8 Ridiculous Questions Banned From Google Interviews

By siliconindia  |   Friday, 25 July 2014, 02:14 IST
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Question: How Many Piano Tuners Are There In The Entire World?
Job: Product Manager
A lot of people don't even know where to begin answering to a question like this. But then, a lot of people are also unfamiliar with Fermi problems. Named after physicist Enrico Fermi, some of these questions were thrown out to candidates to find out their ability to think in creative or abstract ways but it also indicated that candidates didn’t know when to stop over analyzing and just answer the bizarre question.
Question: Explain the significance of 'Dead Beef'
Job: Software Engineer
"DEAD BEEF" is very popular sentence in programming and goes back to decades, perhaps even before theinternet existed in the late 70s. The significance of this question is that it is built from letters a-f which is used in hexadecimal notation, which is a way to mark for easy visibility in a storage that is deallocated or otherwise not to be accessed.
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