來試試？谷歌變態面試題，沒懵圈已是萬幸
Going for a job interview is nerve-racking at the best of times, but tech giant Google has become notorious for asking fiendishly tough questions.
即使是面試的最佳時期，參加面試也是夠讓人費神的，而技術巨頭Google早就因變態的面試問題而異常出名。
The company used to ask head-scratching questions such as 'How many piano tuners are there in the world?' and 'How many golf BAlls does it take to fill a school bus?'
它曾提出過這樣令人撓頭的問題“世界上有多少位鋼琴調音師？”以及“要使用多少個高爾夫球才能填滿一輛校巴？”
But some of the riddles were so tough they have now been banned from the interview process.
不過有的問題實在太難了，如今已經從面試的提問列表中剔除出去了。
One of the tough teasers that candidates used to be asked was: 'How many piano tuners are there in the entire world?'
曾經一個求職者被問到的難題是：“在全世界範圍內有多少位鋼琴調音師？”
The riddle is known as a Fermi problem, named after the physicist Enrico Fermi who was known for his ability to make good calculations with very little information or even none.
這個問題被譽爲費米難題，以物理學家恩里科·費米的名字命名，他因憑藉極少信息量甚至無信息量做出精確估量計算的能力而聞名。
Its purpose is to test a candidates approximation skills as well as their ability at dimensional analysis.
這個問題的目的在於測試求職者的近似值估算能力以及他們的空間分析能力。
The puzzle is solved by multiplying a series of estimates to get to the right answer. So a candidate would have to estimate factors such as how many households have a piano, how often they are tuned to figure out how many piano tunings take place a year.
解決這個問題的方法就得綜合一系列的估算才能得出正確答案。因此求職者可能需要估算不同的因素，比如有多少家庭家裏有鋼琴，他們給鋼琴調音的頻率，以此得出一年的鋼琴調音次數。
They then need to calculate the average working hours of a piano tuners and the number of jobs they carry out.
然後他們還得計算每位鋼琴調音師的平均工作時間以及他們所完成的工作數量。
The number of piano tunings that take place per year divided by the number per year per piano tuner should yield the answer.
每年給鋼琴調音的次數除以每年每位鋼琴調音師就能得出最終答案。
Google candidates going for a role as product manager also used to be asked: 'How many golf balls can fit in a school bus?
應聘Google產品經理的求職者也曾被問過這樣的問題：“要使用多少個高爾夫球才能填滿一輛校巴？”
To solve it one must calculate the volume of the average golf ball and the volume of the average school bus, taking into account factors like the seats and other fixtures taking up space.
要解決這個問題，必須計算出高爾夫球的平均體積，以及校巴的平均體積，還要把座位以及其他固定裝置計算在內。
The answer is the volume of the bus, divided by the volume of the balls.
答案就是，用校巴的體積除以高爾夫球的體積。
As well as questions involving calculation and physics, Google used to ask would-be employees to solve logic puzzles.
除了提到關於估量計算與物理學的問題，Google曾經讓候選員工解決邏輯謎題。
One of the riddles was: 'Every man in a village of 100 married couples has cheated on his wife.
其中有一個這樣的題目：“村子裏100對結過婚的丈夫都對妻子不忠實。”
'Every wife in the village instantly knows when a man other than her husband has cheated but does not know when her own husband has.
“村子裏的每位妻子都能立即知道別人的丈夫有不忠誠的行爲，但當自己丈夫不忠誠時卻渾然不知。”
'The village has a law that does not allow for adultery. Any wife who can prove that her husband is unfaithful must kill him that very day. “
”村子裏有規定，不允許任何通姦行爲。任何一位能證明自己丈夫不忠的妻子必須當天就把他殺了。”
'The women of the village would never disobey this law. One day, the queen of the village visits and announces that at least one husband has been unfaithful. What happens?'
“村子裏的女人絕不敢違法規定。有一天，村裏的女頭領出來視察環境並宣佈：村子裏至少有一個丈夫出過軌。然後會發生什麼事？”
Although opinion varies as to the correct answer, a popular solution is to assume that all the cheating husbands will be executed 100 days after the queen's announcement.
雖然大家的答案都與正確答案並不相似，不過有一個支持率挺高的方法：假設所有不忠誠的丈夫們都會在女頭領宣佈命令後的100天后被處決。
Every wife in the village instantly knows when a man other than her husband has cheated, so if there's only one unfaithful man she will know it's her husband and will kill him that day.
