Too many applicants? Try using some of Google's interview questions...
Posted by EmployTest - on Wed, Dec 28, 2011 @ 01:45 PM
Too many applicants? Try using some of
Google's interview questions...
Just like you, Google and other high profile companies are flooded with job applicants for every open position. Here's a sampling of interview questions that have been used, according to a Wall Street Journal
article last week.
1. You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and thrown into a blender. Your mass is reduced so that your density is the same as usual. The blades start moving in 60 seconds. What do you do?
2. A man pushed his car to a hotel and lost his fortune. What happened?
3. Using only a four-minute hourglass and a seven-minute hourglass, measure exactly nine minutes—without the process taking longer than nine minutes.
Traditional job interviews are often not very effective at identifying the top job candidates. So in addition to pre-employment job testing, some tech companies are using riddles and puzzles like these to measure the cognitive and creative skills of their job applicants. However, although these tests give interviewers an idea about the applicants' mental horsepower, it may be tough to demonstrate the job-relatedness of the test should the EEOC pay you a visit.
Answers:
1) It depends but a clue is to the density of the person
2) Monopoly, anyone?
3) Flip them both to start, flip 4 min when it empties, and flip 7 minute when it empties. Then when 4 minute empties a second time, flip 7 minute again as it will have exactly one minute remaining.
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