This dynamic becomes more intense if you happen to be an engineer or designer at Apple.
The questions that are basically directed to determine the interviewees communication skills, problem solving ability and creativity.
Given below excerpts are interesting, puzzling and wacky and have been taken from the interview data from Glassdoor.
These questions were asked to prospective Apple employees during their job interviews.
Software QA Engineer
The first example is something of a brain teaser.
The boxes have been incorrectly labeled such that no label identifies the actual contents of the box it labels.
Opening just one box, and without looking in the box, you take out one piece of fruit.
By looking at the fruit, how can you immediately label all of the boxes correctly?
The next example is a bit more interesting and needs a dash of creativity.
How do you test a prototype of a vending machine… if it doesnt give back any change?
How do you analyze what has gone wrong?
You dont have any access to internals of the vending machine.
Product Manager
Below are three interesting examples that were found during Product Manager interviews.
The first reads:How would you write the business requirements for a toaster?
Most questions asked to potential software engineers are mainly hardcore engineering problems.
However, there were still few notable that managed to grab attention.
Whats the optimal solution?
10 of them are heads up, 90 are tails up.
You cant feel, see or in any other way find out which side is up.
Split the coins into two piles such that there are the same number of heads in each pile.
You put a glass of water on a record turntable and begin slowly increasing the speed.
What happens first does the glass slide off, tip over, or does the water splash out?
Global Supply Manager
A question in the Microsoft mold:How many children are born every day?
And one more for good measure:How would you breakdown the cost of this pen?
source: www.techworm.net
