/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>119237
8 x 8 x 8 = 512

729

>>119237
One broken cube

>>119246
What city is that? I don't recognize the view.

>>119237
One.

>>119237
>>119246
MIND = BLOWN

0
A rubrics cube only has one layer

>>119246
Rubiks cubes don't have interior cubes. 0 cubes left

>>119264
New York, looking west

>>119237
10^3 - 8^3 - 10^2 = 388

>>119306
You're calculating how many cubes he's removing.

What do you work as/what is your company?

The answer is 512..
10 x 10 x 10 = 1,000 total cubes
remove the outer layer means there's 6 faces to remove, each face has 100 squares, that is 600, but don't forget the edge-cubes are shared with neighboring sides.... 8 * 8 * 8 = 512

>>119338
OP here. Hedge fund. Was asked this question by a Russian guy that is a research analyst. He got his MBA from Columbia University and is a CFA

>>119367
Did you answer it correctly?

"Can't i sell you this pen instead"

"Give an example of a time you showed integrity"
--interviewing with alphabet agency lel

>>119403

"If I had integrity, would I really be interviewing here?"

>>119246
>>119246
nice view, what kind of work do you do?

>>119377
Yes, after sitting there for what must have literally been 7 to 10 minutes. Firstly, I hadn't slept at all because I was so excited about getting an interview for once. So I was up already since the day prior, early morning. Second, I didn't eat anything at all since the night before. Third, I hadn't used math since college which was 5 years ago. Fourth, his Russian accent was throwing me off a little, as was his explanation of the rubrics cube being 10 by 10 by 10. I said, I could probably answer this if I had a pen and paper.. and the next thing I know, he takes his pen and paper and slides it across the table to me and expects me to solve it. I then sat there with the pen and paper, as he looked at me in dead silence, for what must have been 7 - 10 minutes. Not a single word was said other than me asking questions... and each question I asked, he just looked at me in the eyes and kept quiet, just sitting there. That silence was fucking KILLER. Not. A. Single. Word. I finally was able to solve it after making the mistake that this guy made >>119306 and he just shook his head "no". At the end of the interview, sensing his disappointment at how long it took me to solve it, I said, "that was a tough question! At least I solved it" and he said "yeah you did"... he was one of 6 people I was interviewed by. Amazingly, I got the job... couldn't believe it

>>119237
>If you have a rubriks cube that is 10 x 10 x 10, and you take away the outer-most layer, how many cubes are left?
>implying that question is hard
kek

>>119412
lol, I didn't make it past that screener

>>119428
I was a partner at a travel company until the other guy ran it into the ground with investments gone awry. Now I am launching my own.

>>119432
what background do you have?

>>119432
>7-10mins

you know you coulda sketched out a rubix cube in that time.

>>119456
I actually got a degree in finance and did some M&A work with Broadridge

>>119457
I know, and I actually did that, during the 7-10 mins time, and I could just FEEL him looking at me like "man, you're fucking stupid". The guy was Russian which made it worse. His facial expression showed that he was definitely NOT impressed with my tactics of drawing a cube for 7-10 mins

>>119237
LOL are you serious? What kind of job was this?

>>119284
So OP is samefagging just to show us his office and how smart he is, right?

>>119488
jokes on him right, got the job.

Easy to say in hindsight but I'd of probably pulled the exact same shit. Including the 2 days leading up to it, shocked you got the job though, I'd of walked out hoping to forget the whole thing, the other applicants must have been piss.

>>119432
Why is 8 cubed hard man

Maybe I'm completely missing something here, but since when do rubicks cubes have 3 fucking sides?

>>119539
10x10x10

10 wide, 10 tall, 10 deep

>>119539
Please be bait.

if you were a vegetable what would you be?
if you were an animal, what would you be?

>>119237
"Is your mom seeing anyone?"

>>119539
You use 3 sides to calculate.

