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24th Jan 2016

The Toughest Questions You’ll Be Asked In a Google Interview

"Define a service that would allow you to travel to the future"

Cassie Delaney

We’ve heard the rumors. We know there are ice-cream machines in the canteen and swings around the office to play on in between yoga classes.

It’s not new news that Google is a top class place to work. So if you’re preparing to go work there or hankering for an interview, these are the toughest questions you’re likely to hear in an interview.

According to The Independent these are some of the actual questions people have been asked in interviews.Here are a few:

Here are a few:

Which do you think has more advertising potential in Boston, a flower shop or funeral home?

If you wanted to bring your dog to work but one of your team members was allergic to dogs what would you do?

What does “being Googley” mean to you?

Name a prank you would pull on x manager if you were hired.

What would you want to do if you didn’t have to work?

How many ways can you think of to find a needle in a haystack?

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?

How would you explain cloud computing to a 6-year-old?

You have a grocery delivery service (similar to Amazon Fresh) which delivers food within 24 hours. Estimate how many trucks you need to operate this service.

Define a service that would allow you to travel to the future.

Would you remove the link to an extremist piece of writing?

You have a colony on Mars that you want to communicate with. How do you build a system to communicate with them?

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