Google interview question

I. Introduction about google interview

It include 21 google interview questions about candidate’s competencies…

II. Google interview questions

1. A man pushed his car to a hotel and lost his fortune. What happened?

2. Explain the significance of “dead beef”?

3. Given a function which produces a random integer in the range 1 to 5, write a function which produces a random integer in the range 1 to 7?

4. You need to check that your friend, Bob, has your correct phone number, but you cannot ask him directly. You must write a the question on a card which and give it to Eve who will take the card to Bob and return the answer to you. What must you write on the card, besides the question, to ensure Bob can encode the message so that Eve cannot read your phone number?

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

6. What method would you use to look up a word in a dictionary?

7. 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?

8. 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 fine the ball that is heavier by using a balance and only two weighings?

9. How many golf balls will fit in the average blender? Will they blend?

10. Observe that 8 = 5 + 3, 10 = 3 + 7, 12 = 5 + 7; show that all even numbers can be expressed as the sum of two primes?

11. Imagine you are shrunk to the height of a nickel and your mass is proportionally reduced so that your density is the same. Now, how much would you charge to wash all the windows in Seattle? (Note, you can’t hire anyone to do it for you, they’ll just squish you and keep all the money)?

12. Consider the set of all sets which do not contain themselves. Does this set contain itself? Answer yes or no?

13. Using only three sentences, explain to an eight-year-old why she cannot have a puppy. (Cue entrance of crying child)?

14. You have a closet full of backs and it is very difficult for you to find or pick the right one? How do you sort or pick the right book?

15. How do you look up for particular words in dictionary explain the process? (This question has been since ages and it is important)?

16. Which work related to your field of education or experience makes you happy?

17. Which work can you perform without getting tired for hours?

18. Approximate how many gas stations are there in United States, any specific logic for arriving at the answer?

19. Three boys stole some mangoes from a garden. As it was late in the evening they decided to divide the fruit equally among them in the morning, and went to sleep. At night while the other two were sleeping, one boy woke up, tip-toed to the basket of mangoes, counted them and ate one. From the remainder he took a precise third and went back to sleep. After some time a second boy woke up. He counted the mangoes, ate one, took an exact third of the remaining and went back to sleep. A little before sun rise the third boy also woke up, ate one, and like the other two boys took a precise third of the remainder in whole mangoes. In the morning, all the three boys went together to the basket of mangoes, counted them. Amongst them they found a ripe mango and discarded it as it was not good for eating. From the remainder they made an exact division?

Find the total number of mangoes which were stolen from the yard?

20. The cherry is a round fruit with a round stone. If the flesh of the cherry around the stone is as thick as the stone itself, can you calculate mentally how much more pulp than stone there is in the cherry?

21. A monument in India is marked as MDCLXVI which year does it represent?

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