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全世界都知道的名词!虚拟世界里最真实的童话!
Google位于美国加州的总部,豪华得像神话中才会出现的仙女岩洞―――门户玄关上,挂着几百盏迷幻熔岩灯;健身球与M&M‘S巧克力唾手可及;知名迷幻乐团GratefulDead的大厨,24小时待命为员工们准备免费餐点;电动滑板车和儿童玩具车穿梭于之间,车上坐着抱满了文件的员工。
办公室里一排排坐着奇装异服的百万,他们手握大把员工股票,市值145美元一股。
梦想在这儿办公?先称称自己的分量!
10月底,Google开始了新一轮的员工……
“书蠹头”拒之门外
想成为Google的编程工程师,最好有点想象力。否则,别说进入Google,恐怕连招聘你都看不懂!
10月底,Google在美国《麻省技术评论》、《LinuxJournal》、《Mensa》、《今日物理》等几本专业杂志上,刊登了一份“Google实验室能力倾向测试”。
试卷开头,蛊惑地写着“试试看!把答案寄回Google,你有希望去Google总部参观,并成为我们其中一员”。
测试只有21个问题。道道刁钻,剑走偏锋。
实打实的数学题,比如“用3种颜色为20面体上色,每个面一种颜色,有多少种组合?你会选择哪3种颜色”。
毫无头绪的主观题:“什么是世上最数学方程式?”
和数不清的自由发挥题:“以下空白,填上点好东西”或者“用你的画笔,改变这张考卷的外观”……
全球顶尖高校的BBS上,都流传着这份测,和各式各样确定或不确定的答案。
“几天之内,Google总部收到了成千上万份答案。”Google的副总裁艾伦。尤斯塔斯说,“其中有很多来自学家、教授和高智商人士。他们无意,只想挑战一下自己的能力。”
重金悬赏“金头脑”
Google拨出5万美元,等待投出答案的天才程序员。
只要冲到最后一轮淘汰赛,Google就用这笔钱,招待他们去Google加州的“梦幻总部”。不入选,也能免费玩一遭,何乐不为。
说到“手面奢侈”,Google当仁不让。
除了善待自个儿的员工,高额分红配股,把他们像托儿所小孩一样照顾,Google每年还在网络上“现金悬赏”,招聘“猎人”编写高难度程序。
去年,“揭皇榜”的程序高手SergioSan,用一个小程序,换来1万美元报酬。
这个阿根廷程序员乐开了花,他在公司工作半年,都赚不到这个数字。
Google惯用“整蛊题”
Google上一轮招聘,今年夏天刚结束。
用的也是一道“科学麻瓜”看不懂的“整蛊题”,而且,堂而皇之挂在硅谷各大地铁站上。9月底,3块15米长的米色广告牌上,简简单单刷着“(在‘e’的数列中所能找到的第一个十位数质数)。com”,没有公司名也没有任何广告词。
花了几秒钟,路人才明白,这是一道数学题。自然常数e(2.718281828……)的第一个十位数质数,是网站的名字。
好奇分子忍不住用Google搜索起答案来,压根儿不晓得这就是Google出的“硬骨头”考题。
不少人后来在规定内,登录上了www.7427466391.com.然而,那不是梦寐以求的终点站,Google恶作剧似的,为“高手”们在半山腰设了个休息的小凉亭。
www.7427466391.com里,贴出一条更令人头疼的数学问题,答出这个问题,能得到进入下一个网页的密码。
跑完数学“马拉松”,7500个“幸存者”走入Google实验室网页,成功投出。最后,Google只要了50个人。“光以广告而论,Google也算得上高段!”
波士顿一家广告公司的高级副总裁弗里茨。库恩分析,“目标人群看到广告后会想,‘这是我的语言,那是冲着我来的’;对其他人而言,广告也使Google的形象大大提升。他们可能会想,‘我是得不到这份工作的了。不过,在那儿工作的人真聪明’。”
Google测试考的就是脑筋
试着证明WWWDOT-GOOGLE=DOTCOM.用俳句(一种日本短诗,每句有一个与季节有关的词)来描述各种模型,借此预测网络搜索流量的季节性变化。
你落入一个迷宫,回旋不断的走廊。手里有一台堆满灰尘的手提电脑,可以无线上网。周围,许多无生命的侏儒徘徊走动。这种情况下,你会如何做?
A)无目的地徘徊,不停走入死胡同,然后被迷宫里面的妖怪吃掉。
B)用手提电脑当铲子,打穿地板直接进入游戏下一关。
C)玩网络游戏《魔法奇兵》,直到电池耗尽。
D)利用计算机,找到迷宫的节点,发现准确出路。
E)把你的简历寄给Google,告诉迷宫里领头的妖怪,你要退出游戏。然后,发现你回到了现实世界。
Unix有什么问题?你会如何补救它?
你在Google工作的第一天,发现你同寝室的室友,曾写过一本书。你研究生一年级时,这本书是你最重要的参考资料。你会:A)求他帮你签个名。B)不改坐姿,却放轻打字声音,尽量避免影响他。C)把你每天吃的麦片和,留给他吃。D)引用他那本书中间,你最喜欢的程式,告诉他这则方程给了你多少启发。E)让他看看,你可以用不到34句语句,完成一个高难度程序。
以下哪个最好地表达了Google的?
