谷歌曾在美国《麻省技术评论》、《LinuxJournal》、《Mensa》、《今日物理》等几本专业杂志上，刊登了一份谷歌实验室能力倾向测试。试题开头，蛊惑地写着尝试一下！把答案寄回谷歌，你有期望去谷歌总部参观，并成为大家其中一员。对于有志于在谷歌工作的职场人士和学生，这类题目或许能帮你揣摩一下谷歌的心思。
1. Solve this cryptic1 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 seasonality2.
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 maze3 of twisty little passages, all alike. There is a dusty lapTOP here with a weak wireless4 connection. There are dull, lifeless gnomes5 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 谷歌, tell the lead gnome6 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 谷歌, you discover that your cubicle7 mate wrote the textbook you used as a primary resource in your first year of graduate school. Do you:
A) Fawn8 obsequiously9 and ask if you can have an autograph.
B) Sit perfectly10 still and use only soft keystrokes to avoid disturbing her concentration.
C) Leave her daily offerings of granola and English toffee from the food bins11.
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 谷歌's over-arching philosophy?
A) I'm feeling lucky
B) Don't be evil
C) Oh, I already fixed12 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 icosplayahedron with one of three colors on each face?
What colors would you choose?
9. This space left intentionally13 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 derived14?
13. Which of the following is NOT an actual interest group formed by 谷歌 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 optimal15 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 perimeters16?
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=6. Notice that f=1. What is the next largest n such that f=n?
18. What's the coolest hack17 you've ever written?
19.'Tis known in a 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 knack18 uncanny, of making your choices contain all K of mine. Oh, for pedantry19: 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) 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
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 谷歌 Labs.
