Posted on 12/31/2010 10:33:55 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Goldman Sachs has a notoriously difficult interview process.
According to Glassdoor.com, interviewers are subjected to a number of tests including, a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Presentation, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test, a Personality Test, a Drug Test and a Background Check.
Think you can handle it?
See how well you answer this one, posed to an applicant in the first-year analyst program, the lowest level at Goldman Sachs.
"If you were shrunk to the size of a pencil and put in a blender, how would you get out?"
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Call Tim Geithner and Ben Bernanke on my cell phone - isn't that how any investment banker gets out of predicaments nowadays?
I would reach into my utility belt, pull out my batarang, and hurl it onto a handy projection. Then while climbing the batrope I would my witty quips about even small problems seem insurmountable at times, but justice will prevail.
RE: Call Tim Geithner and Ben Bernanke on my cell phone
YOU’RE HIRED !! You have the potential for being a Goldman Sachs CEO !
Well, since being shrunk to the size of a pencil is about as possible as my wishes coming true (see “Obama Still in Office” wish made Jan 21, 2008), I suppose I could just wish myself out.
/thread over!
"Take my pants off."
Interviewer: "Why?"
"To kiss my a$$ goodbye."
Bada boom, bada bing! Although that might not get you hired. :)
Could an applicant just say that it’s a stupid question because one cannot be shrunk down to the size of a pencil of any other object?
If my body were the size of a pencil (i.e. if I were as tall, head to toe, as a new pencil), I would extend my height/length by holding my arms out overhead and simply do the American Ninja Warrior spider walk to the top and kick off the lid with my free hand or foot.
I dunno, they shrank the economy about that much, proportionately...
I'm only much smaller, but I'm NOT much lighter. So - in my case - I still weigh about 195 lbs. So I just lean against the side of the blender, and it falls over, and I walk out.
I’d give them the same general answer all economists give when asked how they’d get out of a hypothetical fifty-foot hole: “First, assume a ladder”...
The responses at the post are hilarious. People take this too literal.
Zing! You’re on a roll.
Shoot my way out.
RE: Richard Feynman would eat their lunch.
Unfortunately, he is one of a kind...
It’s almost as rigorous as Procter and Gamble when I applied straight out of university. One group I was in was hauled into a room with pencil and paper and in the middle of the room was a swan origami. All 5 of us were scratching our heads why and the “moderator” comes in and tells us to fold the paper in front us in the shape of the swan.
the 2nd test was more usual than this...
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