转一份google的招聘试题

serena_chueng · 发表于 2005-8-27 09:02:36

1. Solve this cryptic equation, realizing of

　　course that values for M and E could be

　　interchanged. No leading zeros are allowed.

　　WWWDOT - GOOGLE = DOTCOM

　　2. Write a haiku describing possible methods

　　for predicting search traffic seasonality.

　　3.

　　1

　　1 1

　　2 1

　　1 2 1 1

　　1 1 1 2 2 1

　　What is the next line?

　　4. You are in a maze of twisty little passages,

　　all alike. There is a dusty laptop here with a

　　weak wireless connection. There are dull,

　　lifeless gnomes strolling about. What dost

　　thou do?

　　A) Wander aimlessly, bumping into

　　obstacles until you are eaten by a grue.

　　B) Use the laptop as a digging device to

　　tunnel to the next level.

　　C) Play MPoRPG until the battery dies

　　along with your hopes.

　　D) Use the computer to map the nodes

　　of the maze and discover an exit path.

　　E) Email your resume to Google, tell the

　　lead gnome you quit and find yourself

　　in whole different world.

　　5. What's broken with Unix?

　　How would you fix it?

　　6. On your first day at Google, you discover

　　that your cubicle mate wrote the textbook

　　you used as a primary resource in your first

　　year of graduate school. Do you:

　　A) Fawn obsequiously and ask if you

　　can have an autograph.

　　B) Sit perfectly still and use only soft

　　keystrokes to avoid disturbing her

　　concentration.

　　C) Leave her daily offerings of granola

　　and English toffee from the food bins.

　　D) Quote your favorite formula from the

　　textbook and explain how it's now

　　your mantra.

　　E) Show her how example 17b could

　　have been solved with 34 fewer lines

　　of code.

　　7. Which of the following expresses Google□

　　over-arching philosophy?

　　A) "I'm feeling lucky"

　　B) "Don't be evil"

　　C) "Oh, I already fixed that"

　　D) "You should never be more than

　　50 feet from food"

　　E) All of the above

　　8. How many different ways can you color an

　　icosahedron with one of three colors on

　　each face?

　　What colors would you choose?

　　9. This space left intentionally blank. Please fill it

　　with something that improves upon emptiness.

　　10.On an infinite, two-dimensional, rectangular

　　lattice of 1-ohm resistors, what is the

　　resistance between two nodes that are a

　　knight's move away?

　　11.It's 2 PM on a sunny Sunday afternoon in the

　　Bay Area. You're minutes from the Pacific

　　Ocean, redwood forest hiking trails and world

　　class cultural attractions. What do you do?

　　12.In your opinion, what is the most beautiful

　　math equation ever derived?

　　13. Which of the following is NOT an actual

　　interest group formed by Google employees?

　　A. Women's basketball

　　B. Buffy fans

　　C. Cricketeers

　　D. Nobel winners

　　E. Wine club

　　14.What will be the next great improvement in

　　search technology?

　　15.What is the optimal size of a project team,

　　above which additional members do not

　　contribute productivity equivalent to the

　　percentage increase in the staff size?

　　A) 1

　　B) 3

　　C) 5

　　D) 11

　　E) 24

　　16.Given a triangle ABC, how would you use only

　　a compass and straight edge to find a point P

　　such that triangles ABP, ACP and BCP have

　　equal perimeters? (Assume that ABC is

　　constructed so that a solution does exist.)

　　17.Consider a function which, for a given whole

　　number n, returns the number of ones required

　　when writing out all numbers between 0 and n.

　　For example, f(13)=6. Notice that f(1)=1. What

　　is the next largest n such that f(n)=n?

　　18.What's the coolest hack you've ever written?

　　19.'Tis known in refined company, that choosing

　　K things out of N can be done in ways as

　　many as choosing N minus K from N: I pick K,

　　you the remaining.

　　Find though a cooler bijection, where you show

　　a knack uncanny, of making your choices contain

　　all K of mine. Oh, for pedantry: let K be no more

　　than half N.

　　20.What number comes next in the sequence:

　　10, 9, 60, 90, 70, 66,?

　　A)96

　　B) 1000000000000000000000000000000000

　　0000000000000000000000000000000000

　　000000000000000000000000000000000

　　C) Either of the above

　　D) None of the above

　　21.In 29 words or fewer, describe what you

　　would strive to accomplish if you worked

　　at Google Labs.