Are You Pedantic Enough to Work for Google?
January 23, 2015
A joke quiz on Clickhole titled Are You Smart Enough to Work For Google poses a series of questions that range from the philosophical to the absurd. Google has become famous for its approach to work space, and its hiring process is certainly going to be unusual as well. The Clickhole quiz pokes fun at the search giant’s attempts to be hip and creative in all aspects of their work. For example, if you were a tiny man fighting ants in helmets, what would you do? Answers include, “Oh my God! This is so neat!” and “Ants can’t wear hats. That is an amazing questions, though.” Interestingly, a sample of questions from an actual Google Labs aptitude test, while more mathematical in nature, are similar in tone to the joke questions. For example,
“ ‘Tis known in refine company, that choosing K things out 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.”
We get it, Google. You are cooler than other companies. You are weirder than other companies. You are more creative than other companies.
Chelsea Kerwin, January 22, 2014
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