Google：21道能力倾向测试面试题

　　10月底，Google在美国《麻省技术评论》、《LinuxJournal》、《Mensa》、《今日物理》等几本专业杂志上，刊登了一份“Google实验室能力倾向测试”。

　　试卷开头，蛊惑地写着“试试看!把答案寄回Google，你有希望去Google总部参观，并成为我们其中一员”。

　　我看了这些题目，虽然古怪，但是也不算有困难，有兴趣的人可以做完了邮寄给google公司，也许会得到一个工作机会呢。

　　注：不要向我要答案。

　　1. Solve this cryptic equation， realizing of course that values for M and E could be interchanged. No leading zeros are allowed.

　　WWWDOT - GOOGLE = DOTCOM

　　2. Write a haiku describing possible methods for predicting search traffic seasonality.

　　3. 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 1

　　What is the next line?

　　4. You are in a maze of twisty little passages，all alike. There is a dusty laptop here with a weak wireless connection. There are dull，lifeless gnomes strolling about. What dost thou do?

　　A) Wander aimlessly， bumping into obstacles until you are eaten by a grue. B) Use the laptop as a digging device to tunnel to the next level. C) Play MPoRPG until the battery dies along with your hopes. D) Use the computer to map the nodes of the maze and discover an exit path. E) Email your resume to Google， tell the lead gnome you quit and find yourself in whole different world.

　　5. What's broken with Unix?

　　How would you fix it?

　　6. On your first day at Google， you discover that your cubicle mate wrote the textbook you used as a primary resource in your first year of graduate school. Do you：

　　A) Fawn obsequiously and ask if you can have an autograph. B) Sit perfectly still and use only soft keystrokes to avoid disturbing her concentration. C) Leave her daily offerings of granola and English toffee from the food bins.

　　D) Quote your favorite formula from the textbook and explain how it's now your mantra. E) Show her how example 17b could have been solved with 34 fewer lines of code. 7. Which of the following expresses Google□over-arching philosophy?

　　A) "I'm feeling lucky" B) "Don't be evil" C) "Oh， I already fixed that" D) "You should never be more than 50 feet from food" E) All of the above

　　8. How many different ways can you color an icosahedron with one of three colors on each face?