1 side for length
1 side for width
1 side for depth

>>119503
Executive Assistant to the Founder/Portfolio Manager at a hedge fund, who has his PhD and was a practicing MD until he started the fund

>>119510
I was shocked I got it as well lol. The thing is, they told me that my position wasn't exactly something that was planned, that I could make of it what I wanted. The PM/founder had been thinking about having someone as an "EA", but didn't make any hiring posts for it on job sites or write out what the duties would be. They said it would be a standard 3 month evaluation. At the end of the 3 months, they let me go. They said that they don't see me doing the work that I was doing, that they know I'll be doing much bigger and better things. They also said that everything they said great about me at the beginning when they first hired me, still stood true. They learned that they need to delegate tasks better, and that they don't need an EA within the company. I said "alright, so do I get all of the stuff ready to give to the person who will be replacing me?" They said "nobody is going to replace you, if we were going to replace you, it would be with you, we're simply ending this role within the company." They said they'll give me great references, and for me to seriously think about what I am doing with my career, because I am much better than an EA

>>119237

If you take the outer most layer from a rubik's cube, you're left with nothing but the interior devices that are used to rotate the cubes.

OP's boss asked a trick question and had 6 retards try exceptionally hard to answer a maths question without considering the practicality of it in the first place.

>>119671
>8x8x8
>exceptionally hard

Not saying I could in an interview environment but if one would have Rainman answered it can't imagine it'd look poor

>>119604

>>119671

maybe they just hired you to see if you were that fucking dumb in everyday situations, you know, for comedy effect

when they realized you weren't, they let you go

>>119503
why are you loling and asking if it is serious? you think it is too easy of a question? too hard? or what?

>>119237
>>119246
Chairman you giant samefag, pretending to be two different people.

>>119604

I usually tell my one night stands the same sort of things right before I kick them out.

>p-please dont write bad things about working here on the Internet. We want the people who are actually worth a shit to want to work here!

>>119699

This shit isn't even rainman level. Already this thread has like 3 different interpretations and answers based upon the different interpretations of the question. It's not hard to calculate 8x8x8 in your head.

I digress, this isn't about me dickswinging my probably-about-average-intellect, but moreso about hard questions during interviews.

All of my jobs have been entry level, and the hardest question i've had is "sell me this". Both were in sales based jobs, one face to face, one telemarketing. Both left me rather anxious to answer, but I got both jobs regardless.

OP WORKS IN NEW YORK AND TORONTO

also gives great interview tips

>>119237
>>119246
>>119284
>>119496
>>119720
samefag?

>>119720
>>119774
If he really is a chairman/ceo, I guess he can do whatever he wants

>>119284
Can't we figure out what building this guy is in and then narrow down the company?

>>119893
Probably, but why waste your time in shit like that?
Back to >>>/b/ with that shit. If he wants to provide info, he will

I just had an interview 2 days ago and they handed me a piece of paper with a bunch of test questions in my field of study. Shit that I hadn't seen for like two years, so I was probably fucking up horribly but I somehow managed to land the job.

>>119237
"how many skis are there in austria"
fucking hell

Do you want a coffee?
(I don't drink coffee)

>>119562

>Pizza

Idk for the second one

>>119562
>if I were a vegetable I'd have my mum pull the plug
>I'm already an animal; the best animal, in my opinion

I got these in a dropbox phone interview:

>You have two buckets, one holds 3 litres and the other holds 7 litres. How do you get 5 litres exactly if you have nothing to measure with?

>If two painters take two hours to pain two walls, how many painters would you need to paint 12 walls in 18 hours?

>My special skill is that I can throw an M&M into the air and catch it in my mouth, what is your special skill?

I also remember seeing someone on Glassdoor claiming they got this question off them:
>you have two children, aged 5 and 8. Explain the concept of prime numbers to them

>>120000
>Pizza
>Vegetable
>Quads

>>120129
>My special skill is that I can throw an M&M into the air and catch it in my mouth, what is your special skill?
>& if in person
>& if interviewer is really hott
>I can suck the M&M out of your mouth using just my mouth
>mfw hired and hott office sex every day

>>120174
It was a dude
On the phone

I'm not sure the job was worth that tbh m8

>>120129
1) fill up the three liter and dump it into the 7 then fill the 3 liter bucket 2/3rds full and drop it in the 7?
2) 9?
3) twirl a pencil

>>120234
>1) fill up the three liter and dump it into the 7 then fill the 3 liter bucket 2/3rds full and drop it in the 7?

It has to be 5L exactly, how do you know you're filling up the 3L 2/3 full if you have nothing to measure with?

>>120260
Fill 7 with 3 three times, empty 7, pour remaining 2 into 7, fill 7 with 3.

