Brain Teasers Preparation for Job Interviews

A recent CNN article explains well why a growing number of companies use brain teasers and logic puzzles of a type called “guesstimations” during job interviews. If you’re dreaming of landing a coding job at an A-list tech company? It might be a good idea to prep for your interviews by pondering how many golf balls can fit inside a school bus. Or how much you would charge for washing all the windows in Seattle. Or why, exactly, manhole covers are round and not, say, square.

Seriously, this was a question asked during an interview at the GooglePlex:

QUESTION: How many golf balls can fit in a school bus?

ANSWER: About 500,000, assuming the bus is 50 balls high, 50 balls wide, and 200 balls long

Here’s the summarized Google test provided by CNN