Google's aptitude test
It seems that Google now have an aptitude test for prospective employees. It's a mixture of creative writing, general tech awareness, and some maths-y puzzles. There are four pages to it:-
Question 17 is fun, but to my chagrin I can't find a more elegant way to solve it than by brute force.
John Dale
17 Oct 2004 09:47
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![Page 1 [cover page]](http://www.google.com/googleblog/GLAT.gif){kind=link}
![Page 2 [questions 1-6]](http://www.google.com/googleblog/GLAT2.gif){kind=link}
![Page 3 [questions 7-14]](http://www.google.com/googleblog/GLAT3.gif){kind=link}
![Page 4 [questions 15-21]](http://www.google.com/googleblog/GLAT4.gif){kind=link}
Very interesting way of screening employees.
You have the link wrong for Page 4, should be http://www.google.com/googleblog/GLAT4.gif
17 Oct 2004, 10:09
John Dale
Thanks for the typo alert – now fixed.
I'm not sure if it really does screen employees, as such; I think it serves a slightly different purpose, that is, persuading people who see the test that Google might be the sort of place it'd be fun to work. So it's as much a clever form of advertising as it is an aptitude test.
17 Oct 2004, 14:39
andy
Does 17 = 3^20/2/10?
22 Oct 2004, 07:08
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