>>120260
Fill up and dump the 3L into the 7L twice. Then fill up the 3L again and top off the 7L. Now you're left with 2 in the 3L. Dump out all the water from the 7L, dump the 2 from the 3L into the 7L, then fill up the 3L again and dump it into the 7L.

chem engineer here

3L+7L=10L (HMMM HOW TO GET 5L?)

use approx half each container...lel

>>119285
son of a bitch, he's right...

>>120129
neat questions

fill the 3 liter to full and pour into the 7 liter, do this again, now the 7 liter bucket has 6 liters, fill the 3 liter bucket to full again and pour as much as you can without spilling into the 7 liter, now the 3 liter bucket has 2 liters, pour the contents of the 7 liter into the drain and fill it with the 2 liters remaining in the 3 liter bucket, then fill the 3 liter bucket to full and add to the 7 liter bucket, 2+3=5

the painters must paint two thirds of a wall per hour, so that comes to... 8 painters

I don't know, I can make good chilli

if you have 2 pairs of shoes how many shoes do you have? how many shoes are you both wearing? 4! that's right, now imagine you had 3 feet, that would be funny wouldn't it, how many shoes would you have? 1, 2, 3 and then... 4, 5 and 6, that's right. so if you both had 3 feet you would have 6 shoes, but really you have 4. Now answer this question, what is between 4 and 6? 5. So how many feet would you need for there to be 5 shoes? It can't be done. And that is why 5 is a prime number, 2 and 3 are also prime numbers, they are on their own

how did I do?

>>120129
oh fug, the painters do 0.5 walls an hour, so its 16, fug

in the trash I go

>>120565

16 painters? In 2 hours 16 painters will paint 16 walls, you dun goof'd m8

>>120234
>>120546
>>120565
>9
>8
>16
lel

think guys. if 2 painters can paint 2 walls in 2 hours. In 18 hours those 2 can paint 18 walls.

the answer is 1.3333 painters, or 2 because you can't have fractions of a person

>>120618
2 painters paint 6 walls. Then you hire 1 to paint the next 6.

You're dumb too.

Why should we hire you?

>>120635

Why would you hire 3 people to do 1.3 people's worth of work?

>>120635
>>120635
>You're dumb too
kek

why not hire 18 painters, get the job done in 2 hours, then tell them to leave?
1.33 is the right answer, deal with it m8 :^)

>>120129

>You have two buckets, one holds 3 litres and the other holds 7 litres. How do you get 5 litres exactly if you have nothing to measure with?

Fill the 3L bucket and pour into the 7L
Fill 3L bucket again and pour into 7L
Fill 3L bucket again, fill 7L you have 2 L left in 3L
Empty 7L, pour remaining 2 L into 7L
Fill 3L and pour into 7L, you now have 5litres in the 7L

>If two painters take two hours to pain two walls, how many painters would you need to paint 12 walls in 18 hours?

still 2
on painter paints 1 wall in two hours or 9 walls in 18 hours

>>119246
Wanna give me a job? I'm the next Bernays, I have eidetic memory (90% retention), amazing at SEO, and have a notebook of million dollar ideas that doesn't only outline the product but how to make maximum amount of money from it and how to advertise it to make it succesfull.

If you dont want any product ideas, I'm well read, and an excellent negotiator/contrarian. I have just about every fallacy memorized, have debated actual intellectuals like Dawkins, and I'm good at statistics and investment logic.

>>120718

Do you honestly think a CEO would have time to troll 4chan (or am I being trolled by you)? I know everyone thinks the 1% just sits around and counts their money but it's not really that simple

The dude is just a rich kid who took a picture from his dad's office building or something

How many barber shops are there in the United States? No calculators.

>>119893
board is too slow, not yet it can't

>>120746
CEOs have free time they just carry their PDA/Phone with them. But even if I am being trolled worth a shot.

>>119539
>what is 3-dimensional reality

>>120718
Are you in NY?

>>120878
Will be in the fall

>>119893
>use ratios to find distance to building
>Use trig to identify which floor
>use shadow shapes and sizes alongside estimated time of day to find which room #
>call every pizza deliver service in the city to that office
>That will be $2499.99 sir, plus tip

>>121004
It is funny you bring up pizza. I actually know the owners of the two local pizza places. Well, one of the places shut down. The other is still up and running. The one that shut down, they used to give me free pizza every day. They were some nice guys.

>the most difficult interview question you've been asked
"Are you willing to try anal?"

