[jiggyboy]

Not quite as momentous as confirmation that the government is indeed copying all our emails, but it’s always nice to check another thing off the “I knew it all along” list.

[OneWingedShark]

•How much should you charge to wash all the windows in Seattle?

$200 Billion — because I hate Seattle.

•Design an evacuation plan for San Francisco

Free — make sure all the exist are destroyed and nuke the site from orbit: population evacuation complete.

•How many times a day does a clock’s hands overlap?

23 or 24, basically once an hour, it depends on if you're counting 000-2359:59, or 0000-2400.

•A man pushed his car to a hotel and lost his fortune. What happened?

The Federal Reserve inflated money in that time so much it became worthless.

•You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and your mass is proportionally reduced so as to maintain your original density. You are then thrown into an empty glass blender. The blades will start moving in 60 seconds. What do you do?

Use my now proportionally superhuman strength to shatter the blender with a punch — it only said my mass was reduced, not my strength.

[dfwgator]

[Chode]

manhole cover are round because.... unlike a square, they cannot be dropped through their own hole!!!

[Kevmo]

“ They serve primarily to make the interviewer feel smart.”
***Precisely.

[Intolerant in NJ]

How they go about answering the question, not the particular answer they give, can tell you (possibly) a lot about the interviewees as future employees.....

[ltc8k6]

DOJ probably said brainteasers were discriminatory.

[Libloather]

(How many piano tuners are there in the entire world? Why are manhole covers round?)

How many tight ends can the Patriots go through in one offseason? (And no, Tebow doesn't count.)

[autumnraine]

Now lets get rid.of those stupid personality test feel good companies like to use.

[HiTech RedNeck]

It was, I heard, ostensibly to find out how the person might approach getting the answer to such a random question, and little interested in an actual answer.

[DustyMoment]

“We found that brainteasers are a complete waste of time,” Laszlo Bock, senior vice president of people operations at Google, told the New York Times. “They don’t predict anything. They serve primarily to make the interviewer feel smart.”

A 4th grader could have told them that. I wonder how much Google paid to have some "research" company tell them that?

IDIOTS!! This is just another reason I refuse to use Google for anything.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

(PS: The answer is 500,000).

Not if you ride the short bus.

[Lazamataz]

I was asked to come up with some Google questions. I did. This is what I submitted:

1. Would Laz hit it? How often and why?
2. How many hits would a Laz-hit hit, if a Laz-hit could hit it?
3. Translate this Latin phrase: "Veni, Vidi, Hit-ci."
4. Please relate the propensity of Laz to hit it as a function of SexyBack, Lackanooky Factor, and the NaughtyTeacher Series?
5. You are a cute female. You have only a spool of thread, a pair of rubber gloves, a quart of apple juice, three monkeys, one Sterilite 5 gallon tub full of grape jam, a trampoline, and a midget. You see Laz approaching. What do you do?

[Joan Kerrey]

I went through a few of these tests.
On one test I remember I was given two pictures, one directly below the other. I was told to list all the differences between the two pictures. The pictures were quite complex with lots of buildings and objects to look at.

I answered after looking at the pictures closely but briefly that there were no differences. NONE, I answered.

Later the interviewer said that I was the only one who answered correctly. She said that if not stopped some interviewees would have spent days trying to find differences that didn’t exist.

[savedbygrace]

You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and your mass is proportionally reduced so as to maintain your original density. You are then thrown into an empty glass blender. The blades will start moving in 60 seconds. What do you do?

I'd use my super powers and jump out of the blender.

[savedbygrace]

Why Marine veterans have a hard time getting a job:

Job Interview

Personnel Manager: “What is your greatest
weakness?”

Old Marine: “Honesty.”

Personnel Manager: “I don’t think honesty is a weakness!”

Old Marine: “I don’t give a sh!t what you think.”