Twitter’s great for a bunch of different reasons. For one, you can get up-to-the-second information on the latest happenings from around the world simply by opening the app.
You’re also given an unprecedented level of access to the daily going-on’s in people’s lives, whether it be a family member or celebrity you admire from afar.
Above all else, Twitter’s great at what it’s meant to be: a distraction tool. Users often spend long chunks of their day mindlessly scrolling through tweet after tweet after tweet. And while some are critical of the product’s purpose in today’s world, the fact of the matter is that it’s so popular because it works so darned well.
Credit for the company’s success is due in large part to its employees. While Twitter is seen by and large as a mind-numbing activity, it’s a technology being powered by some of the best and brightest minds in the tech industry today.
The reason why the company has been able to make good hire after good hire is because of their fairly intense interview process. To give prospects an idea of what it would be like to apply for a job at Twitter, Glassdoor.com recently uploaded 100+ questions that were posed to interviewees for various positions at the company.
Think you have what it takes to be hired on the spot? See how many of these questions you think you’d be able to answer when sitting across from the interviewer (questions range from those posed to interns to those applying for high-level engineering positions):
“How would you design a distributed ID generation system?”
“What is your five-year plan?”
“How does Twitter need to adapt in order to stay relevant?”
What is the Unix command to view processes?
“What do you like to do in your free time?”
“What is your favorite meme?”
“Make a function, given a separator that parses a string into a three tuple, or passes a different exception if the tuple is longer or shorter than 3.”
“How many golf balls can fit in a school bus?”
“Why SHOULDN'T we hire you?”
“What would you do if a teammate insisted on going against your advice?”
“What does the 'ls' command do at system level when we type it?”
“Discuss a brand that you feel does good marketing vs. a brand that does bad marketing.”
“Pick any topic you want: a hobby you have, a book you’ve read, a project you worked on—anything. You have five minutes to explain it.”
“What is the last movie you saw in theaters?”
“What changes would you make to the company’s copyright policy to make it more permissive?”
Story via: glassdoor.com
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