>>120610
>>120618
I rushed it, as though I were in an interview. Yes, I admit I made a mistake and I need to remember to stick to the method when doing math.

Though if I did it on paper 100% of the time I'd get it right, every time.

required work rate = 12 walls per 18 hours = 2/3

workers work at 0.5 walls per hour so you'd need 2

Rubik cubes are only composed of an external layer. So if you remove all of those you'd be left with 0 blocks.

>>121030

Sorry to get a little off topic, but is NYC pizza really good?

Most difficult question I've been asked is a pretty common one: Why should we hire you? It's a perfect in to sell yourself but I somehow always manage to come across as forced and awkward. I would rather have: "So, tell me about yourself."

>>121067
The only pizza I've ever tasted has been from New York and from Toronto. The pizza here in New York is something that I really enjoy eating. The 99 cent ones aren't that bad either, and frankly, some of them come quite close to the quality of taste that the $2.50/slice ones possess. The only thing that is really different between the 99 cent ones and $2.50 ones is the thickness of the dough, the 99 cent ones tend to be a little bit thinner than the $2.50 ones. But yes, the taste is pretty good with either. If you ever come to NY, try one from a pizza shop that isn't a franchise (ie: don't have pizza from pizza hut, dominos, etc)

>>119237
Which inventory system is most tax efficient in a time of rising prices.

The answer is LIFO.

What's your opinion on race?

President Obama gets asked a computer science question:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4RRi_ntQc8

>>119671
That's stupid. If you dont count the interior then it's not a 10x10x10 cube at all.

Try this one, If you have an apple that is 1 lb and you take 1 bite out of it, how long does it take to mow my lawn?

>>121213
>Try this one, If you have an apple that is 1 lb and you take 1 bite out of it, how long does it take to mow my lawn?

speaking of stuff like that has anyone here been asked non sequitur like questions at interviews

>>120639
'Cus im da bes

>>120129
My answers:
Fill 7, pour in 3, 4 left in 7
empty 3, pour 7 until 3 is full, 1 left in 7
empty 3, pour 7 in 3, 1 left in 3, fill 7, pour in 3, 5 left in 7
>2 painters = 2w/2hr => 2 painters with 18 hours do 18 walls which means they can do 12 (whereas 1 can only do 9)
>I can do magic tricks with cards

>>119246
>Implying it's hard to just go up to a window and claim there's an office behind it.
No one cares you fucking tripfag
>>>/leddit/

>>119893
identifying the building is not too difficult, pic was obviously taken from empire state building. between floors 50 and 60 just by looking at it.

What was the answer to OP's question?

"what is it that you're actually passionate about?"

>>119281
>>119285
Thank you, I was just about to post that.

Man, I haven't done problem solving like this since I left school. Petition to make this a regular thread on /biz/ so we can all sharpen up for our job interviews.

>>120646

You're only hiring two. One does the job for 12 hours, the other for six. 1.3 is a stupid answer because it's impossible.

>>121031
I want my office to look exactly like that just so people freak out subconciously

>>120129
>fill both buckets up halfway and add the 1.5L to the 3.5L, I'd also acknowledge that there's a more complex answer where you pour one into the other etc but my solution is quicker and doesn't waste any water.

> 1.333 painters, so two. one can take a break for a bit. their working rate is 1 wall per hour per painter.

>I can memorize dates and facts and numbers and things without having to try at it, i've never needed revision methods or anything for exams before.

>I'd draw a big table of all the numbers from 1-100. then i'd ask them to count out the 2x table. then the threes. then the fours. as they went i'd cross off each number. Then after the primes were left i'd explain that's how primes work, they're numbers that aren't part of any times tables. they're only divisible by themselves and 1. also this method helps them to learn basic multiplication and times tables, which they should have learned in school by now.

wud u hire me nao pl0x

>>121050

workers work at at rate of 1 wall per hour.

>>121031
so am I like the only fucking male in the world who hasn't seen this video? I feel so god damn left out, damnit.

>>121202
"we've got our spies in there"

oh the irony.

>>123657
>>123657
That's not irony, that's foreshadowing.

>>123682
>imply he wasn't in the loop from the getgo

>>119237
>>119246
OP made this thread to make a tripcode popular on an anonymous image board.