村子裏的妻子立即就會知道別人的丈夫有不忠誠的行爲，因此若不忠誠的丈夫只有一人，她就會很快知道是自己的丈夫，並且在那一天把他殺了。
Bearing in mind that the queen has said that at least one man has cheated, there could be more than a single adulterer.
把女頭領說過至少有一個男人不忠誠這句話記在心裏，那麼就可能不只一個通姦者了。
If there are two cheaters, 98 women will know who they are. The next day when the wives who have been cheated on see that nobody has been executed they will realise the only explanation is that their husbands are the culprits, and will kill them.
如果有兩個通姦者，另外的98個妻子就會知道他們是誰。次日，當一直在被欺騙隱瞞的妻子們發現沒有人被處決，她們就會意識到唯一合理的解釋就是她們的丈夫就是通姦者，然後就把他們殺了。
By that logic, 100 cheating husbands will be executed on the 100th day, as the riddle states that every man in the village has cheated on his wife.
根據邏輯關係，100個不忠的丈夫就會在第100天被處決，正如題目所說的村子裏的每個丈夫都欺騙過自己的妻子。
A riddle about pirates sounds complicated but the answer is in fact quite simple.
有一個關於海盜的謎題，雖然聽起來很複雜，但答案實際上很簡單。
You’re the captain of a pirate ship, and your crew gets to vote on how the gold is divided up.
你是一艘海盜船的船長，你的船員正在投票決定如何分配收穫到的金子。
'If fewer than half of the pirates agree with you, you die. How do you recommend apportioning the gold in such a way that you get a good share of the booty, but still survive?
”如果少於半數的人支持你，你就得死。所以你會怎麼建議把金子分配得自己既能獲得很好的收益，還能倖免於難呢？”
The solution is to share 51 per cent of the treasure.
答案是分享金子的51%。
Another logic puzzled candidates were given to solve was: 'How many times a day do the hands of a clock overlap?'
另外還有一個利用邏輯解決的問題：“一天內時鐘的指針重合多少次？”
The hands overlap once an hour, but 11 times in 12 hours and 22 times in a day. This is because the overlap at 12 has already been accounted for. The overlaps occur at 12, 1.05, 2.11, 3:16, 4:22, 5:27, 6:33, 7:38, 8:44, 9:49 and 10:55 in the morning and after midday at 12, 1.05, 2:11, 3:16, 4:22, 5:27, 6:33, 7:38, 8:44, 9:49 and 10:55.
指針每小時重合一次，但每12小時重合11次，每天重合22次。這是因爲指針在12點的重合早已計算在內了。指針會在早上12點，1點05分，2點11分，3點16分，4點22分，5點27分，6點33分，7點38分，8點44分，9點49分以及10點55分，以及午後12點，1點05分，2點11分，3點16分，4點22分，5點27分，6點33分，7點38分，8點44分，9點49分，10點55分重合。
9 OF GOOGLE'S TOUGHEST BANNED QUESTIONS
9個被否決的Google面試難題
have to get from point A to point B. You don’t know if you can get there. What would you do?
1. 你必須從A點走到B點，但你不知道你能不能達到那裏，你會怎麼做？
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?
2. 你的身高被縮至硬幣大小，你的體重也相應按比例減少到維持身體的原始密度。然後你被扔進了一個空的玻璃攪拌器，攪拌刀片將在60秒後開始轉動。你會怎麼做？
ine you have a closet full of shirts. It’s very hard to find a shirt. So what can you do to organize your shirts for easy retrieval?
3.想象你有一個裝滿襯衫的櫃子。你很難找到一件合適的襯衫。因此你如何整理這些襯衫以便尋找？
ain the significance of 'dead beef'
4. 解釋一下“dead beef”的意義。
much should you charge to wash all the windows in Seattle?
5.把西雅圖所有的窗子都洗一遍要花多少錢？
you look at a clock and the time is 3:15, what is the angle between the hour and the minute hands?
6.如果你看了一下鐘錶，時間顯示3：15，那麼時針與分針之間的夾角是多少？
is the probability of breaking a stick into 3 pieces and forming a triangle?
7.把一根棍子折成3份剛好能拼成一個三角形的機率是多少？
method would you use to look up a word in a dictionary?
8.你會採用什麼方法在字典裏查找一個單詞？
9.A man pushed his car to a hotel and lost his fortune. What happened?
9. 一個男人把車推到酒店裏卻把財產丟了。發生了什麼事？
