苹果公司面试中最难的问题，试着答一下丨夜听双语
2018.11.4
面●试
“Are you smart?”
宜
挑战
消极
忌
“Are you smart?”
“你聪明吗？”
秋季校招正如火如荼进行着，大学生们一个不小心就面临着3重面试的考验。
单人面、小组面、群面，面试形式可谓是五花八门。
可怕的是，你可能还会遇到过往面试经验中从未出现过的“奇葩”问题。
今天我们就总结了一些不同寻常的面试问题，可以让你至少心里有个底。
苹果
We have a cup of hot coffee and a small cold milk out of the fridge. The room temperature is in between these two. When should we add milk to coffee to get the coolest combination earliest (at the beginning, in the middle, or at the end)?
假设有杯热咖啡和一杯刚从冰箱里拿出来的冰牛奶。室温介于二者之间。问：何时往咖啡里加冰牛奶才能最快得到一杯最凉的咖啡牛奶？（开始、中间、最后）
Product Design Engineer
产品设计工程师
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What superhero would you be and why?
你想成为哪个超级英雄？为什么？
Retail
零售岗
▼
Draw the inside architecture of an iPhone
画出一台iPhone的内部结构
Hardware Test Design
硬件测试设计岗
▼
Give me 5 ways of measuring how much gasoline is in a car.
告诉我5个测算一辆汽车里有多少汽油的方法。
Hardware Engineering
硬件工程师岗
▼
There are three boxes, one contains only apples, one contains only oranges, and one contains both apples and oranges. The boxes have been incorrectly labeled such that no label identifies the actual contents of the box it labels. Opening just one box, and without looking in the box, you take out one piece of fruit. By looking at the fruit, how can you immediately label all of the boxes correctly?
有三个箱子。一个里面全部是苹果，一个里面全部是橘子，还有一个苹果和橘子都有。这三个箱子都贴错了标签，没法从标签上知道里面的内容物。你只可以打开一个箱子，不可以往里头看，拿出一个水果。看着这个拿出来的水果，你如何立即把箱子和正确的标签对应起来？
Software QA Engineer
软件测试工程师岗
亚马逊
Amazon is a peculiar company. What is peculiar about you?
亚马逊是一家不寻常的公司。你有什么不寻常之处吗？
Area manager
区域经理岗
▼
If you had 5,623 participants in a tournament, how many games would need to be played to determine the winner?
如果一场锦标赛有5623名参赛者，你认为需要多少局比赛才能决定出胜者？
Area manager
区域经理岗
▼
If you saw someone steal a quarter, would you report it?
如果你看到有人偷了25美分，你会举报吗？
Shipping manifest clerk
装运清单专员岗
▼
Tell me about a time you had to overstep management to get your point of view across.
说说你某一次需要越过管理层去传递自己观点的情况。
Project manager
项目经理岗
▼
Tell me about a time you solved a complex situation with a simple solution.
说说你某一次用很简单的办法解决了很困难的问题的情况。
Senior investigation specialist
高级调查专员岗
腾讯
Why do you want to work here?
为什么想在这儿工作？
Software engineer
软件工程师岗
▼
What games do you like to play?
你喜欢打什么游戏？
Software engineer
软件工程师岗
▼
Why Tencent?
为什么选择腾讯？
Marketing
市场营销岗
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What’s your favorite Tencent application?
你最喜欢的腾讯应用是什么？
Legal assistant
法务助理岗
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What are the key verticals that Tencent should address?
你认为有哪些垂类是腾讯需要做的？
Mobile business development manager
移动商务发展经理岗
微软
Why would you not join Google?
你为什么不去隔壁谷歌？
Senior Business Development Manager
高级商务发展经理岗
▼
How would you determine if a deck of cards is well or poorly shuffled?
你如何判断一副扑克牌是否充分地被洗牌？
Software Development Engineer
软件开发工程师岗
▼
What did you think about Microsoft's decision to launch Office products on the iPhone?
你对微软决定在iPhone上发布Office产品有什么看法？
Senior Business Planner
高级商务规划岗
▼
The infamous "clock hands" question -how many times do the hour and minute hands of a clock overlap in a 24 hour period?
最讨厌的“钟表指针”问题——在24小时内，时针会和分针重合多少次？
Software Development Engineer
软件开发工程师岗
▼
Explain recursion to a 5-year-old kid.
把我当五岁小孩，给我解释一下“递归”的概念。
Software Engineer
软件工程师岗
谷歌
What is your favorite Google product, and how would you improve it?
你最喜欢的谷歌产品是哪个？你打算怎么优化它？
Associate product manager
产品经理副职岗
▼
If ads were removed from YouTube, how would you monetize it?
