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The first question annoys me - are they really still using trick questions like this?
by Deestan 18y ago
The first question annoys me - are they really still using trick questions like this?
- RiderOfGiraffes 18y agoPart of me wonders this: If you're the sort of person who gets annoyed by questions like this, rather than thinking of them as an off-the-wall challenge to have a hack at, maybe you're not the kind of person who would do well at Google. Maybe you're brilliant, maybe you're the best coder/hacker/analyst/whatever on the planet, but if you don't fit with the culture, you might not be of positive value to the company. And if it's full of people who thrive on this sort of "trick question", then you'd probably hate working there anyway.
- Deestan 18y agoI never meant I didn't like that kind of riddle - I really do enjoy most of them. But I don't think they have any use in an interview setting, since they too often just test if the interviewee is up to date on the latest list of interview questions (Eg. http://www.sellsbrothers.com/fun/msiview/default.aspx?content=question.htm#riddles http://www.sellsbrothers.com/fun/msiview/default.aspx?conten...) or not.