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Griffen wrote:You folks are right, on more than one level...

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However, the point about a race car creating enough vacumn to lift a manhole cover is equivalent to aliens killing birds in AK.

Yeah, I'm pragmatic ... Yes, that was a Microsoft Interview Question ... I worked for and with MSN/Microsoft too, and while there, hired and fired people too
Oddly, I "flunked out" on the first interview, they were impressed and called me to interview again, but for a new position which they created just for me.... which ended up eventually being much more powerful as I later hired fired, trained and supervised people for the position for which I flunked out of the first interview.

(I didn't know that info was on Wikipedia though lol)

From footnote on your link .... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_interview" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


How would you test an elevator?
(Where's my EX-wife?)

How would you explain computer networking to a kindergarten kid?
(Seems like I did that a lot numerous times)

What are examples of poorly designed software?
(Windows 3.0, Windows 3.1, Windows for Workgroups ... how many do you want? I use OS/2, but I can probably name a lot more if you want me to ...)
(As I said ... I "flunked out" on the first interview)

It was fun though, Just for fun, not part of my job there ...I'd take the "answers" to their certification exam questions, and suggest shorter/faster ways to accomplish the same task.... They enjoy people seeing "multiple" solutions to problems.

Dragonfighter you are absolutely correct .... I just quickly threw that out to illustrate a point

I'm guilty of an oversimplification resulting in a misstatement of fact about simplicity, but it got the point across I think..

I need to find a razor though ... a guy on youtube said I needed one to have a right BARE arm.

Occam's razor . The simplest answer is usually the correct answer.

That was probably a "can he keep it simple" interview question ... K I S S
Or, could be how well do you listen to directions and analyze a problem before jumpin' in question.

Some people overthink and complicate things and fail to see an easier solution to a problem.
(My ex-boss did that a lot, usually I'd have to untangle his mess)

Round covers DO roll easier too, that's not a bad answer at all really

Griffen wrote:For all you deep thinkers out there, I had an interview question as follows:

Why are manhole covers round?

This should test your critical thinking / reasoning skills.

Because the hole it fits is round.
It would be silly to make square/triangular covers for round holes now wouldn't it?

Seems quite simple to me .... now if the question was
Why are manholes and their covers round?
I'd agree with the above answers.

Ok ... my turn to ask one ...

Why do gloves have 4 fingers and a thumb shape?