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Nah, I live in the country of cheese, every day is cheese lover's day. 
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I'm reading this book:
Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?: Trick Questions, Zen-like Riddles, Insanely Difficult Puzzles, and Other Devious Interviewing Techniques You Need ... to Get a Job Anywhere in the New Economy[^]
It's a bit old (from 2012) but it is really great & as an IT-worker I highly suggest you read it.
It rips into the interview & hiring process. It debunks these silly tests/puzzles & it provides a history of how this all got started (goes back to old days of IBM & early silicon valley).
Plus, if you like puzzles there are some interesting ones & some really stupid ones.
Here's a sample of a real Google interview question: "You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and thrown into a blender. Your mass is reduced so that your density is the same as usual. The blades start moving in 60 seconds. What do you do?"
This one is at least interesting and has a great solution that helped me learn a bit.
I never would've guessed the correct solution.
Have any of you read this book?
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I'm smart enough to not work at Google 
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That's what I was going to say!
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I'm too smart to work at Google!
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Smart enough to walk out of such an "interview".
"It's the fall that's gonna kill ya."
modified 20-Jan-22 11:21am.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: "It's the fall that's gonna kill ya."
Funny that you should say that, because you're actually on the line of reasoning about how the solution to that blender puzzle is solved.
Again, I didn't know the answer either, <spoiler alert!>but they actually consider physics & how size affects living beings. Quite interesting.
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raddevus wrote: consider physics
I don't quite recall what prompted me to think about it -- possibly the Magic School Bus -- but I seem to recall something about characters being shrunk down to smaller than a water molecule to study water. And I'm like, "uh, no, they contain billions of water molecules themselves, there's just no way". They'd have to shrink atoms and sub-atomic particles and strings and all those turtles.
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Jump up when the blender starts and ride it like an indoor skydiving fan?
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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Or lie down near the hub.
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This is the only answer I could think of also and is actually one of the most credible solutions that is accepted. However, there is a better answer that is related to physics & size.
SPOILER -- apparently there is a lot of information on size of animals & ability to jump.
At this size you would be able to simply jump out of the blender -- if you ask interviewer she will tell you that there is no lid. Also when you land you will not be hurt because of size & gravity the way it relates to size.
For example if you drop a mouse down a 1000 foot mineshaft, when it hits it bounces & suffers no real damage. Drop a rat and sustains a broken bone or too. Drop a person and they are destroyed. drop a horse and it becomes a puddle. Size matters. 
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Except for that we cannot predict how the physics in such a universe would work based on the physics in this one.
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In absolute terms (not relative) a flea raises it’s center of gravity about a meter. Same for a horse that jumps a gate.
Cats get a head start by raising up on their hind legs before they jump.
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As soon as I saw "Google" "interview" I stopped reading.
No thank you.
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Bleah - it has exactly the same relationship with actual science as that that '60es movie: Fantastic Voyage[^]. And in that sprit, I would pull a phaser and blow away the blender.
Bonus backup plan: use my communicator to ask Scotty to beam me up
Mircea
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A nickel would have thickness and diameter (which way is "height"?) .... donk interviewer!
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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I'd assume thickness, based on a nickel lying on a table.
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An ellipse (circle) has width and height.
A lot of assuming; including the coin lying flat ... on a table, etc.
Reasons why projects fail / come in over budget.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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An ellipse is two-dimensional; a coin is three-dimensional.
A circle has radius, and by extension diameter.
A joke I heard as a kid (early 70s):
Q: How many sides does a circle have?
A: Two; the inside and the outside.
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Like most of the other responders, I would walk out of an interview like that. If I were sufficiently pissed off about it, I might send them an invoice for my 'consulting' time.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I feel I am smart enough to NOT work at Google. 
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Nothing. Blender blades are offset from the bottom, so you could safely just chill at the bottom until the blades stop.
raddevus wrote: It rips into the interview & hiring process. It debunks these silly tests/puzzles & it provides a history of how this all got started
Sounds like an interesting read. I've always equated these kinds of interviews to hiring a detective by seeing if they can solve a crossword puzzle in 30 minutes. Sure, you can make a tenuous argument that it's relevant (a crossword requires a wide breadth of knowledge which could help in analyzing situations a detective might run into) but it's never been shown to be a good metric for performance. Much better would be conviction rate, cold case rate, etc.
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I am here and now! (14)
CRUCIVERBALIST
And I know Randor and Greg knew the word: The Lounge[^]
Oh well I'll try an easier one tomorrow - this wasn't supposed to go out for a year or so, but the one I did have for today was wrong, and I didn't notice until I posted it ... so I had to replace it quickly.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I don't see the connection in your clue !
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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