>>119237
0

a rubix cube only has one layer, its plastic underneath

>>123875
OP is the CEO of the empire state building? how cool is that

what job are you all applying for? accounting?

Why would you need to know the answer to half of these questions on the spot? What does knowing the answer even prove?

>>123875
He's looking at One Penn Plaza which is 57 stories tall. So it's safe to assume he's around that floor.

>>123911
>filename

>>123504
Same. What the fuck I still don't understand this

>>123916
That you aren't just another idiot with a degree.

>>123916
some interviewers ask these "off topic" questions in an attempt to appear clever or deep, or act as if knowing "what kind of animal you would be" somehow helps them determine whether you are fit for the job.

The reality is these questions are pointless and stupid, unless you are being interviewed by Freud.

interviews are to determine that you are personable, have a decent appearance (care about how you look and smell) and to ask about anything your resume didn't fill or left open.

asking trick questions - what does this determine? If the Russian in OP was looking for maths logic, then fine. If he wanted them to realise rubics cubes have only 1 layer, maybe we weren't all autistic kids who spent our childhood playing with rubics cubes. Dumb question.

the bucket question applies maths logic, but again, buy a 5L bucket for like 2$, get the right tool for the job instead. Stupid question.

if you interview for a PA job and they ask these questions to see if you can "think out of the box", what a fucking joke. Thinking differently isn't going to make you a better PA.

some (all) employers just do this because other people are and it just starts a cycle of stupidity. If you are ever interviewing people, don't beat around the bush with dumb questions - ask direct questions to get what you need to know, have a friendly chat at the beginning so you know they aren't retarded or socially awkward, and if you want them to exhibit a particular skill, give them an ordinary question to solve. All the rest you're really wasting your time (7-10 minutes of silence, really?) and potentially screening employees out because they said "falcon" when the bird you were looking for was "hawk" even though they may otherwise be exceptional employees.

>>123990
Back room casting couch.

>Tell me about yourself

>>120129
Pour one into the other assuming bucket can hold 10 gallons, halve it
2 painters if they have to work the whole time, 1.333 painters per hour otherwise
I would first explain the concept of multiplication and division, then state that some numbers can not be divided evenly

>>125052
>What is your biggest accomplishment
why would you ask this of a 15 year old looking for his first summer job?

a decade later and i still remember the anxiety

>>121213
top haha 2014

have you really been given this question? or one like this?
how did you respond

im a very well composed person, but i cannot see myself not laughing if i heard this in an interview

"tell me a joke"

>>125099
>Aristocrats

>What is your most proud accomplishment

>I see here you have some...inactivity the past 3 or so years. What were you doing?

>>125115
I was asked this and it caught me off guard.

After a few uhhs and umms, I used graduating college. Needless to say, I didn't get an offer.

>Tell me about a time that you were a leader and failed to meet your goal

Absolutely baffling. I still don't have a good answer 2 years later.

>>125803
>I wanted to make a omelet
>I lead myself to the kitchen
>I had no eggs

>>125808

I had to being up highschool basketball team

>mfw I didn't play basketball

Why do they force you to lie? Are they just looking for the best liars?

>>125803
I'd probably use an example of leading a team but we didn't reach the goal because of someone else's fault (out of my control).

Example: we had a group presentation to the board and I delegated tasks equally to all members. However, on the day of the presentation, member X's car broke down and wasn't able to make the presentation.

>>125115
That one time anon rolled 69 and i delivered sharpie in pooper

>>125827
I'm positive most literally just google "interview questions" and print out the first two results

>>125803
Say you are such a good leader that you always meet your goals. Interviewer is an faggit.
>>125808
lost it. Good answer.

>>119699
A rubik's cube doesn't have any inner-layers, just one outer layer.

You could just say "a cube that 10x10x10"

One's a toy, the other is a 7th grade math problem

>>126147
>One's a toy, the other is a 7th grade math problem
neither should be asked by competent HR

"Give me an example of how you've used innovation to solve a systemic problem in one of your previous positions?"

Given time I could probably think of some bullshit, but that's a bitch of a question to answer on the spot, unless you have a real and genuine example of course.

I work for IBM as a database architect/engineer

They began the three hour interview by explaining how the product I'd be supporting works. This took a little over 45 minutes, with the expectation that I interrupt to ask clarifying questions and point out design flaws.

Then the department manager says, "but nevermind all that..." and erases the dry erase board.

