15 BANNED Google Interview Questions in Job Interview


A former Google recruiter named Gayle Laakman McDowell says the company has finally "banned" most of these awful hiring practices.

Q1. A man pushed his car to a hotel and lost his fortune. What happened?


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Q2. How many piano tuners are there in the world?


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Q3. Explain the significance of 'Dead Beef'.


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Q4. How many golf balls can fit in a school bus?


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Q5. How much should you charge to wash all the windows in seattle?


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Q6. If you are a captain of a pirate ship and your crew gets to vote on how the gold is divided up. If fewer than half of the pirates agree with you, you die. How do you recommend apportioning the gold in such a way that you get a good share of the booty, but still survive?


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Q7. How many times a day does a clock's hands overlap?


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Q8. 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?


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Q9. Design an evacuation plan for San Francisco.


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Q10. Why are Manhole covers round?


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Q11. You are given 2 eggs, if you have access to a 100 story building. Eggs can be very hard or very fragile means it may break if dropped from the first floor or may not even break if dropped from the 100th floor. Both eggs are identical. You need to figure out the highest floor of a 100 story building an egg can be dropped without breaking. The question is how many drops you need to make. You are allowed to break 2 eggs in the process.


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Q12. You need to check that your friend, bob, has correct your phone number, but you cannot ask him directly. You must write the question on the 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, besided the question, to ensure bob can encode the message so that eve cannot read the phone number?


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Q13. You are a shrunk to the height of a nickle and your mass is proportionally reduced so as to maintain your original density. You are then thrown in to an empty glass blender. The blades will start moving in 60 seconds. What do you do?


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Q14. You have eight balls all of the same size. Seven of them weigh the same, and on of them weighs slightly more. How can you find the ball that is heavier by using a balance and only two weighing?


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Q15. Explain a database in three sentences to your eight year old nephew.


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