That's one you don't want to get right too quickly.
Ohhhh! We're idiots.
What?
Take this off the table so we can cut that question.
- Hi, I'm Josh. - I'm Ollie.
And today we're going to see how we fare
with Google's interview questions.
I got our producer, Andy, to scour the internet for some of the hardest interview questions.
- Oh no. - Silicon Valley has to offer.
We're going to see how we fare,
because at some point when this ship sinks,
Yeah.
- Wow. - we're going to have to move on.
- Plan B. - Plan B. Exactly.
- First question. - Google.
You're shrunk to the height of a penny.
And your mass is proportionately reduced
- to maintain your original destiny. - Density.
Destiny! I was like, "What am I reading?"
You are then thrown into an empty glass blender.
The blades will start moving in 60 seconds. What do you do?
You know what I would do, is hop on one of the blades.
- I was just thinking that. - You use it to flipping fling yourself out
of the blender.
Also, that sounds like a terrible idea.
But that size, are the blades that sharp?
Let's be honest, most of the things you put in a blender
are about penny sized,
They don't stand a chance.
They'd definitely get shredded.
If you're the height of a penny.
You just lie down, underneath the blades.
- You got it! Yes! - Job done.
That's got to be the answer.
This one is about juggling interviewees' creativity.
We try to break the electric motor?
How do you break the electric motor? You're the size of a penny and you're in the
blender bit.
You're not in the electrics bit.
Just lie down.
Slip right underneath a blender.
- OK. Next up, Microsoft. - Microsoft.
I like this.
You have six glasses arranged in a row. The first three glasses are empty,
while the next three glasses are full of juice.
Arrange these glasses such that the empty glasses alternate
with the full glasses.
You are only allowed to move one glass.
Obviously, you could just switch these.
That would work, but you can only move one.
- Eureka. - What? What do you mean, "eureka"?
Ok. Very good. Very good.
Just a shame it was from Microsoft.
This is from Google. How many times a day do a clock's hands overlap?
Count for me,
- So it starts overlapped. - That's one.
That's two, three.
This is agony.
Six... Eleven. Ooh! It doesn't, it doesn't
It looks like it does.
No. Because then it's the next day. 23 times.
It's not that, is it? Dammit.
I say 24.
22?
What? Why?
The first one doesn't count.
What do you mean it doesn't count? Of course it does count.
You can't just say, "Oh, that doesn't count."
Next up,
A man died and went to heaven. Everyone was naked and looked as they did
at the age of 21.
He saw a couple and he knew immediately they were Adam and Eve.
How did he recognise them?
No belly buttons.
Yeah. No belly buttons.
Nice!.
That's one you don't want to get right too quickly.
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OK. This is from Google.
How many golf balls can fit in a school bus?
- Have you got a golf ball? - To do the maths.
You actually need to know how big a golf ball is.
Wait, I've got this. I've nailed this. Stand up.
- 1, 2, 3, - We're going to be here all day. Oh my gosh.
- 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, - I don't really understand how this is helping.
- 26, 27, 28, 29, 30. - 43, 78, 29.
You're 30 golf balls tall, ok?
How tall are you in centimetres?
183, 184.
What's 183, 184, divided by 30.
6.12
So that is 6.12 centimetres.
That does not look right.
OK. Maybe, I've done the maths wrong.
All that, for that?
You weren't exactly helping.
Let's make a guess. The closest answer gets into Google.
OK, OK.
Three hundred thousand.
- This is literally, it's like lottery numbers. - Literally just picking out a number out
of thin air.
Three hundred thousand and one.
Dammit. It's bloody five hundred thousand.
I'm absolutely livid.
- Thing is. - This is so dumb.
It feels ironic.
These are the questions I would ask Google normally.
But they have to find the answer somewhere.
Yeah, that's true.
It's their employees.
- They have to know it. - Exactly, that's why they're asking.
So they can answer when you ask.
Thank you, Jared, for that answer. I'll just put that into Google.
Alright, the next one's from Facebook.
You're at a party and there are twenty three people
including you and a friend.
Your friend proposes a wager where you get $10
for every person in the party who shares their birthday with you.
While he gets $1 for every person who has a different birthday.
Would you take up the wager?
This is a classic maths question where they just try
and confuse you with the wording.
I reckon, it's going to be counter-intuitive. I've got no idea why.
