17 Former Google Interview Questions So Ridiculous That The Company Banned Them From Being Asked

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Sometimes the hiring practices of even the biggest and most successful companies can be outright ridiculous.

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There can be bizarre interview questions that seemingly have no answers. There can be standards (like not hiring anyone who attended a college outside of the Ivy League) that will knock a candidate out of the race before he even approaches the starting line.

Google used to be the shining example of these practices. It had high standards and asked silly questions.

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The questions were so nuts that they were eventually banned from being asked. That's right, banned.

In 2009, Seattle job coach Lewis Lin put together a list of 140 questions his clients were asked by Google. We've picked out some of the wildest and added a link to the whole list at the end.

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Future Google employees should be grateful these questions are no longer on the table.