A)“我感觉挺幸运”
B)“别干坏事”
C)“哦,我已经完成了任务”
D)“你身边10米以内,必定能找到食物”
E)以上皆是
用1欧姆的电阻,组成无限大的放行点阵,问“象棋跳马步”(“日”字对角点)两点之间的电阻是多少?
下午2点,旧金山著名的湾区。你可以选择去阳光海岸、国家公园的红杉林里徒步旅行,或者参观城市里的文化景观。你会怎么做?
搜索技术的下一个革命性突破是什么?
一个技术研究小组的最优化人员组合是几个人?一旦超过这个数字,每增加一个研究员,平均生产力就会相应下降:A)1B)3C)5D)11E)24.三角形ABC,用圆规和尺,找出点P,保证三角形ABP、ACP和BCP周长相等。
你写过最酷的程序是什么?
找出此数列的下一个:10,9,60,90,70,66?A)96B)10的100次方C)A或者BD)以上皆否。用少于29个词,描述你能带给Google实验室的贡献。
附:GOOGLE的21道试题
Google 招聘的21道题目
brainy test/exam 就是流传甚广的传说中的google 的21道 GLAT 考试了。
10月底,Google在美国《麻省技术评论》、《LinuxJournal》、《Mensa》、《今日物理》等几本专业杂志上,刊登了一份“Google实验室能力倾向测试”。
试卷开头,蛊惑地写着“试试看!把答案寄回Google,你有希望去Google总部参观,并成为我们其中一员”。
1. Solve this cryptic equation, realizing of course that values for M and E could be interchanged. No leading zeros are allowed.
WWWDOT - GOOGLE = DOTCOM
2. Write a haiku describing possible methods for predicting search traffic seasonality.
3.
1
1 1
2 1
1 2 1 1
1 1 1 2 2 1
What is the next line?
4. You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike. There is a dusty laptop here with a weak wireless connection. There are dull, lifeless gnomes strolling about. What dost thou do?
A) Wander aimlessly, bumping into obstacles until you are eaten by a grue.
B) Use the laptop as a digging device to tunnel to the next level.
C) Play MPoRPG until the battery dies along with your hopes.
D) Use the computer to map the nodes of the maze and discover an exit path.
E) Email your resume to Google, tell the lead gnome you quit and find yourself in whole different world.
5. What""s broken with Unix?
How would you fix it?
6. On your first day at Google, you discover
that your cubicle mate wrote the textbook
you used as a primary resource in your first
year of graduate school. Do you:
A) Fawn obsequiously and ask if you can have an autograph.
B) Sit perfectly still and use only soft keystrokes to avoid disturbing her concentration.
C) Leave her daily offerings of granola and English toffee from the food bins.
D) Quote your favorite formula from the textbook and explain how it""s now your mantra.
E) Show her how example 17b could have been solved with 34 fewer lines of code.
7. Which of the following expresses Google□ over-arching philosophy?
A) "I""m feeling lucky"
B) "Don""t be evil"
C) "Oh, I already fixed that"
D) "You should never be more than 50 feet from food"
E) All of the above
8. How many different ways can you color an icosahedron with one of three colors on each face?
What colors would you choose?
9. This space left intentionally blank. Please fill it with something that improves upon emptiness.
10.On an infinite, two-dimensional, rectangular lattice of 1-ohm resistors, what is the resistance between two nodes that are a knight""s move away?
11.It""s 2 PM on a sunny Sunday afternoon in the Bay Area. You""re minutes from the Pacific Ocean, redwood forest hiking trails and world class cultural attractions. What do you do?
12.In your opinion, what is the most beautiful math equation ever derived?
13. Which of the following is NOT an actual interest group formed by Google employees?
A. Women""s basketball
B. Buffy fans
C. Cricketeers
D. Nobel winners
E. Wine club
14.What will be the next great improvement in search technology?
15.What is the optimal size of a project team, above which additional members do not contribute productivity equivalent to the percentage increase in the staff size?
A) 1
B) 3
C) 5
D) 11
E) 24
16.Given a triangle ABC, how would you use only a compass and straight edge to find a point P such that triangles ABP, ACP and BCP have equal perimeters? (Assume that ABC is constructed so that a solution does exist.)
17.Consider a function which, for a given whole number n, returns the number of ones required when writing out all numbers between 0 and n.
For example, f(13)=6. Notice that f(1)=1. What is the next largest n such that f(n)=n?
18.What""s the coolest hack you""ve ever written?
19.""Tis known in refined company, that choosing K things out of N can be done in ways as many as choosing N minus K from N: I pick K, you the remaining. Find though a cooler bijection, where you show a knack uncanny, of making your choices contain all K of mine. Oh, for pedantry: let K be no more than half N.
20.What number comes next in the sequence:
10, 9, 60, 90, 70, 66,?
A)96
B) 1000000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000000000
000000000000000000000000000000000
C) Either of the above
D) None of the above
21.In 29 words or fewer, describe what you would strive to accomplish if you worked at Google Labs.