Commonly Used Brain Teasers Top Companies Ask in Job Interviews

Author: diedeschool | Posted: 21.04.2012

Like any muscle in the body, the brain needs constant exercise to keep it healthy. Brain teasers are a fun way to do that. They improve your way of thinking, enhance memory, and help you see things from a different perspective. In short, brain teasers can make you a more interesting person.

Many companies who thrive on creativity often include brain teasers in their job interviews. Through brain teasers, the company gauges a person’s problem-solving skills, cognitive flexibility, working memory, decisiveness, and emotional quotient (EQ). Do you want to know if you’ve got what it takes to be the CEO of an upstanding tech company? Then try answering these brain teasers by yourself.

Q: Why are manhole covers round?

A: The reason for the circular shape of manhole covers is, quite simply, so that they don’t fall in. manufacturers build manhole covers to have a smaller sized lip upon which they rest. Whatever which way you rotate it, a manhole cover will never go through the smaller-sized lip.

Q: How many times do the clock’s hands overlap in one day?

A: Twenty two times a day if you only count the overlapping of the minute hand and the hour hand. The two hands are like horses racing each other around a track. Every time the minute hand catches up with the hour hand, we get an overlap. If you were to include all three hands of a clock, overlapping will only occur two times (midnight and noon).

Q: A man pushed his car into a hotel and lost his entire fortune. How did that happen?

A: If you’re thinking of actual things, then you’ll never guess the answer. This is a brain teaser related to the game of Monopoly. A car is a Monopoly piece, and putting it on a property owned by someone else will cost you a lot of money, and maybe everything you have left in the game. Fun brain teasers usually aren’t grounded in reality, so it is best keep an open mind for other possibilities.

You’ve probably heard of these brain teasers for adults before, but knowing that they could be the only thing keeping you from your dream job certainly adds a twist to solving them. Almost every newspaper and magazine has a section dedicated to brain teasers. These activities are very important to activate your mind, so do your best in solving them.

You will find plenty of websites that have brain teasers for kids of all ages too. If you’d like to check one out, a good site to visit will be kids.niehs.nih.gov.

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