Could You Get A Job at Google?

Can you pass the Google test?

Could you get a job with Google?

There's only one way to find out.

A fabulous blog post from Tihomir Nakov records some of the questions put to a friend seeking a job with the company.

Here they are:

1. How many golf balls can you fit in a school bus?

2. 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?

3. How much should you charge to wash all the windows in Seattle?

4. How would you find out if a machine’s stack grows up or down in memory?

5. Explain a database in three sentences to your eight-year-old nephew.

6. How many times a day does a clock’s hands overlap?

7. You have to get from point A to point B. You don’t know if you can get there. What would you do?

8. 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?

9. Every man in a village of 100 married couples has cheated on his wife. Every wife in the village instantly knows when a man other than her husband has cheated, but does not know when her own husband has. The village has a law that does not allow for adultery. Any wife who can prove that her husband is unfaithful must kill him that very day. The women of the village would never disobey this law. One day, the queen of the village visits and announces that at least one husband has been unfaithful. What happens?

10. 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?

11. If the probability of observing a car in 30 minutes on a highway is 0.95, what is the probability of observing a car in 10 minutes (assuming constant default probability)?

12. If you look at a clock and the time is 3:15, what is the angle between the hour and the minute hands? (The answer to this is not zero!)

13. Four people need to cross a rickety rope bridge to get back to their camp at night. Unfortunately, they only have one flashlight and it only has enough light left for seventeen minutes. The bridge is too dangerous to cross without a flashlight, and it’s only strong enough to support two people at any given time. Each of the campers walks at a different speed. One can cross the bridge in 1 minute, another in 2 minutes, the third in 5 minutes, and the slow poke takes 10 minutes to cross. How do the campers make it across in 17 minutes?

14. You are at a party with a friend and 10 people are present including you and the friend. your friend makes you a wager that for every person you find that has the same birthday as you, you get $1; for every person he finds that does not have the same birthday as you, he gets $2. Would you accept the wager?

15. How many piano tuners are there in the entire world?

16. You have eight balls all of the same size. 7 of them weigh the same, and one of them weighs slightly more. How can you find the ball that is heavier by using a balance and only two weighings?

17. You have five pirates, ranked from 5 to 1 in descending order. The top pirate has the right to propose how 100 gold coins should be divided among them. But the others get to vote on his plan, and if fewer than half agree with him, he gets killed. How should he allocate the gold in order to maximize his share but live to enjoy it? (Hint: One pirate ends up with 98 percent of the gold.)

One of his readers has a tilt at answering them (scroll down to Tom).

But actually I think the answer to all the questions is easier - Google them. So, for instance, you can discover the best estimate of the number of piano tuners in the world. It is made by William Poundstone who estimates it at 20,000

10 Most Amazing Temples

A great article here about the ten most amazing temples in the world. And they really are quite spectacular.

10 Most Amazing Temples

Fun with the Fire Fighters

http://view.break.com/365181 - Watch more free videos

Omnikron

Canadian + French electro hip hop. Sounds like it shouldn't work, but it does.

... as I Possibly Can

It's been one of those days where at work people keep saying to me things "we need to do this as fast as we possibly can", or "you need to fix this as fast as you possibly can". Well I've got a few requirements of that nature myself today. So here's my list of things that I want to add "as fast as I possibly can" to.

I want to get out of work
I want to go to the pub
I want to drink beer
I want to get drunk

Amazing Architectural Wonders

Architectural Wonders - HQ Wallpapers 64 Images… World on Your Desktop… Enjoy…


Architectural Wonders

Britney at the VMAs

It is truly awful. Man she's really let herself go...

Leave Britney Alone

This "man" wants you to leave Britney alone. He means it. Leave her alone otherwise he might do something - like cry more.

Iron Man trailer

The trailer for Iron Man looks great (althought it looks a little bit like some of the scenes from Team America). Please, please don't let this go the same way as Ghost Rider - especially as I just found out Nic Cage wanted to play the part of Iron man.

Iron Man Trailer

Ghost Caught on Camera

Wow, this is amazing.

Two of my Favourite Things

Cake + PHP = CakePHP

"Cake is a rapid development framework for PHP which uses commonly known design patterns like ActiveRecord, Association Data Mapping, Front Controller and MVC. Our primary goal is to provide a structured framework that enables PHP users at all levels to rapidly develop robust web applications, without any loss to flexibility."

Nice one guys, keeping the dream alive!

Mee's Been at the Photoshop

I do NOT have hamster cheeks. I repeat, I do NOT have hamster cheeks.

Adam's Birthday Party

This album is from a few weeks ago, at the birthday party the other Adam I work with. There's a pattern emerging here - in all of these albums there always a picture of me kissing someone (or someone planting one on me) and at least one of me holding multiple drinks (this on is four).

Friday Night at the Longacre

So after the MONSTROUSLY MASSIVE week that saw the Google table football party, the MSN party, England football friendly against Germany, and the AD.com media party, this is what was left of us on the Friday night, at the Longacre in Covent Garden.

Friday Night Bowling

Last Friday night, we went bowling at the Trocadero. The lanes opened at 7pm, and so did my liver.

Nose Propellor

I think this is real, and I think it's done with the tiny little hairs on the end of one's nose.

I want to see this done in real life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbUeX8ZPUmA

Random MP3 Search Player

Remeber a while ago somebody figured out how to perform Google open directory searches to find MP3s? Well some other clever bastard made an application out of it that plays the random tracks it finds. Not that it's always a goldmine, but interesting to have on in the background.

http://www.b3ta.cr3ation.co.uk/play.php

Robert DeNiro Teaches Emo How To Act

Feed The Head

I have no idea what the point of this little thing is, but the possibilities are great and it's kept me amused for the past 45 minutes now.

http://www.feedthehead.net/

Transparent Toaster

What a brilliant idea! A transparent toaster so you can see exactly when your toast is the perfect shade of black, erm I mean brown. For me my toast is perfect when it just beginning to get burnt.



Too bad it's only a concept right now.

Cool Ventriloquist

Ok, so I mostly hate ventriloquists, I can't help but think of Keith harris and Orville (shudder) scarey, and I didn't like Orville either. Spit the dog was funny, but this guy just goes the extra inch...

http://www.flabber.nl/archief/021451.php

Overheard in New York

Blond Tourist Bimbo: I've never even heard of the G Train.
Blond Local Bimbo: Yeah, it's a ghetto train.
Blond Tourist Bimbo: Where does it go?
Blond Local Bimbo: Nowhere.
Black eight-year-old boy: Except my home, bitch.

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Word Definition

No, this one's not from dictionary.com, but extremely useful nonetheless:

floordrobe n. A pile of discarded clothes on the floor of a person’s room. [Blend of floor and wardrobe.]

Cadburys Advert

I just saw this on the gogglebox. Heaven knows what is has to do with chocolate, but it's brilliant.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol_2z3AcSbA

It does, however, appear to be a blatant rip-off of a previous commercial for west49.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18BcWQsljvU

Oh, wait, that's what creative agencies do isn't it?

Top 1000 Songs of the 80s

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