[grey cells]

Yeah! You guessed right . This one is an interview question , which was asked to me just yesterday(No kidding!A real interview.My first one and Yippee .....I got selected).Thanks for the welcome-back-to-the-den ritual Bona and Eagle(hey!where's the musical troupe )

I hope this one hasn't been done before , at the den.

Interviewer:(in a growling voice )What is the height of each of the walls in this room(interview hall)?You have no measuring instruments or anything else with which you can compare the height.So now what is the height?(eyes riveted on me , glaring)

Candidate(myself ):??????????

[Guest]

"The wall is tall enough to hold up the ceiling."

[grey cells]

"The wall is tall enough to hold up the ceiling."

one , Dale. But the answer's Quantitative .

On asking the interviewer , he said he wanted a QUANTITATIVE answer.

[Guest]

"The wall's are one story tall"

[grey cells]

"The wall's are one story tall"

in the sense of dimensions , not one story high . But yours is an innovative answer.

[Guest]

The walls are the height of the ceiling.

The walls are one story tall.

Which is, after all, a quantitative answer.

(Edit: I see vacian beat me to the punch on the second answer.)

M. Dale

Edited June 7, 2008 by M. Dale

[Guest]

Each wall is one Jarod (unit) high. A Jarod unit is defined as the height of the wall in this room.

This method can be (has been!) successfully used in a university setting.

[grey cells]

Guys . This is an interview and you have only a few seconds to think and rethink and answer the question . And Jarod this is not a technical interview , this is to test your aptitude,

[Guest]

Ok, ok, try this:

8'

Standard inside rooms have 8' ceilings. If the ceiling looks a little higher than normal, it's a 10' ceiling.

[Guest]

Hi! New here and thought I'd give this one a whack. But I have a few simple questions real fast.

First, does the room matter itself and if so what type of room was it? Was it actually an auditorium?

Second, what kind of job were you applying for? Did the riddle have anything to do with the job in question?

If i'm asking too much just disregard, but i'm at a loss.

Edited June 7, 2008 by curve23

[grey cells]

Ok, ok, try this:

8'

Standard inside rooms have 8' ceilings. If the ceiling looks a little higher than normal, it's a 10' ceiling.

Yep.This is one answer I have already accepted. So Kudos to you and LIS.

[grey cells]

Hi! New here and thought I'd give this one a whack. But I have a few simple questions real fast.

First, does the room matter itself and if so what type of room was it? Was it actually an auditorium?

Second, what kind of job were you applying for? Did the riddle have anything to do with the job in question?

If i'm asking too much just disregard, but i'm at a loss.

Welcome to the Den , Curve!!

the type or size of room does not matter at all . This is a big clue .

The job and question are not connected.It is asked just to check your attitude and aptitude.

I have already given a hint(not in the question).And keep an open mind.

[Guest]

The walls are about 10 dead people stacked up. There's a quantity (10 people), and as for my attitude, I'm a people person

[kingofpain]

Volume of room/Area of the floor

[grey cells]

The walls are about 10 dead people stacked up. There's a quantity (10 people), and as for my attitude, I'm a people person

Imaginative , but sorry no.

[grey cells]

Volume of room/Area of the floor

try. Not at all lame , but not the quantitative answer.

[akaslickster]

using eyes and brain logic. or does it have to do with HR, whatever that is?

You could say that it is x many meters or x many feet or x many inches or x many cm or x many mm tall, or oppose that with the square footage of the room or cubic feet that the room has but any more accurate answer will require a measuring device.

Edited June 7, 2008 by akaslickster

[Guest]

the height of the building minus the height of the roof?

Edited June 7, 2008 by Zamyatin

[Guest]

The walls are all at a 1 to 1 size ratio with eachother.

or

Tall enough.

[grey cells]

HR is short for Human Resource.In this round of interviewing, they check your attitude and then your ability to answer the question in a smarter way , i.e. , giving a different answer from the original one , which is still correct.

Good tries , Aka , Zamyatin and Sky.

Try thinking from the interviewer's perspective , like , both you and the interviewer have access to the same materials.

[Guest]

The walls are as high has the customer says they are, because the customer is always right.

[grey cells]

The walls are as high has the customer says they are, because the customer is always right.

Definitely an answer the HR personnel will admire . But this particular HR person wanted a quantitative answer , as I have specified in the previous posts.

[kingofpain]

$7.50 an hour. That's the lowest it will cost you to find the value. In your case, it must be much higher seeing as you make a lot of money and are spending YOUR time to find this out

OR

"Atleast 5'6" "(which is my height - yeah...I know I'm a shorty )

Edited June 8, 2008 by kingofpain

[Guest]

i think..[ask him!]

[grey cells]

"Atleast 5'6" "

you have almost given the answer , just a little bit of explanation needed(could be a little cheeky). Remember this is an interview.

[grey cells]

i think..[ask him!]

Sorry , this is an interview and you are there to answer or you don't get the job.