The selection of new employees in innovative companies rather hard; preparing for an interview a few months, as a complex exam.
Apple representatives did not hide the fact that they are important estimates obtained during training in high schools, even if the applicant is already over thirty. And, of course, the company is looking for people who want to change the world. Observers Ain published top most daunting issues and challenges with an asterisk, which asked applicants for interviews in Cupertino. Some of them really sound exotic, and some can often hear and interviews in our latitudes.
From an interview with a candidate for tech support: "Describe the eight children, what router / router and what are its functions."
From the interview with the candidate for the position of Software Developer: "Before you lie on a table 100 coins. Each has obverse and reverse. Of these, ten obverse is up 90 - reversing up. You can not see or find any other way to find out which side of the coin on top.Fold two stacks coins in such a manner that each of them lying obverse same number of coins. "
From the interview with the candidate for the position of Software Developer: "What would you like to do in five years?"
Come on, tell me what do you see yourself in the company after five years.
From the interview with the candidate for the position of Software Developer: "Why do you want to work at Apple and that lose in their current work, if Apple will hire you?"
From the interview with the candidate for the position of Software Developer: "Describe yourself. What excites you? "
From the interview with the candidate for the position of Software Developer: "How to Test a toaster?"
From the interview with the candidate for the position of Software Developer: "If we have hired over what you want to work?"
From the interview with the candidate for the position of Software testing: "Before you three boxes. One only apples. In other only oranges. In the third and apples and oranges. All the boxes properly signed - the inscription on the labels does not match the contents of the boxes. You can open only one drawer, and took out a fruit, without looking at him. How, see what kind of fruit you got, unmistakably, that is what the box? "
From the interview with the candidate for the position of Software Developer: "Did you ever in your career are cases where you do not agree with the decision of the manager, and you argued this disagreement? What are the specific example and describe how you decide the situation, what the results obtained in the end and as the manager you would describe today? "
From the interview with the candidate for the position of Software Developer: "You are a creative person? What creative you think now? "
From the interview with the candidate for the position of Software Developer: "Why should we hire you?"
From the interview with the candidate for the position of Software Developer: "Tell me about something you've done in your life and what is still proud of."
From the interview with the candidate for the position of Sales Manager: "Describe a time when you experienced the biggest humiliation in my life."
From an interview with a candidate for tech support: "What is more important - to solve the problem of the user or create a positive impression?"
From the interview with the candidate for the position of Software Developer: "What brings you here?"
How about, "I need a job" ?!
From an interview with a candidate for tech support: "Demonstrate to me using only voice, how will you show the client that you want very much to help him."
From the interview with the candidate for the position of "family expert": "You seem very positive person. That can knock you off track? "
From the interview with the candidate for the position of manager software: "Tell me about your failures, and what lessons have you learned from them."
From the interview with the candidate for the position of Software Developer: "Describe an interesting problem and how you solved it."
From the interview with the candidate for the position of Software Developer: "Imagine an application like iTunes, which tightens and accumulates a large number of images - which strategy you would have used to get rid of the accumulation of these pictures?"
From the interview with the candidate for the position of chief analyst: "You have been given the bank in which the present mixed with fake coins. You got one of the coins and tossed it three times, receiving combination obverse obverse, reverse. What is the probability that you pulled a real coin, and what are the chances that a fake?"
From the interview with the candidate for the position of Project Manager: "What was your best day in my life over the past four years? And the worst?"
From the interview with the candidate for the position of the international governing: "How many children are born every day?"
From the interview with the candidate for the position of specialist Apple: "When you go to the Apple store as a customer, what feelings you are having in the first place?"
From the interview with the candidate for the position of Software testing: "How would you tested your favorite app?"
From the interview with the candidate for the position of Software Developer: "You have two eggs, and you want to learn as much as possible from what floor you can reset the egg without breaking it. How do you test it? What are the optimal solution to the problem".