I would take the $10 for every person who shares their birthday with you.
For it to be a good wager, you need three people to share their birthday with you
- I believe. I've already gone with my gut. - Within twenty three.
I would not take that wager.
No.
You have a piece of paper that's one millimetre thick.
Wow, that's very, OK.
How many times would you need to fold the piece of paper in half
for it to be high enough to reach to the moon?
Bloody hell... the moon?
Well, obviously you can't hold a piece of paper enough times
for it to reach the Moon.
I don't think it's that. I think they actually want to know.
All right. How long does it take for astronauts to get to the moon?
Three days to get to the moon?
Never been.
Never been?
Never been!
I think they're literally just trying to see
how you deal with a problem that you don't know the answer to.
I would say the answer is the number of millimetres to the moon
minus one.
I would definitely say it's impossible to get a piece of paper
big enough to fold that many times.
You'd just be like, "I reject the question. I take everything literally."
- It's physically not possible. - "That's the kind of person I am."
All right. Let's see the answer.
42. What?
Folding a one millimetre thick piece of paper in half 42 times
would make the paper 4 million kilometres in height,
which is more than the distance from the Earth to the moon.
But the world record for folding paper in half
is twelve folds!
I was right. It's physically impossible. That's what they're saying.
I mean, that doesn't strike me as very smart.
I just take it as a given. It's not possible.
This is from Google.
If you have seven white socks and nine black socks in the drawer.
How many socks do you have to pull out blindly in order to ensure you have a matching pair?
- If you have seven white socks, - So the chance of getting a white sock are
seven in sixteen.
Chance of getting a black sock are nine in sixteen.
I feel like we need to think more laterally, man.
You're blind. You can't see them.
That's the answer.
Problem is, you can't be just lateral. You have to think as well.
Seven white socks and nine black socks.
Alright. Right.
Oh! we're idiots.
We're really, really stupid.
- What? - You only need to put out three socks
to ensure that you have a matching pair.
Why?
- Because there's two colours. - There's black and white.
Literally, you pull out one, two, three.
Take this off the table so we can cut that question.
Personal questions?
If you were to write an autobiography, what would it be titled?
I think we all know my answer to that question.
Once Upon a Time in Carrotland: My YouTube autobiography
which I definitely wrote all of.
By Josh Carrott, available now on Amazon worldwide.
How about you, Josh? If you were to write an autobiography,
what would it be titled?
Definitely not that.
All right, next up.
If I open your browser history, what will I learn about your personality?
I can tell you instantly what you would learn about mine.
- You're into tennis. - I have an obsession with tennis, right now.
I know that you are so into tennis that all of my personalised ads
are about tennis.
- No, they're not. Are you serious? - Seriously.
All of them. It's literally like, "Do you need a 15th racquet?"
No, they're not!
I had a dream you and I were in a sports shop.
And you were like wanting to buy some new tennis balls.
You were like, "Look, it's like 200 psi."
And then you find another one, "These ones are 500 psi."
I'm like, "Who cares? Tennis ball, right?"
- And then the owner of the shop. - You don't want a high pressure tennis ball.
"Sir. Come behind the counter."
He's like, "These ones..."
"I'm not supposed to show you these."
- "2000 psi." - Shut up!
I should say, if you check my browsing history.
My gosh, the spending.
- Oh no. - For this season of JOLLY.
Last up, would you rather fight one horse-sized duck
or a hundred duck-sized horses?
This is the kind of thing Joel calls me up at like 3 am.
I think I'd just go for the horse-sized duck.
Have you seen how big horses are?
Yeah. I'm an adult.
You've ridden a horse?
I have ridden a horse.
- Ducks, though, are mental. - Fell off a horse.
- Got knocked out and woke up - Why is this not surprising?
In a shower in a random man's house.
That is for another episode.
- All right. So, - See you JOLLY soon.
Oh, it's over?
Do you want to say, "In the meantime"?
Well, have you got any questions?
That's normally what you ask at the end of a job interview?
I must say my confidence is shaken.
Let us know in the comments how you fared.
I want to know if you guys come up with anything creative as well.
- Because it fried my brain. - Maybe, we'll learn something
And then we'll all end up working for Google in the end.
Why do I feel like we already are.
On that note.
We'll see you JOLLY soon, guys.
- See you later. - Bye.