He looks at me and says, "Pretend we're Amazon.com. We're just starting out. We have a business plan to sell books and media on the internet to customers, and ship them and deliver them."

The guy hands me the marker.

"We'd like go go global, so it needs to work in multiple regions, and multiple countries. Design the database."

I spent the next 90 minutes drawing tables for both transactional and warehousing data models, web service calls, ETLs, foreign key relationships, triggers, redundancies, idempotency, replication and more ... all the while, the hiring manager are picking apart my model.

"Are you sure you want to do that?"
"Why do you have this third table if you already have these two here? Do you need another foreign key? Won't that be a performance hit?"
"How does this work with multiple languages? Can I switch languages mid-session? What if I speak English and Spanish but my grandmother only speaks Spanish, and I want to help her use our site?"
"The geolocation works well but what about different currencies? You do realize finance and corporate reporting need to use this, right? We're building this so we can make money off of it."

Ruthless.

That was part of the interview. Make sure I can deal with people second guessing me. Make sure I know when to compromise and when not to. Make sure I don't freak out when shit gets stressful.

And make sure I can design a big data model.

>>126290

Holy shit

>>126290
if true, i am impressed, because i couldn't do it. on the other hand i am from a different field and in mine i could imagine dealing with similarly grim conditions; impressive nonetheless. did you get the job? if not, why not? how did they respond after the interview?

>>126402
Yes, I got the job.

I thought I bombed it. They completely picked apart my product model to the point where at one point one of the hiring managers actually took the pen from me, modified my model and was basically quizzing me on simple shit in the middle of picking apart my design.

"Whats the difference between DELETE TABLE and TRUNCATE TABLE?"

"How do you select the second newest date?"

I called my wife and was like "I think I fucked it up" and told her about the session. She interrupts me and says, "babe they talked to you for three hours .. you must have done SOMETHING right"

Got an offer two days later.

I feel like I "survived" that interview. But I succeeded.

>>126402

do you even read cunt.

i'm going to fucking break this down for you right now because I hate your guts so fucking much.

>did you get the job?

RIGHT IN THE VERY FIRST LINE, THE OP STATES IN NO AMBIGUOUS TERMS THE FOLLOWING: "I work for IBM as a database architect/engineer"

SOON AFTER, TO FURTHER JUSTIFY MY POINT, THE OP ALLUDES TO THE FACT THAT HE HAS THE JOB BY REFERRING TO THEM COLLECTIVELY AND IN THE PAST TENSE AS FOLLOWS: "They began the three hour interview"

WHEN USING SIMPLE READING COMPREHENSION BASED UPON THE POSTS ABOVE, I HAVE DRAWN THE FOLLOWING CONCLUSION.

>1. The poster (ID: +DESwWrX) is currently employed at IBM
>2. The poster went through a difficult interview process and succeeded
>3. The poster is a competent database and engineer and could reliably demonstrate this in an interview setting for a top 10 tech company in the world

Plebs like you or I don't even deserve this faggots time, but for fucks sake if you're going to SHIT UP THE FUCKING THREAD BY NOT READING BEFORE YOU ASK SOME STUPID FUCKING QUESTION, then by god you deserve poverty.

Shape the fuck up.

my.Jimmies = rustled

>>126442

You summed it up in your prior post, they were seeing how you reacted to having your product model dissected in front of you. They probably didn't want to hire some ultra-defensive JP (grandma's boy) type motherfucker and you aced it. Congratulations. I wish I had the commitment to learn useful computer skills, I'm starting from the ground level on codeacademy, and all I can do is keep working.

also, your missus is an awesome bitch. Wife her again.

>>126451
Calm down friend. Its an active board.

Everyone deserves everyone's time. I'm going through an insomnia phase so I'm posting on the new board. We're all just having fun here.

>draw a graph representing the power running through a water pump and derive an equation relating to it.
>mfw

Drew what I thought where labels to the axis but then I straight up told them I didn't know the answer. The guy showed me after how to do it and it was actually a ridiculous thing for them to expect me to pull out my ass without years of experience.

>>126461
She means the world to me. She's the woman who encouraged me to apply in the first place.

She puts up with me working long shitty hours in the office and at home, and is my best friend.

>>126479

you don't need my advice, but always let her know that she is appreciated for doing shit like this for you. It's amazing to hear this story from you.

