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Can you answer these difficult engineering interview questions? Most Difficult Do you have what it takes to be a kickass engineer? Top companies like Google, Apple, Microsoft and SpaceX, of course, only hire the top engineers and employees. Aside from undergoing credentials checking, they also do tough screening interviews to get the cream of the crop. Sometimes, according to former interviewees and employees, the CEOs themselves even conduct the interviews personally. Let’s see if you have it. Engineering Interview Questions From Top Companies You’re really a kickass engineer if you can answer these mind bending questions. Try these actual tough interview questions from these top companies. Dropbox Engineering Job Interview Question . You work on the 60th floor of 100 story building. You walk into your office and find a bomb sitting on your desk. It reads 90 seconds and is counting down. What do you do? By Farrel Pinto Microsoft Engineering Job Interview Question . You are on a game show. There are three doors, behind one of which is a prize and the other two is a chunk of coal, and the host knows which door holds the prize. You choose door #1. Before it is opened, the host opens door #3 and reveals a lump of coal. You have the choice to stick with the door you chose originally or switch to door #2. What do you do? Google Engineering Job Interview Question . Pretend 1% of the population has a disease. You have a test that determines if you have that disease, but it’s only 80% accurate and 20% of the time you get a false positive. Your test comes back positive. How likely is it you have the disease? 1 2 3 SpaceX Engineering Job Interview Question . If you walk 1 mile south, 1 mile west and 1 mile north, you are exactly back where you started. Where are you? – (CEO Elon Musk’s Favorite Question) Intel Engineering Job Interview Question . Can you design a spice rack for the blind? How will it look like? Apple Engineering Job Interview Question . If you are in a boat in the middle of the pond and drop an anchor, how does the water level vary with respect to shore? 4 5 6 Wanna know the answers? Click here! 38 E-Commerce, Online Distribution and Management • March 2017