Job interview questions I'd rather not hear

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1. Asked at Blackrock: “You have a birthday cake and have exactly 3 slices to cut it into 8 equal pieces. How do you do it?”
   Answer: Problem-solvers need to be able to think out of the box, and this question is a prime example of that. So how do you do it? Assuming the cake is round, make two cuts to slice it into quarters. Then stack the four quarters and slice them all in half using your last cut.

   Pffft – that would mess up the icing. I’d align the four pieces in a horizontal row and bisect them with the third cut. (I use dental floss to cut cake, by the way)

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