Wednesday, November 17, 2004

Geeks and Haiku

From the Globe and Mail:

Even as its payroll balloons, Google Inc. remains picky about whom it hires, reports The Associated Press. Here are some of the 21 questions on its aptitude test for prospective programmers:

* How many differrent ways can you colour an icosahedron with one of three colours on each face?

* On an infinite, two-dimentional rectangular lattice of one-ohm resistors, what is the resistance between two nodes that are a knight's move away?

* Write a haiku describing possible methods for predicting search traffic seasonality.

I think the job could only be a piece of cake after going through this!. Maybe there's a market for an "Aptitude Tests for Dummies" book...