8 Ridiculous Questions Banned From Google Interviews

BANGALORE: Hiring the best talent has always been a tough task for successful multinational companies. The job interviews of these companies are bizarre task for candidates and one among them is Google which has been in the limelight for following these practices. Moreover, there are questions that have no answers and are designed to test real talent of candidates. So if you’re not aware of the bizarre interview questions that are eventually banned from being asked, here is a list, check them out, as reported by Business Insider.
Question: Why Are Manhole Covers Round?
Job: Software Engineer
The question of why manhole covers are typically round was then made famous by Microsoft when they began asking it as a job-interview question. Originally meant as a psychological assessment of how one approaches a question with more than one correct answer, this question used to get bizarre answers and explanations from the candidates back then and is eventually banned now because it’s just a lid to prevent anyone or anything from falling inside it.
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Question: How Many Piano Tuners Are There In The Entire World?
Job: Product Manager
A lot of people don't even know where to begin answering to a question like this. But then, a lot of people are also unfamiliar with Fermi problems. Named after physicist Enrico Fermi, some of these questions were thrown out to candidates to find out their ability to think in creative or abstract ways but it also indicated that candidates didn’t know when to stop over analyzing and just answer the bizarre question.
Question: Explain the significance of 'Dead Beef'
Job: Software Engineer
"DEAD BEEF" is very popular sentence in programming and goes back to decades, perhaps even before theinternet existed in the late 70s. The significance of this question is that it is built from letters a-f which is used in hexadecimal notation, which is a way to mark for easy visibility in a storage that is deallocated or otherwise not to be accessed.
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Question: How Much Should You Charge To Wash All The Windows In Seattle?
Job: Product Manager
This is indeed a tricky and bizarre question. And an intelligent guy will answer this question as, $10 per window. As most of the candidates might not know the real fact behind the question that you don’t require to wash anything in Seattle because it rains so much there that all windows get washed by themselves. However, the interviewers look for candidates to arrive at a more accurate answer. So, it is really the validity of the approach that is a test of the candidate's caliber.
Question: Explain A Database In Three Sentences To Your Eight-Year-Old Nephew?
Job: Product Manager
The whole point here is to test the candidate’s ability to communicate complex ideas in simple language. But you might wonder why the kid is involved? Well as you know that you have to put your toys away when you're done playing. So the database out here is referred to put thedata away—as the toys are data instead. The database which can find the right data easily irrespective of the anything the computer can get everything out to play with very quickly, because it's in a database.
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Question: Design An Evacuation Plan For San Francisco?
Job: Product Manager
Even though planning for an evacuation for San Francisco has nothing to with the product manager, it’s just intended to find out how the interviewee would approach the problem and how he would use his reasoning skills to draft an evacuation a process. However, it is now an old Google job interview question and no longer exists in its ranks, so candidates no longer need to chalk out evacuation plans.
Question: 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?
Job: Product Manager
The question is quiet tricky and straight. The interviewer’s intension out here is to know all about the judging capability as well as the candidate’s creativity on how he would confront the issue and break free out of the motor.
Question: How Many Golf Balls Can Fit In A School Bus?
Job: Product Manager
This is one of those common questions Google asks its candidates just to see if the applicant can explain the key challenge to solving the problem. However if you still want to arrive at the answer you need to get into lot of juggling with numbers which might get too boring to read. 
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