The Interview Question

A global sample of interview questions -- the quirky ones.

• How many tennis balls are in this room and why? (Yahoo)
• Are your parents disappointed with your career aspirations? (Fisher Investments)
• If I put you in a seated room with a phone that had no dial tone, how would you fix it? (Apple)
• If you were a brick in a wall, which brick would you be and why? (Nestle USA)
• How would you move Mount Fuji? (Microsoft)
• Develop an algorithm for finding the shortest distance between two words in a document. After the phone interview is over, take a few hours to develop a working example in C++ and send it to the manager. (Google)
• Given a dictionary of words, how do you calculate the anagrams for a new word? (Amazon)
• How many hair salons are there in Japan? (Boston Consulting)
• Say you are dead - - what do you think you eulogy would say about you? (Nationwide Insurance)