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If you want a job at companies like Facebook, Google, or Apple, prepare yourself for some real head-scratchers.
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With excellent perks, great pay and benefits, and high job satisfaction, employees at the 50 best companies to work for in America seem to have a good thing going.
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But before you start seething with envy, you should see some of the questions they had to answer to get there.
To find these difficult and sometimes odd queries, Business Insider sifted through hundreds of reviews on Glassdoor submitted by people who recently interviewed at these top companies.
'If you could only choose one song to play every time you walked into a room for the rest of your life, what would it be?' —Google associate account-strategist candidate
'Let's say I'm your manager and you get hired at Bain. At the end of one year, what will I write in your performance review?' —Bain associate consultant candidate
'What is the minimum amount of times you can grab a sock out of a drawer that has fifty white socks and fifty black socks to make sure you have two that match?' —Fast Enterprises implementation consultant candidate
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'If I give you $1 million right now, what would you do?' —Google associate account-strategist candidate
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'How would you build Facebook for blind people?' —Facebook product-manager candidate
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'If you had a choice between two superpowers — being invisible or flying — which would you choose?' —Microsoft high-level product-lead/evangelist candidate
'Write a program to simulate the writing of a ransom note given a magazine from which letters can be extracted.' —Microsoft software-engineer candidate
Rachel Gillett is a senior lifestyle editor at Insider overseeing a team that covers travel, home, alternative living, photography, and visual features.She was formerly the visual features editor for Insider Inc. and careers editor at Business Insider.She previously wrote and edited for Fast Company's Leadership section. Her work as a multimedia journalist has been featured on PopPhoto.com, AOL.com, The Huffington Post, and syndicated all around the world.She graduated from Rutgers University with a double major in journalism and media studies and German studies.
