This is a list of (alleged) interview questions you’ll have to answer if you want a job at search engine/software developer/world domination machine Google. It’s like a nightmare version of the SATs. For example:
In a country in which people only want boys every family continues to have children until they have a boy. If they have a girl, they have another child. If they have a boy, they stop. What is the proportion of boys to girls in the country?
(I’m sure some of my smarter friends will be able to snap off the answer after two seconds of mental arithmetic. It makes my eyes cross.)
This is, so far, the only question I can answer, and I’m sure it’s only there to make people who won’t get hired feel better:
A man pushed his car to a hotel and lost his fortune. What happened?
Answers here.
(Found via The Awl.)
