15 Google Interview Questions That Made Geniuses Feel Dumb
Google used to have really embarrassing hiring practices.
谷歌会进行一些让人尴尬万分的面试。
It would hardly look at applicants who hadn"t gone to an Ivy League school, MIT, Cal Tech, or Stanford.
面试谷歌的几乎都是来自像常青藤、加州理工、斯坦福等名校的天才。
It also actually used to ask executives and engineers in their mid-30s about their college GPAs.
在面试时，谷歌的确会问到应聘者大学的成绩怎么样，即使是一些已达30岁的管理人员和工程师。
The worst thing Google HR would do was ask applicants insanely difficult "brain teaser" interview questions.
但是谷歌的HR最难为人的就是问一些让人抓破头皮也想不通的非人类问题。
Gayle Laakmann McDowell, a former Google software engineer and author of The Google Resume, says the company has finally "banned" most of these awful hiring practices.
前谷歌软件工程师Gayle Laakmann McDowell，也是《谷歌简历》的作者，称谷歌现在已经禁止了类似荒诞的面试了。
Of the brain teasers, she says: "If an interviewer were to ask a candidate a brain teaser, despite the policy, the hiring committee would likely disregard this interviewer’s feedback and send a note back telling the interviewer not to ask such silly questions."
关于这些荒谬的问题，她说道如果一位面试官提出类似的问题，应聘的人通常都会不以为然并且提示面试官不要问这种无聊的问题。
How bad were these "silly questions" that Google had to outright ban them?
Pretty bad.
Seattle job coach Lewis Lin put together a list of 140 questions his clients were asked by Google. Here are 15 BANNED Google Interview Questions That Will Make You Feel Stupid
那么，这些问题到底有多荒谬呢？真的够糟糕的！西雅图的职业导师Lewis Lin通过调查搜集了140个类似的问题，下面是最为荒谬的15个：
1、How many golf balls can fit in a school bus?
一辆校车能装下多少个高尔夫球？
2、How much should you charge to wash all the windows in Seattle?
如果要你洗完西雅图所有窗户，你会要价多少？
3、In a country in which people only want boys every family continues to have children until they have a boy. If they have a girl, they have another child. If they have a boy, they stop. What is the proportion of boys to girls in the country?
有一个国家，那里的人只想要男孩子。每个家庭在生到男孩之前都会一直要孩子。那么，这个国家的男女比例是多少呢？
4、Design an evacuation plan for San Francisco
为旧金山制定一个紧急疏散计划
5、Why are manhole covers round?
为什么沙井盖要做成圆的？
6、How many piano tuners are there in the entire world?
全世界有多少个钢琴调音师？
7、How many times a day does a clock’s hands overlap?
一天当中时针、分针、秒针会重叠多少次？
8、Explain the significance of "dead beef"
死牛肉有多重要？
9、A man pushed his car to a hotel and lost his fortune. What happened?
一个男人把他的车推到酒店，但是他的钱全没了，为什么？
10、You need to check that your friend, Bob, has your correct phone number，but you cannot ask him directly. You must write the question on a card which and give it to Eve who will take the card to Bob and return the answer to you. What must you write on the card, besides the question, to ensure Bob can encode the message so that Eve cannot read your phone number?
你需要核实你的朋友Bob是否有你的电话号码，但是你不能直接问他。你必须写一张纸条交给Eve，让Eve把纸条交给Bob，然后Eve把答案拿回来告诉你。那么，你要在 纸上写什么才能保证Bob读懂你的意思，但是又不能让Eve看到你的电话号码？
11、You"re the captain of a pirate ship and 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?
你是一艘海盗船的船长，由你来分配赃物，底下的船员进行投票。如果分赃的方法不能得到一半以上的人的认同，你就会死掉。那么， 你怎么分配这些赃物既可以让你 分到大蛋糕又可以活命？
12、You have eight balls all of the same size 7 of them weigh the same, and one of them weighs slightly more. How can you find the ball that is heavier by using a balance and only two weighings?
你有八个大小一样的球，其中七个重量是一样的，另外一个稍微重一点。那么，你怎么用天平称两次就把那个比较重的球找出来？
13、You are given 2 eggs。You have access to a 100-story building. Eggs can be very hard or very fragile means it may break if dropped from the first floor or may not even break if dropped from 100th floor. Both eggs are identical. You need to figure out the highest floor of a 100-story building an egg can be dropped without breaking. The question is how many drops you need to make. You are allowed to break 2 eggs in the process.
你有两个外表一模一样的鸡蛋，一个普通鸡蛋很容易碎，另一个则很硬，可能从100层的高楼坠下也不会碎。那么，你怎么测试出硬鸡蛋最高可以承受多少层楼的高度？ 测试的时候只允许打碎两个鸡蛋。
14、Explain a database in three sentences to your eight-year-old nephew.
用三句话向你8岁的侄子讲清楚一个数据库。
15、You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and your mass is proportionally reduced so as to maintain your original density. You are then thrown into an empty glass blender. The blades will start moving in 60 seconds. What do you do?
你变成一个五分硬币那么小，然后被扔到一个透明的榨汁机里，然后刀片将会转动60秒。这时候你会怎么做？
作者：Nicholas Carlson
翻译：张飒
