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What are some of the best brainteasers that should be asked during a job interview?

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Question added by Nisreen Ahmad , dfgdhj , twst
Date Posted: 2015/08/04
Majed Almutairy
by Majed Almutairy , مدير موارد بشرية , شركة المياه الوطنية

what's your weakness? & what is your strength?,

Miriam Coretico
by Miriam Coretico , Appraiser- Remittance Clerk , Henry Lhuillier Pawnshop - Money Transfer

tell me about yourself, what's your weakness?, what is your strength?, why should i hire you? , what are your career goals?.,

khaled elkholy
by khaled elkholy , HR MANAGER , misk for import & export

- “Seem­ingly ran­dom ques­tions like these have become com­mon­place in Sil­i­con Val­ley and other tech out­posts, where com­pa­nies aren’t as inter­ested in the cor­rect answer to a tough ques­tion as they are in how a prospec­tive employee might try to solve it. Since busi­nesses today have to be able to react quickly to shift­ing mar­ket dynam­ics, they want more than engi­neers with high IQs and good col­lege tran­scripts. They want peo­ple who can think on their feet.” What are tech­nol­ogy com­pa­nies (Google, Microsoft, Ama­zon) and con­sult­ing com­pa­nies (McK­in­sey, Boston Con­sult­ing Group, Accen­ture…) look­ing for? They want employ­ees withbrain teasers job interview good so-called Exec­u­tive Func­tions: problem-solving, cog­ni­tive flex­i­bil­ity, plan­ning, work­ing mem­ory, decision-making, even emo­tional self-regulation (don’t try to solve one of these puz­zles while being angry, or stressed out). Want to try a few? Below you have our Top7 Guesstimations/ Logic Puz­zles for Brain Challenge: Please try to GUESS the answers to the ques­tions below based on your own log­i­cal approach. The goal is not to find out (or Google) the right answer, but to1) iden­tify the logic approach that will help “guessti­mate” an appro­pri­ate range, say + or –30% of the actual answer, and then2) com­plete the cal­cu­la­tions (ide­ally men­tally, but you can also take notes) to pro­vide an estimate. Ready. Set. Go!1) How many times heav­ier than a mouse is an elephant?.2) How many fire­fight­ers are there in San Francisco?.3) How many trees are there in NYC’s Cen­tral Park?.4) How many shoes have you had in your life?.5) How many golf balls can fit in a school bus?.6) In1999, how were these baby boy names ranked by pop­u­lar­ity: Kevin, Jose, Hugh.7) What is the weight of a large com­mer­cial airplane?. The Answer appear below. Again, the key here is to try, plan the steps towards the solu­tion, and do the men­tal cal­cu­la­tions to find a rea­son­able range. That’s the brain chal­lenge. The goal is not to find the pre­cise cor­rect answer. Answers:1) Around150,000. An aver­age ele­phant weighs4,000 kg on aver­age; an aver­age mouse25 grams.2) Around350 fire­fight­ers on duty on any given day, out of a pool of1700 fire­fight­ing over­all staff.3) There are over26,000 trees (of approx­i­mately175 species) in the Park.4) We don’t know (or need to know) how many pairs you have had.5) About500,000, assum­ing the bus is50 balls high,50 balls wide, and200 balls long.6) Rank­ings of baby boy names in1999, accord­ing to Social Secu­rity Admin­is­tra­tion:1. Jose (#30),2. Kevin (#32),3. Hugh (#830).7) For a Boe­ing747: – Empty: around400,000 pounds (lbs), or181 met­ric tons – Max­i­mum Take­off Weight: around825,000 pounds, or374 met­ric tons – For con­text, the weight of an empty Hum­mer is8,600 pounds.

د Waleed
by د Waleed , Management - Leadership-Business Administration-HR&Training-Customer Service/Retention -Call Center , Multi Companies Categories: Auditing -Trade -Customer service -HR-IT&Internet -Training&Consultation

it is about the questions where the interviewee should show his or her skills in solving problems and taking the right action ... It could be also about some mathematical questions and general information..!e.g.:

 

1. What is the sales tax percentage in this state?

2. You are in an important  meeting and a customer really wants to talk to you?

 

muhammad mustafa mustafa
by muhammad mustafa mustafa , Senior site inspector , IBECHS GULBERG

i do work very honestly because i belong poor family so our my carrier i do best for my good life

ahmed alyahiri
by ahmed alyahiri , مدير مكتب، محامي إبتدائي , مكتب المحامي عبدالرحمن الأهدل

I agree with the previous answers.

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