>>126451
i see your point, but just for the argument's sake, you could view the original post in question as follows:
>1. The poster is currently employed at IBM
>2. The poster went through a difficult interview process at some point in his career at some company, his success is of question, especially considering the overall negative quality of the interview detailed later on.

both the following statement and your conclusions are pretty much based on the reference to "the interviewing party" as "they", which i will say is valid, but not as clear and adamant as to make a post as upset and degrading towards my (obviously wrong) interpretation of the original post as yours.

i like how you took the time to show me my wrongdoing in this length, so i thought you deserved an answer.

"Tell me a joke"

>>126485
Okay yes, I was a little more mad then necessary but I disagree with your interpretation of the post we're referring to because of the context of the thread.

http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~jbass/courses/402/402_spr10_sns.htm

using the method of simple narrative structure, the poster described who he was, followed by what the problem (in relation to the thread in context) was, followed by the resolution to the problem and the end result, all of which was a foregone conclusion if applying the correct comprehension to the first two sentences.

I dunno man, I got angry for someone having a different perspective with me and that is a bad thing. Posts like mine are the problem with 4chan. You have an admission.

>>126500
i was not trying to make my interpretation look right or even good, i just think it was not as dumb as you thought it was. as previously stated, i admit i was wrong and i have no problem with that, as english is not my first language and i might not have given the post we are discussing the attention it deserved. don't beat yourself up about getting mad, this is the internet, almost everyone gets mad here every now and then.

>>126508

>english isn't my first language

see that makes me feel bad, so you're at the very least bilingual, which is impressive. I only speak two languages, english and bad english.

You're doing just fine sir, now if you excuse me i'm going to tip my fedora and bow out graciously in to the depths to lurk once more.

>>126451
but did he get the job?

>>122343
>>122976
>>123914
Correct, ESB. 56th Floor. And yes, there is an office behind it.

Here is the moving in/out video I made:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATgNoQphbb8

>>123875
>>123911
no

>>123451
>>fill both buckets up halfway and add the 1.5L to the 3.5L, I'd also acknowledge that there's a more complex answer where you pour one into the other etc but my solution is quicker and doesn't waste any water.
Finally, someone who thinks like me. I was facepalming at all those guys swapping water back and forth. 3+7=10, double of what you want. ITT:Low IQ levels

>>120030
Hired on the spot.

>>119432
Jesus Christ, OP. This took me about 15 seconds to solve with no paper and pen.

>>120129
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ64IR2bz5o

>8 x 8 x 8
>ugh cubing
>64 x 8 ?
>ah fuck it
>2^(3+3+3) = 2^9
>2^8 = 256
>512

I miss my calculator. Fuck that russian guy.

>>131621
All you do is 8 * 6 = 48 * 10 = 480

Now you do 8 * 4 = 32

480 + 32 = 512.

>>131845
All you do is:
8x8x8
64x8
128x4 (at this point you should see where this is going)
256x2
512

>>131864
Cool, thanks for posting this. I'm pretty bad at math.

>>119237
>how many cubes are left?
6

A Rubiks Cube is hollow. Underneath the first layer is nothing except the mechanics that turn the sides. One cube, the center one on each side, is attached to the mechanics and cannot be removed.

>>131864
>>131845
My time in computers made me memorize the 2^x series up to 10ish, so I just go with that these days.

>Do you want this job?

I couldn't help thinking

>No, fuck this place, I would rather get circumcised by a piranha than work here.

>>131436
how do you knows its exactly half? the swapping methods is more precise.

>>120129
>>My special skill is that I can throw an M&M into the air and catch it in my mouth, what is your special skill?
"You call that a special skill? What kind of underachieving piece of shit are you? Fuck this job, I'm out."

>>119246
Are you the motherfucker that tried to start his own /biz/ board when m00t denied you?

Did you ever hire anyone in that jorb thread you started?

>>125068
>"Well one time I got a 50 k/d ratio in Halo 3."

>>125775
"Refining myself into a being of utter physical and intellectual perfection. You 'mirin?"

>>119893
looks like a serviced office.

>>119697
If it's for a real job at a HF and not one of the monkey positions, it's no wonder that most HFs are shit and can't make money.

Either that or the Russian is a crook and needs collaborators to rip off his LPs.

No HF interview should have such a silly question be the most difficult question in the interview.

