10 Tough question asked in interview

                         10 Tough question asked in Interview

             

Google

1.    If you were given a box of pencils, list 10 things you could do with them that are not their traditional use.

Job: Administrative assistant

Amazon

2.    How would you solve problems if you were from Mars?

Job: Senior recruiting manager

Apple

3.    What's the most creative way you can break a clock?

Job: Intern

Microsoft

4.    A disc is spinning on a spindle, and you don't know which way. You are given a set of pins. Describe how you would use them to determine which way the disc is spinning.

Job: Software development engineer

Facebook

5.    You have a bag of with "N" number of strings. At random, you pull out a string's end. You pull out another string end and you tie the two together. You repeat this until there are no loose ends left to pull out of the bag. What is the expected number of loops?

Job: Business operations intern

Google

6.    You want to design a phone for deaf people — how do you do it?

Job: Product manager

Microsoft

7.    How would you design an elevator?

Job: Intern

Twitter

8.    Why should we not hire you?

Job: Recruiter

Electronic Arts

9.    How do you compute the collision of two moving spheres? Give me both the mathematical equations for the solution as well as an algorithmic implementation.

Job: Senior software engineer

Microsoft

10.                 Name as many Microsoft products as you can.

          Job: Associate consultant

Reference: Times of India Tech