Question: How Much Should You Charge To Wash All The Windows In Seattle?
Job: Product Manager
This is indeed a tricky and bizarre question. And an intelligent guy will answer this question as, $10 per window. As most of the candidates might not know the real fact behind the question that you don’t require to wash anything in Seattle because it rains so much there that all windows get washed by themselves. However, the interviewers look for candidates to arrive at a more accurate answer. So, it is really the validity of the approach that is a test of the candidate's caliber.
Question: Explain A Database In Three Sentences To Your Eight-Year-Old Nephew?
Job: Product Manager
The whole point here is to test the candidate’s ability to communicate complex ideas in simple language. But you might wonder why the kid is involved? Well as you know that you have to put your toys away when you're done playing. So the database out here is referred to put thedata away—as the toys are data instead. The database which can find the right data easily irrespective of the anything the computer can get everything out to play with very quickly, because it's in a database.
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