Top Google Interview Questions

2. Puzzles:

Puzzles and other brainteasers all set to screen how one candidate thinks out of the box.

Examples:

a. You’re playing football on a desert island and want to toss a coin to decide the advantage.  The only coin you’ve got is bent and seriously biased. How can you use it to make a fair decision?

b. You’ve got a stalk of pennies as high as the empire State Building. Can you fit all the pennies in one room?

c. 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 weighing?

3. Problem Solving:

Problem solving needs many skills as it asks you to integrate your intelligence, analytical skills and creativity to solve them.

Examples:

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

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

c. 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?

d. What is the probability of breaking a stick into 3 pieces and forming a triangle?