For a job?
Who is your favorite Shakespeare character?
Although, in terms of interviews in general, when I was a junior in high school, the first interview question I was ever asked when I began college searching was "Tell me what your plans are for the next 20 years"

fun interview story time:

>first time ever interviewing someone
>really nice woman applying for a procurement job
>she's very shy, almost withdrawn, but her resume is great
>she has about a one year gap in her employment history
>I ask her about it
>"I was pregnant and I had a baby"
>oh that's great! congratulations, is it a boy or a girl?
>"he died"
>o-oh o-k

I have never just my composure so quickly, I basically blacked out from the awkwardness

>>132729
>"Is it a boy or a girl?"
>"he died"
>"that doesn't answer the question. We'll call you."

HWAT WAS THE ANSWER TO THE PROBLEM IN OPS

>>132751
>he
Yes it does.

>>123911
What're you doing outside of /fa/ man

>>132793
I hope you're assuming a person's sex based on xir preferred gender pronoun. Check your privilege.

Suppose a female coworker's skirt is tucked into her panties. What do you do?

>hello, how are you?

>>132862
No more than three stutters and no less than two when you respond "g-g-good"

>>132833
Wait until my break and go to the bathroom to masturbate quietly? Report her for sexual harassment? Discreetly inform a female supervisor so that she can handle the situation privately? There are so many correct answers to this question.

>>132833
1. Stroke your dick under your desk.
2. Accidentally jam the tip of your dick against the underside of your desk when your boss appears out of nowhere.

>>125115
When I got this job.

>>120718

>have debated actual intellectuals like Dawkins,
>actual intellectuals like Dawkins

Words cannot express how stupid this is.

>>120375
>chem engineer
>approx
Dude, what's wrong with you, do you want to die?

>>126290
>"We'd like go go global, so it needs to work in multiple regions, and multiple countries. Design the database."
Nigger, that's all they gave you?
That's insane.
Did they at least answer questions?

>>125775
Easy.
"I've been doing some personal studies and been traveling for a while"

>>132711
>Who is your favorite Shakespeare character?
Obviously Porter and yours?

>>119237
i would rather have a 2 hour hardcore detective grilling me than having to go through an online application

jesus christ how horrifying

>>134402
WE CAN MACGUYVER IT

So you Americans actually take some kind of a test in the interview? What does these question have to do with the actual work? Can you really determine a good worker by asking him/her trivial puzzles? Come on, naw.

Coming from a HR manager in Finland

>>136348
our HR managers have the freedom to do so

>>134428
>>132711

I would have said Iago.

>>136348
Our HR people are near worthless. They do paperwork to comply with the law (nothing important enough for a lawyer to do) and handle hiring.

They have their own "games" to make themselves feel important.

>>136348
Arguably, general skill tests are better than nonsense questions we usually get asked

>"Why should I hire you?"
>"What's your proudest accomplishment?"
>"Please don't fire me when you get promoted."

>>123451

buckets not marked whatsoever other than the fact your know their total size means that to get EXACTLY 5 litres, as specified above, you could never measure HALFWAY exactly

the only way to be 100% sure is to go by the filled size of the bucket

>>131436

you're retarded too, and egotistical about it to boot

>>131436
>3+7=10, double of what you want
You can't halve precisely.
It's their way of weeding out all the people who think that they're too "smart" to think about this sort of thing.

>>125115
Finished GTA San Andreas on 100%

>>137839
Seriously? NICE!

>>137945
It's actually really easy, only took me about a week (I started a new game).

>>137962
Always easier when you know how to follow the damn train, CJ.

>>120761

Was that ever asked? I would imagine that the population of 330 million Americans holds roughly 100 million males that would need to get their hair cut regularly, and a barber can typically have a clientele of 500 men (hairstylists aim for 300, men take a shorter amount of time to cut). If each barber shop holds 5 barbers (skewed by Hair Masters) then thats 2500 men per shop makes roughly 40000 shops

>>136348
The point isn't to see if you can do them (although generally if you can't that would be a problem) but to see what you do presented with a problem. The problem is you can't really determine a good worker successfully every time based on anything short of watching them work for an extended period - and even if companies were willing to pay for trial periods, you'd also need qualified observers to monitor work habits. Questions like these are one of many ways people try to eliminate the small portion who can convincingly deceive about their work output, without going to that kind of cost.