如果Youtube去除了广告，你打算用什么方式来赚钱？
Associate account strategist
会计战略副职岗
▼
A coin was flipped 1,000 times and there were 560 heads. Do you think the coin is biased?
一枚硬币被抛了1000次，共有560次正面。你认为这枚硬币是否有倾向性？
Quantitative analyst
量化分析师岗
▼
Estimate the number of tennis balls that can fit into a plane.
估算一下一架飞机中可以装下多少个网球？
Intern
实习生岗
宝洁
Can you tell me a time when you've overcome a problem in a professional environment to reach success?
你有没有在专业环境中为获得成功而克服困难的情况，试举一例。
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Describe a situation in which you were able to use persuasion to successfully convince someone to see things your way.
你是否曾成功运用说服能力让他人接受你的观点，试举一例。
阿迪达斯
How do you handle situations that could cause you to be late or miss work?
你如何处理会让你迟到或者旷工的情况？
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Describe to me your ideal employer.
描述一下你理想中的老板。
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What type of work environment do you dislike working in?
你不喜欢在哪种工作环境中工作？
看完这么多面试问题，脑子有没有被绕晕呢。
不论面试形式怎么变，面试的目的都是从你这里获得面试官想要的信息。这些信息可能与你的品质相关，与你的专业能力相关，也可能单纯只是想杀杀你的锐气。
People who need to make a good impression in job interviews should concentrate on communicating the hard work and effort behind their success, rather than just emphasizing their talent, new research from Cass Business School has found.
伦敦城市大学卡斯商学院的一项新研究发现，想在工作面试中留下好印象的人得注意把自己成功背后的努力和刻苦表达出来，不要只是强调自己多么有才华。
In “Impression (Mis) Management When Communicating Success”, published in Basic and Applied Social Psychology, Dr Janina Steinmetz investigated how people attribute their success in job interviews, and whether these attributions were successful with their audiences.
在发表在《基础应用社会心理学》期刊上的《传递成功过程中的印象管理》一文中，Steinmetz博士研究了人们在工作面试中是如何将成功归因的，同时还研究了这些归因行为在受众看来是否成功。
She found – contrary to what many of us think – that success alone may not be enough to make a positive impression. Instead, she suggests that people should ensure they talk about the struggle behind their story to appear more likeable.
她发现强调成功本身并不足以留下正面印象——这和很多人以为的不一样。与之相反，她建议人们应当多谈谈自己成功背后的磨砺，好让自己看起来更讨人喜欢。
Dr Steinmetz conducted three experiments with participants from the United States and the Netherlands, with people from all age ranges (18-75) and with an even gender balance between male and female. Two of the experiments emulated job interviews (using working adults). Participants were asked to imagine themselves in the role of the impression manager (interviewee) or the receiver (interviewer).
Steinmetz博士开展了三项实验，实验的参与者来自美国和荷兰，各年龄段都有覆盖，性别组成也是平衡的。其中两项实验模拟了工作面试（参与者皆为有工作的成人）。参与者被分别要求扮演印象管理者或者印象接受者的角色。
The “impression manager” was asked to speak about themselves in a positive way and feedback was given by the receiver detailing what they wanted to hear more about.
印象管理者需要说话表扬自己，印象接受者则会提供反馈，表示他们想深入了解的部分。
All experiments found the impression managers overemphasized their talents and successes and did not share the effort and hard work behind them – something that the receivers wanted to hear about.
可以从所有实验中发现，印象管理者们通常过度强调了自己的才华和成功，却没有分享出背后的努力与艰辛——也就是印象接受者们想要了解的东西。
Dr Steinmetz said it was clear that communicating success and talent in job interviews is important but it is just as important to tell the story of the hard work and effort behind it to create a warmer, positive, more relatable first impression.
Steinmetz博士表示，在工作面试中传递成功和才华固然重要，但陈述其背后所花费的气力也同样重要，这样就能创造一个更友好、积极和更能引发共鸣的第一印象。
记住了吗，表扬自己的时候别忘了说清楚自己的努力哦。
你的经历，你的磨难，都是你专业能力和智慧最好的脚注。
今天的节目就到这儿，晚安。
fridge: n 冰箱
architecture: n 体系结构
gasoline: n 汽油
identify: v 显示；说明身份
peculiar: adj不寻常的
tournament: n锦标赛；联赛
overstep: v僭越；越权
vertical: n垂直品类
deck: n（牌的）一副
shuffle: v打乱
launch: v发布
infamous: adj臭名昭著的
hand: n指针
overlap: v重合
recursion: n递归；递推
biased: adj有偏见的；有倾向性的
quantitative: adj量化的；定量的
likeable: adj讨人喜爱的
emulate: v仿真；模仿
主播：拉面
编辑：左卓
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