole, via single hole
9) Easy to fit into hole, as they are self-centering
10) Because thermal expansion is radial - they will not cause ‘cracks’ at corners; this makes it safer as the round mounting ring is large enough to allow the round manhole cover to ride ‘up’ a few millimeters, instead of expanding and cracking concreteas would happen in another geometric shape.
Plus, those which you listed. They were looking for technical analysis; I thought this was a good tool for checking critical thinking.
“If Germans were the tallest people in the world, how would you prove it?”
Easy. Show footage of all the great German basketball stars.
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