华尔街面试中11个最激怒人的问题

 　　Here are some of the best interview questions that have been asked at Wall Street firms。

　　以下是华尔街面试中曾被问到的一些犀利问题。

　　Some tests are to see how well you solve problems analytically¹。有些旨在测试你分析解决问题的能力。

　　Others are harder: tests to see how well you'll "fit" with the firm. Ie. Do you have the right personality?

　　其他就难以搞定了。其旨在判断你是否适合公司，你的个性是否是他们想要的？

　　1. CITIGROUP: "What is your strategy at table tennis?"

　　花旗集团：你打乒乓时采用什么战略？

　　2. HEDGE FUND: "Tell me a clean joke."

　　对冲基金：讲个非黄色笑话吧。

　　3. APITAL ONE: "How do you evaluate Subway's $5 foot-long sub policy?"

　　第一资本金融公司：你如何评价赛百味快餐推出的5美元三明治促销活动？”

　　4. HEDGE FUND: "What's the best e-mail address you've ever seen, and why?"

　　对冲基金：你见过的最好的邮箱地址是怎样的？为什么？

　　5. BROWN & BROWN INSURANCE: "How would you rate your life on a scale of 1 to 10?"

　　布朗和布朗保险公司：如果满分是10分，你给自己的生活打几分？

　　6. GOLDMAN SACHS: "Suppose you had eight identical balls. One of them is slightly heavier and you are given a balance scale. What’s the fewest number of times you have to use the scale to find the heavier ball?

　　高盛集团：假设你有8个外观相同的球，其中一个比其他稍重。如果给你一个天平，最少称几次你可以找出这只稍重的球？

　　7. UBS: "If we were playing Russian roulette and had one bullet, I randomly² spun³ the chamber⁴ and fired but nothing was fired, would you rather fire the gun again or respin the chamber and then fire on your turn?"

　　瑞士联合银行：如果我们玩俄罗斯轮盘并且只有一颗子弹，我在转了弹轮之后开枪，没子弹了。轮到你时，你是打开手枪转一圈再对着自己开枪还是直接就拿着我刚开过的枪射自己呢？”

　　8. JANE STREET CAPITAL: "What is the smallest number divisible by 225 that consists of all 1s and 0s?"

　　简街资本：能被225整除，只包含0和1的最小的数字是多少？

　　9. GOLDMAN SACHS: "How many penguins⁵ would it take to surround the North Pole? And give 2 standard deviations⁶ from your answer?"

　　高盛集团：需要多少只企鹅才可以绕北极一圈？从答案里给出两个标准差。

　　10. MERRILL LYNCH: "Tell me about your life from kindergarten onwards."

　　美林证券公司：讲讲你的一生，从幼儿园开始吧。

　　11. GOLDMAN SACHS: "If you were shrunk to the size of a pencil and put in a blender, how would you get out?"

　　高盛集团：如果你被压缩到只有铅笔那么大，然后放进了搅拌机，你如何逃出来？

1 analytically   

adv.有分析地，解析地

参考例句：

• The final requirement,'significant environmental impact", is analytically more difficult. 最后一个规定“重大的环境影响”，分析起来是比较困难的。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
• The overwhelming majority of nonlinear differential equations are not soluble analytically. 绝大多数非线性微分方程是不能用解析方法求解的。

2 randomly   

adv.随便地，未加计划地

参考例句：

• Within the hot gas chamber, molecules are moving randomly in all directions. 在灼热的气体燃烧室内，分子在各个方向上作无规运动。 来自辞典例句
• Transformed cells are loosely attached, rounded and randomly oriented. 转化细胞则不大贴壁、圆缩并呈杂乱分布。 来自辞典例句

3 spun   

v.纺，杜撰，急转身

参考例句：

• His grandmother spun him a yarn at the fire.他奶奶在火炉边给他讲故事。
• Her skilful fingers spun the wool out to a fine thread.她那灵巧的手指把羊毛纺成了细毛线。

4 chamber   

n.房间，寝室；会议厅；议院；会所

参考例句：

• For many,the dentist's surgery remains a torture chamber.对许多人来说，牙医的治疗室一直是间受刑室。
• The chamber was ablaze with light.会议厅里灯火辉煌。

5 penguins   

n.企鹅( penguin的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Why can penguins live in cold environment? 为什么企鹅能生活在寒冷的环境中？ 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Whales, seals, penguins, and turtles have flippers. 鲸、海豹，企鹅和海龟均有鳍形肢。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

6 deviations   

背离，偏离( deviation的名词复数 )； 离经叛道的行为

参考例句：

• Local deviations depend strongly on the local geometry of the solid matrix. 局部偏离严格地依赖于固体矩阵的局部几何形状。
• They were a series of tactical day-to-day deviations from White House policy. 它们是一系列策略上一天天摆脱白宫政策的偏向。