Re:27 Jobs with Unbelievably Tough Interview Questions
by zafka on Friday February 24, 2017 @08:29AM
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The water lever would rise (imperceptibly)
The weight of the rock displaced its weight in water while in the boat, when it sinks it only displaces its own volume.
It's sort of a weird collection.
Some gotchas as you say. (I wouldn't have been able to do that example off the top of my head.)
A few classic puzzlers like the boulder in the boat. (Which I still needed to think about in spite of having seen it before.)
Some questions of the standard consulting interview type where you have to reason through to a plausible answer about how many of something there are.
Some questions to get you to open up about yourself.
Capital of Canada is just sort of weird. I'd have thought that was easy but wouldn't think less of someone if they answered Toronto.