Pointless Google questions

All in the tech world know one thing – when you are appearing for an interview with Google, be prepared for the worst as it probably some of the toughest and whackiest brain teasers.

Take a look at some of the questions asked in the past and you will understand what we are talijg about.

• If you wanted to bring your dog to work but one of your team members was allergic to dogs, what would you do?--Associate account strategist, December 2014
• If ads were removed from YouTube, how would you monetize it?--Associate account strategist, January 2016
• Design an evacuation plan for the building.--Business analyst, November 2014
• Which do you think has more advertising potential in Boston, a flower shop or a funeral home?--Account strategist, October 2015
• A coin was flipped 1,000 times and there were 560 heads. Do you think the coin is biased?--Quantitative analyst, September 2015
• What does "being Googley" mean to you?--Product specialist, December 2015
• Name a prank you would pull on x manager if you were hired.--Google applications support engineer, June 2014.
• How many ways can you think of to find a needle in a haystack?--Business associate, May 2014
• If you could only choose one song to play every time you walked into a room for the rest of your life, what would it be?--Associate account strategist, March 2014
• How would you explain cloud computing to a 6-year-old?--Product manager, November 2015

If you felt that you could not have managed to answer many of these, no need to fret. Eric Schmidt, the current executive chairman of Alphabet, Google’s parent, also struggled to answer the brainteaser once put to Google interviewees.

At a talk last month, he was aksed, “You’re the captain of a pirate ship and you find a chest of gold. 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.”

He hemmed and hawed and came up with a half decent answer, “It seems to me that if more than half are happy, I survive. I propose, that we give 49% of the pirates stock in internet companies, and 51% get the gold.”

Indeed, it is a good thing that Google has done away with asking some of these pointless questions or else it could simply end up missing another Eric Schmidt!