How Smart Do You Have To Be To Work For Google?
June 1, 2007 by Pablo Palatnik
It’s Friday and thought to put a fun blog post up. I stumbled upon some questions which were published by Google as a recruiting tool. Now, I’m not sure how old/new these questions are that were published, but most likely still used. Answers are provided in Bold.
1) Solve this cryptic equation, realizing of course that value for M and E could be interchanged. No leading zeros are allowed: WWWDOT – GOOGLE = DOTCOM
Answers: 777589 – 188106 = 589483 or 777589 – 188103 = 589486
2) How many different ways can you color an icosahedron with one of three colors on each face?
Answer: 58,130,055
3) Which of the following expresses Google’s over-arching philosophy?
a) I’m feeling lucky
b) Don’t be evil
c) Oh, I already fixed that
d) You should never be more than 50 feet from food
e) All of the above
Answer: b
[Post Update 6/2] A Digger commented on the story and left this link which is the complete test. Thanks. Google Labs Aptitude Test
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Comments (1)
Are you sure question 2′s answer is right? Could we have explainations to the answers too?
I thought it would be 3 ^ 20 (with the way the question was worded). That would give an answer of 3,486,784,401