A)Mention how many times a day do a clock’s hands overlap?

from:
https://career.guru99.com/35-googles-tricky-interview-questions/

Please be correct, do not read the answer from the link.

B)Out of eight balls, seven balls weigh equal while the one ball is slightly heavier than the others how would you figure out which one is the heavier by using a balance and only two weighing?

C) Some months have 30 days, and some have 31, how may months have 28 days?

D) Brother and sisters I have none but this man’s father is my father’s son? Who is the Man?

E) The day before the day before yesterday is three days after Saturday. What day is today?


You are in a running competition.You just outstripped the 2nd......
What place do you reach?

 

A man lives on the tenth floor of a building. Every day he takes the elevator to go down to the ground floor to go to work or to go shopping. When he returns he takes the elevator to the seventh floor and walks up the stairs to reach his apartment on the tenth floor. He hates walking so why does he do it?
http://www.destination-innovation.com/the-top-ten-lateral-thinking-puzzles/

 

Many of those puzzles come down to ambiguous phrasing in which the "correct" answer is completely dependent on guessing what interpretation the person asking the question chooses.

More to the point, human beings are very good at correctly inferring intended meaning from imprecise statements. If someone asks you how many months have 30 days, it is almost guaranteed to be a correct inference that the intended interpretation is that they want to know how many of the twelve months in the current Gregorian calendar have exactly 30 days. Is someone that can't make that inference and says that eleven of them do really more intelligent than someone that can accurately infer intended meaning from context of use?

 

More to the point, human beings are very good at correctly inferring intended meaning from imprecise statements.

As I said before, there are two types of people in this world:

1) Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data

 

Are you trying to tell me that you can't throw a manhole cover like a frisbee?!?!?!!
Apparently steroids aren't being distributed among us evenly

You must be throwing those light aluminum ones. Real men only throw the steel ones.

 

A man lives on the tenth floor of a building. Every day he takes the elevator to go down to the ground floor to go to work or to go shopping. When he returns he takes the elevator to the seventh floor and walks up the stairs to reach his apartment on the tenth floor. He hates walking so why does he do it?
http://www.destination-innovation.com/the-top-ten-lateral-thinking-puzzles/

Again. What is your point?

You are aware that "lateral thinking" puzzles expect an interaction between the puzzle giver and the puzzle solver in which the solver asks questions and receives Yes, No, N/A answers in response.

So are you prepared to answer such questions accurately since you have chosen to be the puzzle giver?

So I'll ask the first one?

Is the man tall enough to reach a button for any floor higher than the 7th?

 

I don't understand the point of the question.

If you can convince your government and your population to stop using oil, coal, and natural gas right now, go right ahead.

If you can convince your government and your population to get by on only the resources in your country, go right ahead.

Let's say that you were able to convince both your government and your population of both of those things. What would life in your country look like a year from now?

That is the thing. When it becomes to generation of energy. tradition takes hold.

As in. We know better..."But oil(Insert any earthed energy source) is more portable".

At a point in time all non-renewable energy sources is finite on the planet . So for the future we must prepare.

The reason I posted this open question in a thread about IQ. Is that it's so simple yet so complex.

 

At a point in time all non-renewable energy sources will be finite too . So for the future we must prepare(I think...)

You are welcome to cease using oil and oil based products anytime you wish.

Oh, wait. That's not what you meant, was it?

You want someone to force me to stop using them.

You should consider more honesty when you write for public consumption.

 

You are welcome to cease using oil and oil based products anytime you wish.

Oh, wait. That's not what you meant, was it?

You want someone to force me to stop using them.

You should consider more honesty when you write for public consumption.

No! except the part that I wish to get out of oil dependency.

Have I ever manage to school you Joey?

 

No! except the part that I wish to get out of oil dependency.

Easy. Go live in the mountains.

 

I'm too lazy to look for the numbers but you can imagine the % of our watts that, money exchanging hands becomes an oil ship on schedule. When we had already gotten rid of the coal ships in the early 1900.

We fought hard for our independence being an island in the middle of Americas and Europe.

 

Easy. Go live in the mountains.

Lol can't escape renewable energy. Not even in the mountains, heck they make the force of water running downhill even more powerful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydropower

But in all seriousness. If you gamble on non-renewable energy as a long time investment.

You are going to lose.

http://humoncomics.com/mother-gaia

 

As I said before, there are two types of people in this world:

1) Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data

And those who go full troll to avoid having to accept implied answer.

 

And those who go full troll to avoid having to accept implied answer.

Wrong.

2) Those who say "F*** it, gimme a beer!"

 

But in all seriousness. If you gamble on non-renewable energy as a long time investment.

You are going to lose.

It only has to pay off while I am still alive enough to benefit from it and right now nothing say's I have to worry too much for the next 40 - 50 years I might still be alive.

But if something better comes along I will have no issue with exploiting that instead for my benefit either.

 

1) Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data

There are 10 types of people: those who know binary and do not know binary

Again. What is your point?

....................................
So are you prepared to answer such questions accurately since you have chosen to be the puzzle giver?

I said in this topic that success in life depends more on EQ than on IQ.
It's not math, the response is not as precise.

It's not chess. What success in life did the great chessmasters have? Which at 1800 ELO (chess intelligence coefficient) it should be a lot over ordinary people.

About Lateral Thinking:
I've seen people so focused on a point in the problem, that they can not solve the problem.

So I'll ask the first one?

Is the man tall enough to reach a button for any floor higher than the 7th?

I did not know how to answer this. I searched the answer on the Internet.I guess you did the same.

Obvious answers can be many,
You can give a correct answer to which the questioner did not think.
It is possible the person who asked the question to misjudge you, but I do not think it must be a reason do not have such tests.

 

I didn't have to search for the answer -- just like the "how many months have 28 days", it's a joke that goes back decades.

 

So why would Google ask this question at hiring?

I do not know if it's true that it happened at Google. I just read the link above.

 

So why would Google ask this question at hiring?

I do not know if it's true that it happened at Google. I just read the link above.

To what degree Google and Microsoft and other actually ask this kind of stuff I don't know. They might, or it might all be urban legend. I know I wasn't asked anything of the kind when I interviewed with Amazon about five years ago.

Employers are always trying to figure out ways to get glimpses at a prospective employee's problem solving skills, this is particularly true for engineering hires and especially for design engineers. More than anything, such employees are problem solvers and often involved in solving problems that no one has tried to solve before. So they would like to see how you handle tackling a poorly defined problem with limited information that you've never seen before.

But it's not easy to come up with and evaluate the work done on such problems. I read an article a few years ago that said that several large employers had gone away from it because they learned that there wasn't any meaningful correlation between the tests and reality. Instead, they were moving toward wanting to look at work product, which in the software engineering world was facilitated by GitHub repositories and such.

 

It only has to pay off while I am still alive enough to benefit from it and right now nothing say's I have to worry too much for the next 40 - 50 years I might still be alive.

But if something better comes along I will have no issue with exploiting that instead for my benefit either.

Better wins almost every time. However when we look at the purely electric car. We see how money of oil. Have put some hard as F impedance on the development.